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Animals

11,205 works

Black and white lithograph of a lion climbing against a rock ledge, with German and French captions on the page.

Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der Säugethiere - Plate 81

Unknown artist, 1824

Hand-coloured engraving of a jay with spread wings perched on a mossy branch, labelled The Jay.

A natural history of British birds - Plate (page 35)

Unknown artist, 1775

Side-view watercolor drawing of a black and green horse-drawn carriage with green spoked wheels and a brass lantern.

Four Wheel Dog Cart Phaeton/Game Wagon (unnumbered)

Brewster & Co., 1850-70

Hand-coloured plate 45 showing four flying insects with patterned wings and long legs, plus a small detached specimen part.

Illustrations of British entomology - Plate 45

Unknown artist, 1828

Colored plate of seven bivalve shells numbered 172 to 177, with scientific names listed in a caption below.

Atlas de poche des coquilles des côtes de France Manche, océan, Méditerranée communes, pit - Plate 52

Unknown artist, 1897

Engraved plate of orca skeleton bones: spine, ribs, skull, flipper bones and vertebrae, numbered for reference.

Ostéographie des cétacés vivants et fossiles - Plate XLVI

Unknown artist, 1880

Hand-coloured plate of a male and female turtle dove perched on a branch, with an egg drawn at lower right.

Illustrations of British birds - Plate 61

Unknown artist, 1837

Colored plate of eighteen numbered moths in brown, yellow and orange tones, titled Noctuidae, Plate 69.

Noctuelles et géomètres d'Europe - Plate 69

Unknown artist, 1909

Hand-coloured engraving of numbered bivalve shells in rows, some showing interiors, from an 1778 British conchology plate.

Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, or, The British conchology - Plate XIII

Unknown artist, 1778

Hand-colored plate of a brown antelope with curved horns standing on grass beside a rock, rotated on the page.

Histoire naturelle des mammifères - Plate (page 192)

Unknown artist, 1824

Hand-colored engraving of a crested quail standing on open ground above a pair of quail on rocks.

Illustrations of the game birds of North America - Plate (page 33)

Unknown artist, 1835

Hand-coloured plate of eight numbered moth species with Latin captions, from an 1776 English insect exposition.

An exposition of English insects - Plate VIII

Unknown artist, 1776

Lithograph plate showing six views of freshwater mussel shells from Lake Tanganyika, numbered 1 to 6.

Iconographie malacologique des animaux mollusques fluviatiles du Lac Tanganika - Plate XXVIII

Unknown artist, 1888

Hand-colored 1774 engraving of a young deer with budding antlers standing in a grassy landscape with shrubs and rocks.

Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur, mit Beschreibungen - Plate CCXLVIII

Unknown artist, 1774

Plate of four numbered bird eggs with brown speckles and blotches on pale green-grey shells, on cream paper.

Eggs of British birds - Plate 39

Unknown artist, 1895

Engraved insect plate showing a large scarab beetle with smaller numbered beetle, pupa and egg figures.

Johann Euseb Voets Beschreibungen und Abbildungen hartschaaligter Insecten Coleoptera Linn - Plate X

Unknown artist, 1785

Colour plate of two bivalve shells, Mya arenaria (191) and Mya truncata (192), with growth lines and hinge visible.

Atlas de poche des coquilles des côtes de France Manche, océan, Méditerranée communes, pit - Plate 58

Unknown artist, 1897

Lithograph of a large femur and a smaller patella bone, labeled Plate XVIII, drawn at six inches to a foot scale.

Description of the skeleton of an extinct gigantic Sloth, Mylodon robustus, Owen, with obs - Plate XVIII

Unknown artist, 1842

Hand-coloured plate of a wood pigeon with grey plumage and pink feet perched on a mossy branch.

A natural history of British birds - Plate (page 39)

Unknown artist, 1775

Daumier lithograph of a horse entering a doorway as a man in a checked robe and nightcap looks on, with city rooftops beyond.

Plaisanterie que se permettent maintenant les chevaux, dans le quatier des Champs-Élysées, No. 523 from series Actual…

Honoré Daumier, March 22, 1858

Hand-coloured plate of two beetles with long antennae, labelled Prionus corticinus and Lophonocerus barbicornis, from 1852.

The natural history of beetles - Plate 24

Unknown artist, 1852

Hand-colored print of a skeleton pouring wine for an old man beside a young woman on a sofa, with a soldier at the window.

The Honey Moon (The English Dance of Death, plate 13)

Thomas Rowlandson, August 1, 1814

Hand-coloured engraved plate of seven bivalve seashells in exterior and interior views, numbered 1 to 7.

Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, or, The British conchology - Plate XIV

Unknown artist, 1778

Lithograph of a female Barbary lion standing on a rock, tail raised, with German and French captions in the margin.

Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der Säugethiere - Plate 82

Unknown artist, 1824

Illustrations of British birds - Plate 69

Unknown artist, 1837

Engraving of a chaotic battle with war elephants, armored cavalry, archers in towers, and fallen soldiers in the foreground.

The Battle Between Scipio and Hannibal at Zama

Cornelis Cort, 1550-78

Hand-colored plate 46 showing four flies with spread wings in red, yellow and black, from an 1828 British entomology book.

Illustrations of British entomology - Plate 46

Unknown artist, 1828

Engraving of the Adoration of the Shepherds: figures crowd around the Christ Child in a stable while angels appear overhead.

The adoration of the shepherds, various figures at night surround the Christ Child

Giulio Bonasone, ca. 1550-60

Lithograph plate of three freshwater mussel shells, two of Cameronia Coulboisi and one of Cameronia Landeaui, from an 1888 st

Iconographie malacologique des animaux mollusques fluviatiles du Lac Tanganika - Plate XXXI

Unknown artist, 1888

Engraving of the Holy Kinship with the Christ Child receiving a bird from the infant John the Baptist among robed figures.

The Holy Kinship, in thecentre the Christ Child takes a bird given to him by the infant John the Baptist

Giulio Bonasone, ca. 1560

Lithograph plate showing several views of globicephalus whale skulls with tooth detail sketches, numbered and labelled.

Ostéographie des cétacés vivants et fossiles - Plate LII

Unknown artist, 1880

Hand-coloured engraving of two crested game birds, one standing on rocky ground and one below among grasses and rocks.

Illustrations of the game birds of North America - Plate (page 35)

Unknown artist, 1835