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Animals

11,205 works

Lithograph of a maned male lion with front paws on a tree trunk, plate 84 from a 1824 natural history book.

Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der Säugethiere - Plate 84

Unknown artist, 1824

Hand-colored plate of several flies with spread wings and a detached antenna, from an 1828 British entomology book.

Illustrations of British entomology - Plate 48

Unknown artist, 1828

Black and white lithograph plate of whale skeleton bones including skull, vertebrae, ribs, and flipper bones, numbered for re

Ostéographie des cétacés vivants et fossiles - Plate LXII

Unknown artist, 1880

Hand-coloured plate of numbered Noctuidae moths in yellow, brown and tan, arranged in three columns.

Noctuelles et géomètres d'Europe - Plate 80

Unknown artist, 1909

Sepia print of an old scholar reading by lamplight in a cluttered study, with a cat among scattered books.

Helluones librorum (Bookworms)

Joshua Kirby Baldrey, November 10, 1786

Grey lithograph plate of a long-beaked dolphin with a separate head study, on cream paper.

Histoire naturelle des mammifères - Plate (page 244)

Unknown artist, 1824

Hand-colored 1774 engraving of a saiga antelope standing on grass, with a frontal view of its head above.

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

Unknown artist, 1774

Engraved plate XXIV showing four magnified views of sloth tooth structure with labelled sections and fine curving lines.

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

Unknown artist, 1842

Sepia engraving of a bearded painter with palette and brushes, beside a cherub holding a dog's chain and a bow.

Guercino Self-Portrait

Francesco Bartolozzi, 1790-99

Engraved plate of acanthus leaf scrolls surrounded by a bird, moths, a dragonfly and a squirrel, from Designs for Various Orn

Acanthus Leaves, Birds and Insects, no. CCCLXXII, plate 57 from "Designs for Various Ornaments"

Michelangelo Pergolesi, April 1, 1792

Grayscale collage of cut engravings showing women, children, and rural family scenes on a tan mount.

Collage of printed elements centered on Women, Children, Family and Rural Life

Illman Brothers, 1862-63

Etching of the Dioscuri horse tamers atop ruined Roman architecture, with a column and arches in the background.

Roman ruins with the horse tamers (Dioscuri) on the Quirinal Hill, plate 36 from "Discorsi Sopra L’Antichita di Roma"

Giovanni Battista Pittoni the Elder, 1730-60

Chiaroscuro print of figures hauling a net from a boat, with two men conversing in the foreground and hills behind.

The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, after Raphael

Niccolò Vicentino, 1540-50 (republished 1609)

Engraving of two mounted figures in plumed hats before an army with banners and a walled town beyond.

The French Forces: Louis XIII and Gaston d'Orléans

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1630

Two ink and wash elevation drawings of rococo chamber organs with carved scrollwork, flowers, a cherub, and a shell motif.

Chamber Organs, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

Thomas Chippendale, 1760

Etched landscape with a rocky cliff, pine trees, a stream with dogs, and two figures, one on horseback, under a cloudy sky.

A Woman with a Horse and a Standing Man

Joachim Franz Beich, c.1700-1725

Brown wash drawing of a man in striped clothing leading two horses across a rocky landscape with hills and trees.

Arabian horses

Johann Georg Pforr, 1797

Ink drawing of a tiered hanging shelf with pagoda canopy, two birds on top, and rococo brackets, with a plan below.

Hanging Shelves, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

Thomas Chippendale, 1754

Pen and wash drawing of a rider in a tricorn hat leading a pale horse beside his dark horse on a country road.

Danish horses

Johann Georg Pforr, 1794

Brown ink and wash drawing of a grey horse and a bay horse with a man in a hat on a country road.

Neapolitan horses

Johann Georg Pforr, 1790

Brown wash drawing of a rider leading two horses along a country road, with a dog and a river valley behind.

English horses

Johann Georg Pforr

Pencil and wash drawing of a man in a fur hat leading two horses past a ruined stone wall in a rural landscape.

Polish horses

Johann Georg Pforr, 1794

Brown wash drawing of a rider on a grey horse at a stone fountain, with a brown horse beside him.

Spanish horses

Johann Georg Pforr, 1792

Mezzotint print of a recumbent lion resting on a grassy bank beside a pool, with a dark cave and trees behind.

The Lyon (Recumbent Lion by a Pool)

George Townley Stubbs, August 12, 1776

Ink sketch of two angular dancers on brown paper, with a cat sitting in the lower left corner.

Two Dancers with a Cat

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1913

Three schoolboys offer charity to a seated blind man with a dog beside a brick wall, with a countryside view.

Schoolboys Giving Charity to a Blind Man

John Raphael Smith, 1781

Engraving of St. Jerome reading beside a resting lion under a large tree, with a distant town and church in the background.

St. Jerome in the Wilderness

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1509

Engraved title page with a central drape bearing the Topographia Variarum Regionum text, flanked by allegorical figures and a

Topographia Variarum Regionum, title to the series of 28 plates

Simon Frisius, 1614

Engraving of two women and a girl building a card house at a table, with a spaniel and scattered cards on the floor.

House of Cards

Jean Michel Liotard, 1744

Engraving of a bloodletting in a wood-panelled room, a seated woman's arm held by a man while a servant and dogs look on.

The Surgeon (La Saignée), from "Trades" (Les Métiers)

Abraham Bosse, 1632

Engraving of a funeral procession of clergy and mourners crossing a cobbled courtyard toward an arched gateway.

Burying the Dead (Enseveliir les morts), from "Acts of Mercy" (Les Oeuvres de Miséricorde)

Engraving of a young man seated at a table with women in an elegant interior, a dog and kitchen beyond, French verse below.

The Prodigal Son in a House of Ill Repute (L'Enfant prodigue dans une maison de débauche, version couvert)

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1636