Art Library / Animals and Wildlife
Animals and Wildlife
Birds, insects, shells and beasts, drawn from natural history engravings and hand-coloured plates.
24 collections, 5,080 pieces in total. Pick a collection to see the art inside it.
Engraving
Bushy-tailed fox
From Katsushika Hokusai, Hokusai Manga, Volume 1 , scan page 33
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Body feather
From William MacGillivray, A History of British Birds , scan page 107
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Fly with feathered legs
From J. O. Westwood, Arcana Entomologica , scan page 39
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Start with a subject or a set of historical plates.
Creatures
Beasts, sea monsters, shells and insects from early natural history engravings.
Birds
Songbirds, owls and waterfowl, with the eggs, nests and feathers that go with them.
Insects
Butterflies, moths, beetles, dragonflies and bees from hand-engraved entomology plates.
Birds in Colour
Hand-coloured ornithological plates: songbirds, waterfowl and the eggs that go with them.
Insects in Colour
Butterflies, moths and beetles from hand-coloured entomology plates, wings at full colour.
Butterflies in Colour
Hand-coloured lepidoptera plates: swallowtails, hawk moths and the caterpillars they came from.
Shells
Conchology plates painted from the cabinet: whelks, cowries, scallops and nautilus.
Creatures in Colour
Beasts, fish and fabled animals printed in full colour from natural histories and bestiaries.
Motifs and moods
Follow a more specific object, detail or feeling.
Naturalist's Cabinet
Butterflies, beetles, shells, feathers and birds, drawn the way a collector pinned and labelled them.
Shells and Conchology
Whelks, cowries, scallops and nautilus, drawn from the cabinet by the great conchologists.
Fish and Ichthyology
Fish drawn for the ichthyologists: river and sea species, scaled and finned in fine line.
Reptiles and Amphibians
Snakes, lizards, turtles and frogs, from herpetology plates and the ornament that borrowed them.
Mammals and Quadrupeds
Deer, foxes, wolves and bears, as Bewick and his successors cut them into the block.
Fossils
Ammonites, trilobites and shell beds, drawn from the rock by the first palaeontologists.
Butterflies and Moths
Wings opened flat the way a collector pinned them, which is also how they cut.
Beetles
Beetles from the entomology plates, seen from above with the legs tucked in.
Crabs and Lobsters
Shore creatures out of the natural history plates, claws forward.
Horses
Horses under saddle, in harness, and rearing on a shield.
Stags and Deer
Antlered heads and whole stags, the commonest beast in the heraldry books after the lion.
Cats and Dogs
Hounds and house cats, drawn from life by the zoologists and as charges by the heralds.
Snakes and Serpents
Coiled serpents, from the occult emblem books and the zoology plates.
Feathers and Plumes
Single feathers, quills, and the plume badges that stood on a helm.
Under the Microscope
Diatoms, pollen and thin sections, drawn by people seeing them for the first time.
Doves and Pigeons
Pigeons and doves from the great monographs, perched on a branch and painted feather by feather.
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