Adriaen Collaert

"Piscum Vivae Icones, " Antique Engraving of Fish, Marine Creatures, Seascape

Inscriptions: Bottom, plate: Io. Dom. Campiglia del. / Cosmus Mogalli Sculp. Top right, plate: XXIV Summary/Description: Engraving by Cosmus Mogalli after drawing by Giovanni Domenic...

Hand-colored engraving by P. Fitzer for Dictionnaire pittoresque d’histoire naturelle et des phénomènes de la nature, edited by French entomologist Felix Edouard Guerin-Meneville (17...

Hand-colored engravings after bird illustration by William Hayes (1735-1802) from "Portraits of the Rare and Curious Exotic Birds, with their descriptions, from Menagery of Osterly P...

Engraving by Claude Fessard after Johann Lebrecht Reinold for "Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux d'Afrique" by François Levaillant (1753-1824), published 1796-1808. François Levaillant...

Engraving by Claude Fessard after Johann Lebrecht Reinold for "Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux d'Afrique" by François Levaillant (1753-1824), published 1796-1808. François Levaillant...

Engraving by Claude Fessard after Johann Lebrecht Reinold for "Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux d'Afrique" by François Levaillant (1753-1824), published 1796-1808. François Levaillant...

Wolverine or Gulo gulo.. . Hand-colored copperplate engraving from a drawing by George Edwards from Ebenezer Sibly's "Universal System of Natural History" 1797. . . The prolific Sibly published his Universal System of Natural History in 1794 1797 in five volumes covering the three natural worlds of fauna, flora and geology. The series included illustrations of mythical beasts such as the sukotyro and the mermaid, and depicted sloths sitting on the ground (instead of hanging from trees) and a domesticated female orang utan...

Horses Antique Print Hand Coloured Matt size 30cm x 34cm Image Size 14cm x 19 cm

Antique Steel Engraving Published 1866 by Blackie & Son, London for "A History of the Earth and Animated Nature" by Oliver Goldsmith. Matt siz...

Small Baboon Antique print Matt size 28cm x 21cm Image Size 16cm x 10 cm

Mandrill Antique print Matt size 33.5cm x 26cm Image Size 17cm x 11 cm

With his abstract representations of various creatures, the Spanish/German artist Max Gärtner explores the tensions and interrelationships between reality and the metaphysical, betwe...