A hodgepodge of animal art I hope you will enjoy. Eastern quoll from the book The Mammals of Australia: Illustrated by Miss Harriett Scott, and Mrs. Helena Forde, by Gerard Krefft, 1871 Illustration by WS Berridge from The Book of the Animal Kingdom by William Percival Westell, 1910 "A Scene in South America with Rheas … Continue reading Animals in Art: Leftovers
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Animals in Art: Thanksgiving Colors
Just an excuse to share more animal art and wish everyone who celebrates a happy Thanksgiving holiday. Illustration by Ron Brooks from the book The Dream of the Thylacine by Margaret Wild, 2011 Art by Mesa Schumacher Three illustrations from Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1869 From the book Colouration in Animals and … Continue reading Animals in Art: Thanksgiving Colors
Animals in Sci-Art: Scientific Illustrations III
From Anatomical and Zoological Researches: Comprising an Account of the Zoological Results of the Two Expeditions to Western Yunnan in 1868 and 1875 by John Anderson, 1878 From the book The Sea Fishes of Southern Africa by James Leonard Brierly Smith, 1949 Illustration from Annals of the Queensland Museum, 1905 From The Rise of the … Continue reading Animals in Sci-Art: Scientific Illustrations III
Animals in Art: Egypt
Mosaic from Alexandria, ca. 2nd century BCE Courtyard of a House in Cairo by Willem de Famars Testas, 1868 - 1881 Hippopotamus carved from red jasper ca.1550–1070 B.C.E., New Kingdom. Image credit and more info at The Metropolitan Museum. Wisdom 1 by Reda Abdel Rahman, 2012 Cosmetic vessel in the shape of a catca. 1990–1900 … Continue reading Animals in Art: Egypt
Animals in Art: Motherhood II
Above illustrations from Brehm's Life of Animals: Volume I - Mammalia by Alfred Edmund Brehm, Wilhelm Haacke, Eduard Pechuël-Loesche & Richard Schmidtlein with illustrations by Friedrich Specht, Wilhelm Kuhnert, Gustav Mützel, Robert Kretschmer, Wilhelm Camphausen, Ludwig Beckmann, E. Schmidt, Carl Friedrich Deicker, Paul Menerheim, etc., 1895 Hedgehog and Young by Louis A. Sargent from the … Continue reading Animals in Art: Motherhood II
Animals in Art: Halloween
Witch by Jaroslav Panuska, 1898-1900 Illustration by Eric Millen from the book Victorian Macabre: Ghastly Short Stories Bat goblet by Henri Husson, 1909 The Witch by Lionel Lindsay, 1924 Woodblock by Bernard Zuber from the book La Vie Execrable de Guillemette Babin, Sorciere by Maurice Garçon, 1926 The Magic Circle by John William Waterhouse, 1886 … Continue reading Animals in Art: Halloween
Animals in Art: Birds
From the book Atlas de Zoologie: ou collection de 100 planches by Paul Gervais, 1844 Dancing in the Air III by Annie Ovenden, 2015 Mother Carey and her Chickens by John Gerrard Keulemans, 1877 Woodcut from the book List of the Vertebrated Animals Now or Lately Living in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of … Continue reading Animals in Art: Birds
Animals in Art: Amphibians and Reptiles
Fire Belly Newt Sorcerer by Lily Seika Jones, 2020 Frog by a Dandelion with Flies by Jan Van Oort (1877 - 1938) The Toads' Tea-party by Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) Caecilian by Cindy Hitchcock Illustration from the book Marvels of Animal Life by Charles Frederick Holder, 1885 The Incident at Seasalter Beach by DD McInnes Kaplumbağa … Continue reading Animals in Art: Amphibians and Reptiles
Animals in Art: Imagined
Depiction of a walrus by someone who had apparently never seen a walrus from the book Icones Animalium by Conrad Gesner, 1560 Two illustrations featuring lunar animals and landscapes inspired by the Great Moon Hoax of 1835 by Leopoldo Galluzzo, 1836 Sakuur by Keenan Taylor Water Sprite in the Bay by Jaroslav Panuska (1872-1958) Untitled … Continue reading Animals in Art: Imagined
Scientific Illustrations: Animal Parts
Two illustrations from the book Colouration in Animals and Plants by Alfred Tylor, 1886 From Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum, 1902 From The Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1907 Two illustrations from the book Mammals of Eastern Asia by GHH Tate, 1947 From the book Notes on the natural history of common British … Continue reading Scientific Illustrations: Animal Parts
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