Flamingo by Edward Lear (1812–1888) Two woodcuts from the book List of the Vertebrated Animals Now or Lately Living in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London by the Zoological Society of London, 1896 Diplocaulidae by Nobu Tamura, 2021 Illustration from the book The Infancy of Animals by William Plane Pycraft, 1913 From the … Continue reading Animals in Sci-Art: Scientific Illustrations II

The Sorceress by John William Waterhouse, ca. 1911 Roman glass cup, found in Denmark, 3rd century Daniel dans la fosse aux lions (Daniel in the lions' den) by Emile Jean Horace Vernet, 1857 European wildcat illustration by Wilhelm Kuhnert from the book Wild life of the world: a descriptive survey of the geographical distribution of … Continue reading Animals in Art: Wild Cats

Summer Day with a Sow and her Piglets by Carl Henrik Bøgh, 1875 "A Samotherium mother warns an approaching Megalochoerus in Late Miocene Turkey, 7 million years ago." - Dhruv Franklin, artist Wild boar illustration by Ludwig Beckmann from the book Brehms Tierleben, Vol. 3 by Alfred Edmund Brehm, 1900 Linnaeus's mouse opossum (Marmosa murina) … Continue reading Animals in Art: Motherhood

Thylacine or Tasmanian tiger by Joseph Wolf, 1853 Drepanosaurus by Nix, 2014 Male and female passenger pigeons by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, from the book The Passenger Pigeon by William Butts Mershon, 1907 Steller's sea cow by Richard Ellis Moa (Dinornis) by Mark Witton, 2018 Eohippus stamp issued in 1996, painted by Don Balke Sinosauropteryx prima … Continue reading Animals in Art: Extinct

From the book Domesticated Animals and Plants by Eugene Davenport, 1910 Two pages from the book Hounds by Frank Townend Barton, 1913 Artist unknown, inventor FHC Mey, from the book Cycling Art, Energy and Locomotion by Robert Pittis Scott, 1889 Artist unknown Cuttlefish illustration from the book Zoology of the Invertebrate Animals by Alexander Macalister, … Continue reading Animals in Art: Scientific Illustrations

Diana Under the Tree by Hans Thoma, 1878 Resting Goats by Jacques-Joseph Lecurieux, 1840 A Greco-Persian scaraboid, late 4th century B.C.E.Gem: mottled brown chalcedony; mount: gold Circe and Her Swine by Briton Rivière, 1896 William the Hippo, Egypt's Middle Kingdom, ca. 1961 BCE – ca. 1878 BCE Giraffe page from the book Icones Animalium by Conrad Gessner, … Continue reading Animals in Art: Ungulates

A Mermaid by Charles Murray Padday (1868 - 1954) Cactus Cat by William Rebsamen A Moonlight Phantasy by Hilda Hechle, ca. 1930 Water Dragon by Amy Sol, 2012 Rasselbock, a German version of the jackalope, by Julia Beutling, 2019 Circe by John Maler Collier, 1885 Statue of Kópakonan, “the Seal Woman” by Hans Pauli Olsen, … Continue reading Animals in Art: Myths and Folklore