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

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

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