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Prints available on Etsy! $20 ea Nautilus Anatomy by Rachel Caauwe, 2010
Phrixus and Helle Tommaso Piroli (engraver), from Antiquités d’Herculanum, published by Francesco and Pietro Piranesi, Paris, 1804. (Source: archive.org)
A knight’s Surrender. A new painting by Felix d’Eon
The bear and the behive. Ernest Griset, from Æsop’s fables, with text based chiefly upon Croxall, La Fontaine and L’Estrange, London, New York, 1869. (Source: archive.org)
The hawk and the nightingale. Ernest Griset, from Æsop’s fables, with text based chiefly upon Croxall, La Fontaine and L’Estrange, London, New York, 1869. (Source: archive.org)
Illustration By Joseph Christian Leyendecker For The Saturday Evening Post’s November 4, 1933 Issue
[Wolf], Wenzel Hollar (1607-1677)
Fruit Bats. ([189-?]) via NYPL
True vampire ; Leaf-nosed ; Shovelnose ; Spearnose ; Heartnose. (1792-1893) via NYPL
John James Audubon - The Birds of America
Goliah Brass, sketching in the great Wigglewaggle, is unconscious of the presence of a critic. Ernest Griset, from The hatchet throwers, by James Greenwood, London, 1866. (Source: archive.org)
The elephant tosses him “heads or tails?” Ernest Griset, from The hatchet throwers, by James Greenwood, London, 1866. (Source: archive.org)
They are threatened with an awful punishment for the crime of housebreaking. Ernest Griset, from The hatchet throwers, by James Greenwood, London, 1866. (Source: archive.org)
Primate Faces - Plate 38  From ‘Die Vollstandigste Naturgeschichte der Affen’ (The Complete Natural History of the Apes) by H.G. Ludwig Reichenbac