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Animal and Mythological Art

Prints featuring fantastical creatures, symbols, and representative art, including coats of arms and mythological figures in elaborate settings.

Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, des reptiles, A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de F. Dufart, an X-XI 1802-1803, anatomy, evolution, pictorial works, reptiles, page rights, Halloween, The illustration features a detailed depiction of a fantastical creature, shown with its limbs splayed out in an exaggerated manner. The upper part of the creature resembles a tortoise, with a shell adorned by various patterns. Four elongated limbs extend from the shell, each ending in a round surface, suggesting an otherworldly or mythical representation. Beneath this creature, a smaller figure appears, possibly another mythical entity or a decorative element, accentuating the surreal nature of the composition. The overall design blends elements of zoology and fantasy, inviting curiosity about the creatures origins and the broader narrative it may belong to.
Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, des reptiles, A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de F. Dufart, an X-XI 1802-1803, anatomy, evolution, pictorial works, reptiles, page rights, Halloween, The illustration features a detailed depiction of a fantastical creature, shown with its limbs splayed out in an exaggerated manner. The upper part of the creature resembles a tortoise, with a shell adorned by various patterns. Four elongated limbs extend from the shell, each ending in a round surface, suggesting an otherworldly or mythical representation. Beneath this creature, a smaller figure appears, possibly another mythical entity or a decorative element, accentuating the surreal nature of the composition. The overall design blends elements of zoology and fantasy, inviting curiosity about the creatures origins and the broader narrative it may belong to.
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Ezel (Equus africanus asinus). Ezel. / Asinus. / ne. (title on object). Draughtsman: Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt. Draughtsman: Elias Verhulst. Dating: 1596 - 1610. Place: Praag. Measurements: h 231 mm × w 187 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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Children is now being charged / to buy 't Osje Boe / it is a Gild-Os Exelent / Gy can buy it for small money. Leaf with a large representation of a guild OS (also called fairground or prize), decorated with floral wreaths. The performance is caught in a decorative frame with tendrils, sphinxes, coats of arms, putti and flowers.
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Scandinavian shields 3, Finnish trumpets 4, bronze bracelet 1 and medal 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Florence, 1847.
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Munich, Wolf & Sohn, dr. C., Braun and Fr. Schneider, K., Geldern, Moolen, Hermann van der, Germany, Knilling, Goetz, Flinzer, Fedor Alexis, Munchener platen, verso - stamped, Sheet with 8 representations of scenes with monkeys. Numbered center bottom: No. 113. Numbered top right: 113., print, folk print, prints, folk prints, Scenes from the life of apes, height 440 mm, width 353 mm, German, 1832-04-04 - 1911-06-14, maker, producer, 1843 - 1920, paper, wood engraving, colours, letterpress printing, Dutch, 1828 - 1892, seller, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher, printer
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Andreas Flinch (1813-1872); , Kranium, (1838)
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Figurine: Cock. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 28.8 x 22.9 cm (11 5/16 x 9 in.) Original IAD Object: 10 1/2" high; 11 1/2" long. Medium: graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Bernard Westmacott.
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Rolleway monkey. Draughtsman: Jan Brandes. Dating: 25-Jan-1784. Place: Jakarta. Measurements: h 195 mm × w 155 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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The Hague, Hari, Johannes (II), Cow's head to the right, verso - stamped, print, prints, height 83 mm, width 66 mm, 1807-12-01 - 1887-03-18, print maker, printmaker, 1822 - 1887, paper, papier, etching, etchings
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Animalia Volatilia et Amphibia (Aier): Plate LVIII. Dated: c. 1575/1580. Dimensions: page size (approximate): 14.3 x 18.4 cm (5 5/8 x 7 1/4 in.). Medium: watercolor and gouache, with oval border in gold, on vellum. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Joris Hoefnagel.
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Insects and the Head of a Wind God ca. 1590-1600 Joris Hoefnagel Netherlandish. Insects and the Head of a Wind God. Joris Hoefnagel (Netherlandish, Antwerp 1542-1600 Vienna). ca. 1590-1600. Pen and brown ink, colored washes, gold paint, on vellum. Drawings
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The Corsican Spider in his Web. Dated: published 1808. Medium: hand-colored etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Thomas Rowlandson.
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Germany: Figures representing the sun, moon and stars consort with a being that is half human female and half reptile. From the alchemical manuscript Clavis Artis, 1738
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Making a wooden pattern from which moulds for casting gun barrels could be formed in sand. From 'De la pirotechnia' by Vannoccio Biringuccio (Venice, 1540).
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Leaf from Portraits d'Oyseaux, plate 70 from Woodcuts from Books of the XVI Century. Unknown Artist (French, 16th century); assembled by Max Geisberg (Swiss, 1875-1943). Date: 1557. Dimensions: 98 × 128 mm (image, recto); 153 × 128 mm (image/te×t, recto); 91 × 124 mm (image, verso); 148 × 132 mm (image/te×t, verso); 225 × 165 mm (sheet). Woodcut on paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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Teschio Umano. Date/Period: 1780. Engraving with etching. Width: 40 cm. Height: 49.8 cm (sheet). Author: Antonio Cattani.
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Mammifères: 1. 2. Cynocéphale Nègre. (Iles Moluques.).. Dumont d'Urville, Jules-Sébastien-César, 1790-1842. Prints. 1830 - 1835. General Research Division
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Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, Goya, Francisco de, Spain, Los Proverbios (The Proverbs), Los Disparates (The Follies), Disparate volante, Flying Folly, verso lower right - stamped, A man and a woman, seen from the back, riding a winged horse with claws and a bird's head. From a series of eighteen prints., print, prent, prints, height 245 mm, width 350 mm, Spanish, 1746-03-30 - 1828-04-16, print maker, printmaker, 1815 - 1820, first quarter 19th century, third quarter 19th century, paper, etching, etchings, aquatint, Work conception, after own design by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher
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Still life with fruits, knife and pencil. Draughtsman: Jan Brandes. Dating: 23-Jan-1779 - 26-Aug-1785. Place: Jakarta. Measurements: h 195 mm × w 155 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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Margate, Kent: a woman diving off a bathing wagon in to the sea. Coloured etching, ca. 1800.
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Heraldic Teutonic flag of the commander and city of Człuchów taken in the year 1410, according to illustration by Stanisław Durinek of Kraków from the manuscript of Jan Długosz, `Banderia Prutenorum` from the year 1448. Lesser, Aleksander (1814-1884), draughtsman, cartoonist, Durink, Stanisław (-ante 1492), painter
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Allegory of the betrayed wife, Anonymous
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Mermaids exhibited in London in 1758, 1775 and 1794 Date: 18th Century
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Asa Cheffetz, The Thief, c. 1919, etching on paper.
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Large Still Life, Tblisi, c. 1900. Piromanaschwili worked as a sign painter and muralist, drawing from Georgian folk art and daily life. Primitivist traditions of Russian naive art were highly influential on modern art movements in the early 20th century
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Cast Iron Hitching Post. Dated: c. 1941. Dimensions: overall: 35.2 x 24.6 cm (13 7/8 x 9 11/16 in.). Medium: watercolor and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: V. L. Vance.
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A question stamp depicting SOW sitting on books; Szcz Niechski, J. (graphic; around 1914 1920 (1914-00-00-1920-00-00);
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'View of the Elector of Saxony's Bear-Garden, at Dresden in Germany', c1673. Artist: Unknown.
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Der Bapstesel zu Rom. Melanchthon, Philipp, 1497-1560. Prints. 1523. Rare Book Division. Catholic Church, Monsters
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Still life with fruits, knife and pencil .. Color drawing of fruits, knife and pencil on the table. A lemons a 'wild Serikaja' (part 1, p. 55). The background consists of a wall or pillar and the arc windows of a churchy building. Part from Jan Brandes, DL sketchbook. 1 (1808), p. 17.
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Pampano, from Fish from American Waters series (N39) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes. Dimensions: Sheet: 2 7/8 x 3 1/4 in. (7.3 x 8.3 cm). Lithographer: Lithography by Lindner, Eddy & Claus (American, New York). Publisher: Issued by Allen & Ginter (American, Richmond, Virginia). Date: 1889.Trade cards from the "Fish from American Waters" series (N39), issued in 1889 in a set of 50 cards to promote Allen & Ginter brand cigarettes. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Thèbes, Karnak. View and details of the Rams along the Avenue of the Great Temple of the South., 1809 - 1828., Paris. Publisher, Impr. impériale., 70 x 49 cm
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Animalia Qvadrvpedia et Reptilia (Terra): Plate XXIII. Dated: c. 1575/1580. Dimensions: page size (approximate): 14.3 x 18.4 cm (5 5/8 x 7 1/4 in.). Medium: watercolor and gouache, with oval border in gold, on vellum. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Joris Hoefnagel.
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Poon (Triglidae). Wijting. / Asellus Mollis. Merlangius. / Merlan (title on object). Draughtsman: Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt. Draughtsman: Elias Verhulst. Dating: 1596 - 1610. Place: Praag. Measurements: h 159 mm × w 280 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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Bliżej Kultury Ferdinand Schenk Verlag für Kunst und Kunstfäwer, Vienna, Dürer, Albrecht (1471 1528)
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Oliphant, Musical Instruments
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Winged portal figure from Nimrud, bull with human head and wings, pre-Christian founding of the city, capital of the Assyrian Empire, ancient Oriental ruins near Mosul, excavations, Iraq, historical illustration 1869
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Netherlands, Bombled, Karel Frederik, Head of John the Baptist on a platter with a chalice next to it, verso middle - stamped, print, prints, height mm, width mm, 1822 - 1902-01-04, print maker, printmaker, 1832 - 1902, paper, papier, houtgravure, Expression creation
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Colossal head Discovered in the Ruins of Carnak by G Belzoni, 1820. Artist: Agostino Aglio
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Animalia Qvadrvpedia et Reptilia (Terra): Plate XXIV. Dated: c. 1575/1580. Dimensions: page size (approximate): 14.3 x 18.4 cm (5 5/8 x 7 1/4 in.). Medium: watercolor and gouache, with oval border in gold, on vellum. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Joris Hoefnagel.
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Clamator jacobinus (Jacobin cuckoo). Draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon. Dating: Oct-1777 - Mar-1786. Measurements: h 660 mm × w 480 mm; h 268 mm × w 406 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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Applique late 19th-early 20th century China. Applique 70119
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Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XXII. Dated: c. 1575/1580. Dimensions: page size (approximate): 14.3 x 18.4 cm (5 5/8 x 7 1/4 in.). Medium: watercolor and gouache, with oval border in gold, on vellum. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Joris Hoefnagel.
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A vintage French postcard, c1900, the artist is unknown.
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Still Life, 1904, by Niko Pirosmani (1862-1918), Russian, Georgian primitivist painter, who posthumously rose to prominence.
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Netherlands, Eendragt, Keeshond and lion at the altar of liberty, 1795, verso - stamped, Oval vignette with a Keeshond and a lion licking each other, in front of an altar with symbols of liberty: lance with hat and scales of justice, 1795., print, prints, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 112 mm, width 86 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1787 - 1795, paper, stipple etching, hand colouring
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Death geniuses (IT)
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Wright, Magnus von, Wright, Wilhelm von, work, Huhkaja, 1829, lithography, painted with water colors, graphics, sheet width 25 cm, sheet height 33 cm, image width 17 cm, image height 21 cm, Wilhelm von Wright 1810 - 1887, Swedish-Finnish painter and amateur naturalist.
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Decors opera, Spiral dragon transformations, Archives of the empire, vintage engraving. Decors opera, Spiral dragon transformations, Archives of the empire, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1867. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10678418
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FIGULINA REPRESENTANDO UN GUERRERO. CULTURA COLIMENSE. - COLECCION DIEGO RIVERA. ARTE PRECOLOMBINO DEL OCCIDENTE DE MEXICO, LAMINA 77. Location: INSTITUTO DE COOPERACION IBEROAMERICANA. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Animalia Qvadrvpedia et Reptilia (Terra): Plate XV. Dated: c. 1575/1580. Dimensions: page size (approximate): 14.3 x 18.4 cm (5 5/8 x 7 1/4 in.). Medium: watercolor and gouache, with oval border in gold, on vellum. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Joris Hoefnagel.
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Book design illustration for Alexander Cohen's From Anarchy to Monarchy: Cormorant. Draughtsman: Leo Gestel. Dating: 1891 - 1941. Measurements: h 133 mm × w 115 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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Animalia Qvadrvpedia et Reptilia (Terra): Plate IX. Dated: c. 1575/1580. Dimensions: page size (approximate): 14.3 x 18.4 cm (5 5/8 x 7 1/4 in.). Medium: watercolor and gouache, with oval border in gold, on vellum. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Joris Hoefnagel.
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GRABADO-HIPOPOTAMO. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. France.
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Martin Partyka, Red Lion Inn Sign, c 1939 Red Lion Inn Sign
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Sardine, from Fish from American Waters series (N39) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes 1889 Issued by Allen & Ginter American Trade cards from the "Fish from American Waters" series (N39), issued in 1889 in a set of 50 cards to promote Allen & Ginter brand cigarettes.. Sardine, from Fish from American Waters series (N39) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes 420172
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State Regional I. Pozhalostin Art Museum, Ryasan 93,5x105
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In the Museum of Staatsbosch Management
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Musée des Horreurs (Gallery of Horrors), Lenepveu, Victor (active End of 19th century)