Historical Scientific Illustrations

A collection of vintage images depicting scientists, botany, and allegorical figures in various artistic styles, highlighting the intersection of art and science.

Portrait of G.B.A. Duchenne and test subject 'La Jeune Fille' during electrostimulation, c. 1860 - in or before 1862 OngenumMeRe Pagina puts Foto 78 Uit Mechanism of human physiognomy or electro-physiological analysis of the expression of passions (Atlas). Francepublisher: Paris paper. photographic support albumen print France OngenumMeRe Pagina puts Foto 78 Uit Mechanism of human physiognomy or electro-physiological analysis of the expression of passions (Atlas). Francepublisher: Paris paper. photographic support albumen print France

Photo production of a sketch of a botanicus by Albert Hendschel, Theodor Huth, after Albert Hendschel, c. 1865 - in or before c. 1870 photograph This photo is part of a cover with 50 photos on 48 sheets, a list of images and a title page. Frankfurt am Main photographic support albumen print botany (+ scholar, scientist (at work))

Lithograph by Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin before 1821 depicting a beet cleaner at work, showing figure, action, and interior composition.

Copper engraving and etching by Pierre Charles Baquoy representing the personifications of optics, painting, and chemistry, created between 1803 and 1809. The work illustrates allegorical figures symbolizing scientific and artistic disciplines.

Électro-Physiologie Photographique, Figure 22.

Portrait of G.B.A. Duchenne and test subject 'La Jeune Fille' during electrostimulation, c. 1860 - in or before 1862 OngenumMeRe Pagina puts Foto 78 Uit Mechanism of human physiognomy or electro-physiological analysis of the expression of passions (Atlas). Francepublisher: Paris paper. photographic support albumen print France OngenumMeRe Pagina puts Foto 78 Uit Mechanism of human physiognomy or electro-physiological analysis of the expression of passions (Atlas). Francepublisher: Paris paper. photographic support albumen print France

Copper engraving and etching by Anthony Walker depicting a physicist at work. Created between 1746 and 1765, illustrating scientific study and professional activity.

Copper engraving by Jacques-Philippe Le Bas from 1727-1783 depicting a comet in the sky, showing celestial elements, landscape, and observational details.

A copper engraving and etching by Benoit Louis Henriquez between 1752 and 1806 illustrating principles of optics.

Copper engraving and etching by Johann Georg Wille from 1761 to around 1781 depicting the little physicist, showing figure, instruments, and interior scene.

Etching by Gérard Audran, 1683, showing proportion studies of the human body with detailed anatomical figures, skeletal structure, and measurements for study purposes.

Fig. 40.

Syphilis hereditaria. Dr. George Henry Fox, photographer (American, 1846 - 1937) 1881 View of a young girl with her skirt pulled up to show large lesions from congenital syphilis over her outer thigh and calf. (Recto, sheet) lower center, below image, printed in brown ink: "SYPHILIS HEREDITARIA. / PLATE XLVI." Lower left, printed in brown ink: "cut offARROUN & BIERSTADT, N.Y."

Portret van Michael Faraday, Ernest Edwards, c. 1858 - in or before 1868 photograph London paper albumen print science and technology. historical persons

Portret van William Purdie Dickson, anonymous, c. 1886 - in or before 1891 photomechanical print Glasgow paper historical persons. aspects of science in general (+ portrait of scholar, scientist)

Portrait of a test subject during electrostimulation: 'Lady Macbeth'. Unnumbered page with photo 82 from Mécanism de la Physionomy Humaine Ou Analysis Électro-Physiologique de l'Expression des Passions (Atlas).

Électro-Physiologie Photographique, Figure 63.

An artist measures a model of the human body from a distance with one eye shut; representing the faculty of perception in extended space in phrenological classification. Steel engraving by J-I-L. Desjardins, 1847, after H. Bruyères.

Fig. 62.

Portrait of a test subject during electrostimulation: 'un Vieillard'. Unnumbered page with photo 13 from Mécanism de la Physionomy Humaine Ou Analysis Électro-Physiologique de l'Expression des Passions (Atlas).

Le Cornet du Pasteur ,. Paul Gavarni (1804-1866). Lithographs and Other Works

Copper engraving and etching by René Gaillard, around 1773, depicting Archimedes, showing figure, classical pose, and scientific instruments.

Fig. 74.

The anatomy of the human gravid uterus exhibited in figures

Etching by Thomas Major depicting an alchemist's laboratory in 1755, showing scientific instruments, flasks, and chemical apparatus used in 18th-century experiments.

Copper engraving by Thomas Major, 1730-1799, depicting a young alchemist in a laboratory, showing apparatus, books, and study of chemical or natural processes.

Électro-Physiologie Photographique, Figure 84.

Copper engraving by Jan Collaert the Younger circa 1591 depicting inventions and discoveries, illustrating scientific instruments, mechanical devices, and technological exploration.

Unknown naked man, and face with a gun in a shooting position, anonymous, c. 1880 - in or before 1890 photomechanical print paper collotype anatomy (non-medical). firearms

Électro-Physiologie Photographique. Fig. 57. Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne, photographer (French, 1806 - 1875) and Adrien Alban Tournachon, photographer (French, 1825 - 1903) 1862

The anatomy of the human gravid uterus exhibited in figures

The anatomy of the human gravid uterus exhibited in figures

Etching by Jan Pieter de Frey showing the Anatomy lesson of Dr. Tulp, produced in 1798, illustrating medical figures, cadaver, and anatomical study.

Etching by Petrus Feddes depicting the human skeleton, created in 1614.

The anatomy of the human gravid uterus exhibited in figures

Électro-Physiologie Photographique, Figure 62.

Électro-Physiologie Photographique, Figure 34.

Astronomical observations made at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh..

Edmé Quenedey (1756-1830). Physionotrace. 1786-1792. Edma Queenedey (1756-1830). Physionotrace. 1786-1792.

Électro-Physiologie Photographique, Planche 8.

Électro-Physiologie Photographique, Figure 52.

Ellis, Henry Welbore Agar .

Électro-Physiologie Photographique, Figure 74.

Électro-Physiologie Photographique, Figure 39.

Description: Fascine drainage. Cross-Sections - one sawn across, one broken across - of the branches shown in the other photograph; they have been removed from a drain packed 5 years 8 months ago. Location: Borneo asia, malaysia, borneo, sabah, asiathroughalens

The anatomy of the human gravid uterus exhibited in figures

C, Naumann, Carl Friedrich Naumann, German geologist and crystallographer, Rudolf Hoffmann, Lithographer, Joh, Haller, Printer, George André Lenoir -, publishing house

Italian scientists: Galileo in the centre, others in orbit around him. Lithograph by V. Mollame, 1842.

Électro-Physiologie Photographique, Figure 26.

Électro-Physiologie Photographique, Planche 1.

Portrait of a test subject during electrostimulation: 'un Vieillard'. Unnumbered page with photo 8 from Mécanism de la Physionomy Humaine Ou Analysis Électro-Physiologique de l'Expression des Passions (Atlas).

Électro-Physiologie Photographique, Figure 60.

This 17th-century copper engraving by Jan-Baptist Barbé depicts various optical experiments, showing instruments, geometrical devices, and scientific study.

Hans Molisch's 1914 silver gelatin photograph depicts a detailed view of a leaf with reference to the breast of Prof. Dr. Molisch, showing anatomical or botanical features.

Two physicists, around them, animals and babies, Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1787 print Berlin paper etching interior of the house. laboratory, research room. dissection. physiology and anatomy (+ scholar, scientist (at work))

Fig. 42.

Vanity Fair - Doctors and Scientists. Sir William Bartlett-Dalby-Knight. 22 December 1888, Carlo Pellegrini, 1839-1889, Italian, 1888, Color lithograph

Électro-Physiologie Photographique, Figure 18.

Henry George when writing "The science of political economy".. 1865 - 1899. Portraits, Prints. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Single tax, George, Henry, 1839-1897

Ellis, Henry Welbore Agar .

Portrait of a test subject during electrostimulation: 'un Vieillard'. Unnumbered page with photo 12 from Mécanism de la Physionomy Humaine Ou Analysis Électro-Physiologique de l'Expression des Passions (Atlas).

Heinrich von Bamberger, pathologist, Johann Georg Gattineau, Photographer

Meyer Edma Queenedey (1756-1830). "Meyer". Physionotrace. 1786-1830.

Électro-Physiologie Photographique, Figure 27.

Vanity Fair - Doctors and Scientists. 'Philosophical Pathology'. Dr. Samuel Wilks. 1 October 1892, Leslie Matthew 'Spy' Ward, 1851-1922, British, 1892, Chromolithograph

A gray brush drawing by Aert Schouman portraying Arnold Marcel in old age, surrounded by scientific instruments.

Large cancerous tumor on the cheek of an old farm labourer. Grew to a height of two inches (5cm) above the skin and hemorrhaged often. Copperplate engraving by Edward Mitchell after an illustration by John Bell from his own Principles of Surgery, as they Relate to Wounds, Ulcers and Fistulas, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1815.

Vanity Fair - Doctors and Scientists. 'The Ilkeston Division'. Sir Walter Foster. 11 October 1894, Leslie Matthew 'Spy' Ward, 1851-1922, British, 1894, Chromolithograph

An illustration of a criminal - Lombroso claimed that criminal nature was revealed in physiognomy. Date: 1895

Leslie Matthew 'Spy' Ward, 1851-1922, British, Vanity Fair - Doctors and Scientists. 'The Ilkeston Division'. Sir Walter Foster. 11 October 1894, 1894. Chromolithograph.

Leslie Matthew 'Spy' Ward, 1851-1922, British, Vanity Fair - Doctors and Scientists. 'Agriculture'. Sir Edward Coke, The Earl of Leicester. 4 August 1883, 1883. Chromolithograph.

The anatomy of the human gravid uterus exhibited in figures

Astronomy'. James Ludovic Lindsay, Earl Crawford and Balcarres (1847-1913), Scottish nobleman, who succeeded to his titles in 1880. An astronomer, collector and bibliophile, he built an observatory on the family estates at Dunecht near Aberdeen c1872. In 1888 donated the 15,000 items which form the Crawford Library to the Royal Observatory Edinburgh. Cartoon by 'Spy', pseudonym of Leslie Ward (1851-1922), British painter and caricaturist, from 'Vanity Fair'. (London, 11 May 1878). Chromolithograph.

Vanity Fair: Teachers and Headmasters; 'Popular Astronomy', Sir Robert Ball, Leslie Matthew 'Spy' Ward, 1851-1922, British, c. 1905, Chromolithograph

Anatomical study of the femur, Anatomical study of the femur. Numbered top right T. 79, upper leg, muscles, femur, bone or the upper leg, Pieter van Gunst, Amsterdam, 1685, paper, engraving, w 338 mm × h 490 mm

Unknown species of brown capuchin, Cebus species 213, Guianan weeper capuchin, Cebus olivaceus 214, and equatorial saki, Pithecia aequatorialis 216. Coaita, brown capuchin and saki. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Jacques de Seve from James Smith Barrs edition of Comte Buffons Natural History, A Theory of the Earth, General History of Man, Brute Creation, Vegetables, Minerals, T. Gillet, H. D. Symonds, Paternoster Row, London, 1807.

Ill. to Chapter "Variétés dans l'espèce humaine. Sur les Blafards et Nègres blancs.". Cuvier, Frederic (1773-1838). Prints, Illustrations. 1829 - 1832. General Research Division. Natural history

Andreas von Etingshausen, physicist, mathematician, Ludwig Angerer -, photographer

'Member of the crew of SS ''Vega'' expedition of 1878-1879 to negotiate the Northeast Passage. Engraving from ''The Voyage of the Vega ...'', 1885, by Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskjold.'

Erasmus Darwin, M.D.. 1880. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

Flowers, Fruits & Vegetables of the day / 31. / lettuce / m. Joints.

Leslie Matthew 'Spy' Ward, 1851-1922, British, Vanity Fair - Doctors and Scientists. 'Hydropathy'. James Manby Gully. 5 August 1876, 1876. Chromolithograph.

'Humphry Davy (1778-1829) British chemist, shown as a boy in Cornwall experimenting on the diffusion of heat. Engraving, 1878. Popularly remebered for his invention of the miner's safety lamp.'

Fig. 34.

MD. Cotton caps. / 5 (title registered (letter)) | Natural History. (Title of all)

Baronin scale, Josef Löwy -, photographer

Resection of Shoulder Joint. Charles B. Brigham (American, 1845 - 1903)

Anatomical drawing of a crocodile by William Cheselden in Osteographia, or The anatomy of the bones. (London: 1733).

Euclides en ptoolomeus, anonymous, 1521 print Two of four portraits of scientists from the gric antiquity. Euclid's looking along a mathematical measuring instrument, the astronomer ptolomeus with a heavenly ball. paper male persons from classical history (PTOLEMY). male persons from classical history (EUCLIDES)

It does not miss any more at your majesty ... that its long view SEM (Georges Goursat, said, 1863-1934). It does not miss your Majesty anymore ... that his long view. Color photomechanical process.

Charles Bonnet, FRS, Genevan naturalist and author of Contemplation of Names, 1720-1793. Surrounded by the Chain of Nature with figures of orders of zoology, botany and mineralogy. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving by James Caldwell after a portrait by J. Juel from Dr. Robert John Thorntons New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus, the Temple of Flora, London, 1802.

Experiments in physiology. Facial expressions; Amazement

Eskimo man, Arctic explorations in the years 1853, 1854, 1855 by Elisha Kent Kane. Old 19th century engraving from Le Tour du Monde 1860

Electro-physiologie Photographique, Fig. 78; Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne (French, 1806 - 1875); 1876; Albumen silver print

LING with PHYLLITIS SCOLOPENDRIUM (Hart's tongue) Date: 1905

Currier & Ives, "American Eclipse", 1880, color lithograph on paper.

The Development of Surveying Instruments. undefined.

SIR RICHARD OWEN naturalist Date: 1804-1892

TOPOGRAPHISCH- ANATOMISCHER ATLAS, 1872, LEIPZIG.

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