Discover genuine antique prints of animals.
Animal illustration has been an important art form for centuries. It is a beautiful blend of art and science.
Animal illustration reached a peak in about 1600 to 1900. This was an exciting era of exploration and discovery. Scientists and artists documented and illustrated animal discoveries.
At the same time, it was fashionable for wealthy people to have scientific hobbies. One of the most popular was studying nature. The wealthy employed some of the finest artists to illustrate animals. The illustrations were usually printed as engravings and lithographs.
Choose from thousands of our antique prints of animals. They are genuine antique prints.
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21 x 15 cm (8.25 x 6 inches).This is an antique stipple engraving by Pretre, a renowned French natural history artist and was made in 1819. The quality of the stipple engraving is beautifully detailed, and it has original hand coloring. It is from a rare set of natural history prints, Faune Francais..
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35.5 x 26.5 cm (14 x 10.5 inches).This is an original antique print from a beautiful study of marine life in the collection of the Museum of Leiden, and was published in Amsterdam in 1869 by Jan Adrianus Herklots...
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15.8 x 9.8 cm (6.2 x 4.0 inches)Mephitis chilensisChileThis finely detailed engraving was made in London in the 1840s.It is a genuine antique, not a reproduction and is in very good condition. The original hand colouring and engraving is excellent. The publishing company William Home Lizars of Londo..
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23 x 15 cm (9 x 6 inches).Termes arborum and bellicosusThis antique engraving is over 200 years old. It is from the first edition of one of George Shaw's works on zoology, published between 1801 and 1804. George Shaw (1751-1813) was a notable English botanist and zoologist and initially a medical pr..
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28 x 20 cm (10.5 x 8 inches).This exquisitely detailed engraving is from a set made in London by Abraham Rees. Each print shows the date made, ranging from 1797 to 1820.This is an antique, not a modern reproduction and is in very good condition. The paper is thick, clean and bright, with a trace of ..
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16.0 x 10.0 cm (6.3 x 4.0 inches).This finely detailed engraved print of fish was made in London in the 1840s.This is a genuine antique engraving, not a reproduction. It is in very good condition. The original hand painted colouring and detail of the engraving is excellent. Fishing has been a popula..
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15.8 x 9.8 cm (6.2 x 4.0 inches)This finely detailed engraving was made in London in the 1840s.It is a genuine antique, not a reproduction and is in very good condition. The original hand colouring and engraving is excellent. The publishing company William Home Lizars of London and Edinburgh, made t..
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15.8 x 9.8 cm (6.2 x 4.0 inches)This finely detailed engraving was made in London in the 1840s.It is a genuine antique, not a reproduction and is in very good condition. The original hand colouring and engraving is excellent. The publishing company William Home Lizars of London and Edinburgh, made t..
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16.0 x 10.0 cm (6.3 x 4.0 inches).This finely detailed engraved print of fish was made in London in the 1840s.This is a genuine antique engraving, not a reproduction. It is in very good condition. The original hand painted colouring and detail of the engraving is excellent. Fishing has been a popula..
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15.8 x 9.8 cm (6.2 x 4.0 inches)This finely detailed engraving was made in London in the 1840s.It is a genuine antique, not a reproduction and is in very good condition. The original hand colouring and engraving is excellent. The publishing company William Home Lizars of London and Edinburgh, made t..
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28 x 21.5cm (11 x 8.5 inches). This original antique engraving was published in 1843 in London in the first and only edition of "Sports, British and Foreign" by Walter Spiers. The finely detailed engravings were by some of the best artists and engravers of the period such as Sir Edwin Landseer...
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16.5 x 10.0 cm (6.3 x 4.0 inches).Indonesia,SumatraThis finely detailed engraved print of a big cat was made in London in the 1840s.This is a genuine antique engraving, not a reproduction and is in very good condition. The original hand colouring and engraving is excellent. The publishing company Wi..
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Murex and Trochus shellsThis exquisitely detailed engraving is from a set made in London by Abraham Rees in the period 1797-1820. It is an antique, not a modern reproduction. Many of the prints in this set were engraved from artwork by Sydenham Edwards, a multi-talented gentleman also well known for..
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15.8 x 9.8 cm (6.2 x 4.0 inches)AfricaThis finely detailed engraving was made in London in the 1840s.It is a genuine antique, not a reproduction and is in very good condition. The original hand colouring and engraving is excellent. The publishing company William Home Lizars of London and Edinburgh, ..
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46.5 x 33 cm (18.3 x 12.5 inches).By F. C. TurnerThis vintage print is by F. C. Turner (1795-1846), a popular artist who specialised in outdoor scenes. It is a high quality vintage reproduction made over 60 years ago, printed on thick, high quality cotton rag paper and is in excellent condition.Out ..
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27 x 18. cm (11 x 7.25 inches).Volute XlviiThis antique lithograph of seashells is from a set by George Brettingham Sowerby Jnr, published in parts in London from about 1842-1886 and is an antique, not a reproduction. It has hand painted colors and is in very good condition.It's from one of the rare..
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15.8 x 9.8 cm (6.2 x 4.0 inches)Aelian's PhascocochoeresThis finely detailed engraving was made in London in the 1840s.It is a genuine antique, not a reproduction and is in very good condition. The original hand colouring and engraving is excellent. The publishing company William Home Lizars of Lond..
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15.8 x 9.8 cm (6.2 x 4.0 inches)Eira ferrugineaThis finely detailed engraving was made in London in the 1840s.It is a genuine antique, not a reproduction and is in very good condition. The original hand colouring and engraving is excellent. The publishing company William Home Lizars of London and Ed..
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21 x 13cm (8.3 x 5.2 inches)This superb antique engraving is over 230 years old. It's from "British Zoology" by Thomas Pennant, which was published in 1776 in Warrington, England. The illustrations in the early editions were so expensive to produce that he made little money and gave the profits to c..
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39 x 24cm (15.25 x 9.5 inches) To St.Paul's Cathedral To Return Thanks For The Defeat Of The Spanish Armada(Has been skilfully strengthened with archival tape on a few places on the rear)This antique engraving was created in 1777 in London, England for William Augustus Russel's impressive work about..
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37 x 25.5 cm (14.5 x 10 inches).This is an original antique military print by made in the period 1890 to 1905. These were made for people to collect and to attract recruits to the army. Richard Simkin (1840-1926) was a British draughtsman and occasional lithographer of military uniforms. He was empl..
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26.5 x 17.5cm (10.5 x 7 inches).This hand colored aquatint engraving was made in 1850 and is by Henry Thomas Alken (1785-1851), the famous English painter and engraver best known for humorous illustrations of people and sports. It is a genuine antique, not a reproduction, and is in excellent conditi..
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