Goya - What a Golden Beak! From Los Caprichos, 1799

Francisco Goya y Lucientes , What a golden beak! Alternate Title: ¡Que pico de oro! Portfolio: Los Caprichos, plate 53 Spain, 1799 Prints; etchings Etching, burnished aquatint and burin , 21.27 × 13.65 cm . LACMA (63.11.53).

Sour Orange, Terrestrial Mollusk, and Larkspur, Joris Hoefnagel & Georg Bocskay, plate from Mira calligraphiae monumenta. 

Joris Hoefnagel (Flemish / Hungarian, 1542 - 1600)
Sour Orange, Terrestrial Mollusk, and Larkspur, 1561 - 1562; illumination added 1591 - 1596, Watercolors, gold and silver paint, and ink on parchment
Leaf: 16.6 × 12.4 cm (6 9/16 × 4 7/8 in.), Ms. 20 (86.MV.527), fol. 33
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. 20, fol. 33.

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858) : 
Suidobashi Surugadai [Suido Bridge and Surugadai], from the series Meisho Edo hyakkei [One Hundred Views of Famous Places of Edo]. 1857.

Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese 歌川 広重), aka Andō Hiroshige (Japanese 安藤 広重; 1797 – 12 October 1858) : Travellers on horseback in the snow, woodblock colour print. between circa 1835 and circa 1837.

Spumellaria - from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (Art forms of Nature) of 1904.

Sidney Hall : Urania’s Mirror , "Monoceros, Canis Minor and Atelier Typographique", plate 31, in Urania's Mirror, a set of celestial cards accompanied. A familiar treatise on astronomy ... by Jehoshaphat Aspin. London. Astronomical chart, 1 print on layered paper board : etching, hand-coloured - 1824. Library of Congress.

Sidney Hall : Urania’s Mirror "Psalterium Georgii, Fluvius Eridanus, Cetus, Officina Sculptoris, Fornax Chemica, and Machina Electrica", plate 28 in Urania's Mirror, a set of celestial cards accompanied by A familiar treatise on astronomy ... by Jehoshaphat Aspin. London. Astronomical chart, 1 print on layered paper board : etching, hand-coloured . Library of Congress.

Gustave Doré : Puss in Boots , engraving from Perrault’s Fairy Tales - 1862-67.

Goya - Might not the pupil know more? , From Los Caprichos, 1799 by
Francisco Goya y Lucientes - Might not the pupil know more ? Alternate Title: ¿Si sabrá mas el discipulo? Portfolio: Los Caprichos, plate 37 Spain, 1799
Etching , aquatint and burin (20.32 × 12.38 cm. LACMA (63.11.37).

Snails from the Japanese Journal of Design 'Shin-Bijutsukai' 1901-02 , lithograph, MFA Boston.

Jonah and the Whale, Folio from a Jami al-Tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles), Iran, ca. 1400 , Ink, opaque watercolour, gold, and silver on paper The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.

Ernst Haeckel : Radiolaria, From Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger (1873-1876), Vol. XVIII Report on the Radiolaria. Library of Congress.

Giacomo Merculiano (1859–1935) : Various examples of sea anemones (1893 chromolithographic print), The Smithsonian.

Sidney Hall : Urania’s Mirror "Draco and Ursa Minor", plate 1 in Urania's Mirror, a set of celestial cards accompanied by A familiar treatise on astronomy ... by Jehoshaphat Aspin. London. Astronomical chart, 1 print on layered paper board : etching, hand-coloured. Library of Congress - 1924.

Hokusai Katsushika : Waterfall where Yoshitsune Washed his Horse at Yoshino in Yamato Province (Washu Yoshino Yoshitsune uma arai no taki) colour woodblock print , from the series , A Tour of the Waterfalls of the Provinces (Shokoku taki meguri), 1833-4. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.

Sidney Hall , Urania’s Mirror , “Cancer”, plate 19 in Urania's Mirror, a set of celestial cards accompanied by A familiar treatise on astronomy ... by Jehoshaphat Aspin. London. Astronomical chart, 1 print on layered paper board : etching, hand-coloured . Library of Congress .

Illustration of a horse, showing different body parts.

Markhams Maisterpeece. Conteyning all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leech ... [Gervase Markham]. Imprint London N. & J. Okes, 1636.

Ernst Haeckel's Evolution of Man -  Animal embryos - 1910.

Illustration of a horse showing different body parts.

'Markhams Maisterpeece. Conteyning all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leech ... Gervase Markham. Imprint London N. & J. Okes, 1636.'

Interior of a dog from The Household Physician, 1905.

Interior of a cow from The Household Physician, 1905.

From the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, published in Russia,1890-1907.

J.J. Grandville - Dancing Animals - Illustration from 'Un Autre Monde', 1844.