Animal art has its roots in antique illustrations. The era from about 1500 to 1900 was a golden age for voyages of discovery, colonisation and scientific hobbies. Expeditions usually had scientific and economic objectives, so needed talented artists to document their discoveries, leaving us with treasured antique illustrations.. Aristocrats and industrialists accumulated huge wealth from colonisation, globalisation and the industrial revolution so had plenty of spare time and money to pursue scientific hobbies such as the study of natural history, flora and fauna. They could also afford to employ some of the finest artist to illustrate animals they were interested in. The era for great illustration ended when photography became popular at the beginning of the 1900s.
Our fine art prints of animals are inspired by antique illustrations. We make them with superb pigmented inks and heavyweight 300gsm German fine art paper made from 100% cotton and spring water.
Fine art canvas print.Features african elephants and galago monkeys in the jungle.Based on an antique print from the 1860s by Edmonston and Douglas, which we have carefully restored and enhanced.Read about how we make our fine art canvas prints here.@ Fine Rare Prints. All rights reserved...
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A stunning D’Urville’s Birdwing Butterfly (Ornithoptera urvilliana, now Ornithoptera primus urvillianus). Found in tropical Cape York peninsula in Australia. Considered endangered, and threatened by their beauty...
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Fine art print inspired by an engraving made in the 1840s by Charles Orbigny.Features a blue lobster...
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Fine art print inspired by an engraving made in the 1840s by Charles Orbigny.Features coconut crab. The coconut crab, Birgus latro, is a species of terrestrial hermit crab, also known as the robber crab or palm thief. It is the largest land-living arthropod in the world, with a weight of up to 4.1 k..
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Fine art print inspired by one of the earliest sets of illustrations of dog breeds, created in 1881 by Vero Shaw.Features Daschunds...
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Deerhound from Cassell's Illustrated Book of the Dog by Vero Shaw, published in the 1880s. This is a fine art print of the lithograph...
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Fine art print inspired by an engraving made in the 1840s by Charles Orbigny.Features a grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis), also known as the silvertip bear or the North American brown bear...
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Fine art canvas print.Features hippo, grey-green monkey and grey parrot in the jungle.Based on an antique print from the 1860s by Edmonston and Douglas, which we have carefully restored and enhanced.Read about how we make our fine art canvas prints here.@ Fine Rare Prints. All rights reserved...
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Fine art print inspired by an engraving made in the 1840s by Charles Orbigny.Features a hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius), or hippo, The hippopotamus is the third-largest type of land mammal. Their closest living relatives are cetaceans (whales, porpoises, etc.) from which they diverged about 55..
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Fine art canvas print.Features hippopotamuses in a river.Based on an antique print from the 1860s by Edmonston and Douglas, which we have carefully restored and enhanced.Read about how we make our fine art canvas prints here.@ Fine Rare Prints. All rights reserved...
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Fine art print inspired by an engraving made in the 1840s by Charles Orbigny.Features an Indian elephant (Elephas maximus indicus). This is one of three recognised subspecies of the Asian elephant and native to mainland Asia...
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Fine art print inspired by an engraving made in the 1840s by Charles Orbigny.Features an Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis), also called the greater one-horned rhinoceros and Indian one-horned rhinoceros. The Indian rhinoceros once ranged throughout the entire stretch of the Indo-Gangetic Plai..
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Fine art print inspired by an engraving made in the 1840s by Charles Orbigny.Features a jaguar (Panthera onca), the third-largest feline after the tiger and the lion. The jaguar's present range extends from Southern United States south to Paraguay and northern Argentina. This spotted cat most closel..
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Fine art print inspired by an engraving made in the 1840s by Charles Orbigny.Features a lionness with her cubs...
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Fine art print inspired by an engraving made in the 1840s by Charles Orbigny.Features a Mantis shrimp (stomatopod). They may reach 38 cm (15 in) has been recorded. Sometimes referred to as "thumb splitters" – because of the animal's ability to inflict painful gashes if handled incautiously mantis sh..
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A stunning blue Morpho butterfly and other butterflies. The name Morpho, meaning changed or modified, is also an epithet of Aphrodite and Venus, goddesses of love...
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Fine art print inspired by an engraving made in the 1840s by Charles Orbigny.Features an ornamental shrimp. These shrimps are a type of cleaner shrimp, which clean fish which come to the shrimp's cleaner station...
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Fine art print inspired by an engraving made in the 1840s by Charles Orbigny.Features raccoons.Fine art print of an engraving made in the 1840s by Charles Orbigny...
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Fine art canvas print.Based on an antique illustration by Karl Brodtmann from the 1820s.Brodtmann was a famous Swiss naturalist. His illustrations are lifelike and impressive.Read about how we make our fine art canvas prints here.@ Fine Rare Prints. All rights reserved...
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Fine art canvas print.Based on an antique illustration by Karl Brodtmann from the 1820s.Brodtmann was a famous Swiss naturalist. His illustrations are lifelike and impressive.Read about how we make our fine art canvas prints here.@ Fine Rare Prints. All rights reserved...
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Fine art print inspired by an engraving made in the 1840s by Charles Orbigny.Features a sea horse and flying fish...
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Fine art print.Features a Swallowtail Butterfly and Dandelion.Based on a lithograph from the 1800s by Friedrich Kuhnert, which we have carefully restored and enhanced.Read about how we make our fine art prints here.@ Fine Rare Prints. All rights reserved...
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Fine art print.Features a giraffe.Based on an engraving made in ~1806 for John Good’s “Pantalogia”, which we have carefully restored and enhanced.Read about how we make our fine art prints here.@ Fine Rare Prints. All rights reserved...
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Fine art canvas print.Based on an antique illustration by Karl Brodtmann from the 1820s.Brodtmann was a famous Swiss naturalist. His illustrations are lifelike and impressive.Read about how we make our fine art canvas prints here.@ Fine Rare Prints. All rights reserved...
US$45.00
Fine art canvas print.Based on an antique illustration by Karl Brodtmann from the 1820s.Brodtmann was a famous Swiss naturalist. His illustrations are lifelike and impressive.Read about how we make our fine art canvas prints here.@ Fine Rare Prints. All rights reserved...
US$45.00
Fine art canvas print.Based on an antique illustration by Karl Brodtmann from the 1820s.Brodtmann was a famous Swiss naturalist. His illustrations are lifelike and impressive.Read about how we make our fine art canvas prints here.@ Fine Rare Prints. All rights reserved...
US$45.00
Fine art canvas print.Based on an antique illustration by Karl Brodtmann from the 1820s.Brodtmann was a famous Swiss naturalist. His illustrations are lifelike and impressive.Read about how we make our fine art canvas prints here.@ Fine Rare Prints. All rights reserved...
US$45.00
Fine art print.Features a collection of cone shells (conus).Based on a lithograph made in the 1820s by John Mawe, which we have carefully restored and enhanced.Read about how we make our fine art prints here.@ Fine Rare Prints. All rights reserved...
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Fine art canvas print.Features elephants bathing in a pool.Based on an antique print from the 1860s by Edmonston and Douglas, which we have carefully restored and enhanced.Read about how we make our fine art canvas prints here.@ Fine Rare Prints. All rights reserved...
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Fine art canvas print.Based on an antique illustration by Karl Brodtmann from the 1820s.Brodtmann was a famous Swiss naturalist. His illustrations are lifelike and impressive.Read about how we make our fine art canvas prints here.@ Fine Rare Prints. All rights reserved...
US$45.00