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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 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...
US$45.00
Fine art print.Features DeerhoundBased on a lithograph made in 1881 from one of the earliest sets of illustrations of dog breeds by Vero Shaw, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
US$45.00
Fine art 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...
US$45.00
Fine art 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...
US$45.00
Fine art print.Pterodactyl - Fledermaus-Saurier. Flying dinosaur. The first identified flying reptile. Fossils found in Germany date from 150m years ago.Based on an antique print from the early 1900s by Heinrich Harder, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
US$45.00
Fine art print.Features Puffer fish and Box fish (Varieties of Tatrodon and Diodon).Based on an engraving made in the 1790s by Abraham Rees, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
US$45.00
Fine art print.Features Pug, Italian Greyhound and Yorkshire Terrier.Based on a lithograph made in 1881 from one of the earliest sets of illustrations of dog breeds by Vero Shaw, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
US$45.00
Fine art print.Based on an antique illustration by Karl Brodtmann from the 1820s.Brodtmann was a famous Swiss naturalist. His illustrations are lifelike and impressive...
US$45.00
Fine art print.Based on an antique illustration by Karl Brodtmann from the 1820s.Brodtmann was a famous Swiss naturalist. His illustrations are lifelike and impressive...
US$45.00
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...
US$45.00
Fine art print.Features a tasmanian tiger (thylacinus cynocephalus) and wombat.Based on an antique print from the 1860s by Edmonston and Douglas, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
US$45.00
Fine art print.Features Coral - Venus's Fan (Gorgonia Flabellum).Based on a zoological engraving made in the late 1700s to early 1800s by George Shaw, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
US$45.00
Fine art print.A Diplodocus Dinosaur (Der Diplodokus). One of the most famous dinosaurs. For many years, was the longest dinosaur known, being up to 35 m (115 ft). Many fossils have been found in the USA.Based on an antique print from the early 1900s by Heinrich Harder, which we have carefully resto..
US$45.00
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...
US$45.00
Fine art print.Based on an engraving from the 1820s by John Godman, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
US$45.00
Fine art print.Based on an antique illustration by Karl Brodtmann from the 1820s.Brodtmann was a famous Swiss naturalist. His illustrations are lifelike and impressive...
US$45.00
Fine art print.Based on an antique illustration by Karl Brodtmann from the 1820s.Brodtmann was a famous Swiss naturalist. His illustrations are lifelike and impressive...
US$45.00
Fine art print.Based on an antique illustration by Karl Brodtmann from the 1820s.Brodtmann was a famous Swiss naturalist. His illustrations are lifelike and impressive...
US$45.00
Fine art print.Based on an antique illustration by Karl Brodtmann from the 1820s.Brodtmann was a famous Swiss naturalist. His illustrations are lifelike and impressive...
US$45.00
Fine art print.Features Nautilus shells (Argonauta and Nautilus). Fossil records indicate that nautiloids have not evolved much during the last 500 million years!Based on an engraving made in the 1790s by Abraham Rees, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
US$45.00
Fine art print.Features Blue Shark, Lesser Spotted Dog Fish, Angel Shark, Hammerhead Shark, Zebra Shark and Reticulated Shark.Based on an engraving made in the 1790s by Abraham Rees, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
US$45.00
Fine art print.Features a Badger.Based on an etching from the 1820s by Samuel Howitt, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
US$45.00
Fine art print.Features 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. Based on an engraving made in the 1840s by Charles Orbigny, which we have ..
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...
US$45.00
Fine art print.Features a guereza and colobus monkeys.Based on a lithograph from the 1870s by Thomas Rymer Jones, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
US$45.00
Fine art print.Features a morpho butterfly and other butterflies. The name morpho, meaning changed or modified, is also an epithet of aphrodite and venus, goddesses of love.Based on an engraving made in the 1840s by Charles Orbigny, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
US$45.00
Fine art print.Features a nautilus and an american thorny-oyster.Based on an engraving from 1776 by George Sowerby, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
US$45.00
Fine art print.Features pufferfish, little dragonfish, seahorse and white-spotted pufferfish (diodon tigrinus, pegasus draco, hippocampus foliatus, tetradon hispidus).Based on a rare hand coloured lithograph from the 1840s by Heinrich Schinz, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
US$45.00
Fine art print.Titled 'Mambrino' and shows the famous horse thus named.Based on an aquatint made in the early 1800's by George Stubbs...
US$45.00
Fine art print.Features a turtle on a beach.Based on an aquatint from 1807 by William Daniell, which we have carefully restored and enhanced...
US$45.00