Anas Gallery

Islamic adventurer known as Mahdi meditating in a cave

Islamic adventurer known as Mahdi meditating in a cave from a Persian manuscript. Mehhdy. Mehhedi. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by L. Giarre after Giulio Ferrario in his Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Il Costume Antico e Modern o Story, Florence, 1842. Copied from Ignace Mouradgea d'Ohsson's Tableau General de L'Empire Othoman, Paris, 1790

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Bar-breasted upland goose, Chloephaga picta leucoptera

Bar-breasted upland goose, Chloephaga picta leucoptera. (White-winged antarctic goose, Anas leucoptera.) A new descript goose from the Falkland Island in the Royal Society. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Peter Brown from his New Illustrations of Zoology, B. White, London, 1776. Date:

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Anas, Antarctic, Bar Breasted, Brown, Chloephaga, Copperplate, Engraving, Falkland, Goose, Handcoloured, Illustrations, Island, Leucoptera, New, Ornithology, Peter, Picta, Royal, Society, Upland, White Winged, Zoology

Northern lapwing, Tringa vanellus, Vanellus vanellus

Blue tit, blue titmouse, Parus caeruleus, Cyanistes caeruleus. . Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books

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1811, Anas, Birds, British, Copperplate, Engraving, George, Graves, Handcolored, Historical, History, Ornithology, Shelduck, Tadorna