Juan Manuel Borrero / Illustration of European Turtle-dove (Streptopelia turtur). Pencil and watercolor painting.

Juan Manuel Borrero / Illustration of Azure-winged Magpie (Cyanopica cyanus). Pencil and watercolor painting.

Juan Manuel Borrero / Illustration of European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). Pencil and watercolor painting.

Juan Manuel Borrero / Illustration of Perez's Frog (Pelophylax perezi). Pencil and watercolor painting.

Juan Manuel Borrero / Illustration of Common Toad (Bufo bufo). Pencil and watercolor painting.

Juan Manuel Borrero / Illustration of Greylag Goose (Anser anser). Pencil and watercolor painting.

Juan Manuel Borrero / Illustration of White Stork (Ciconia ciconia), native to Eurasia and Africa. Pencil and watercolor painting.

Juan Manuel Borrero / Illustration of Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) with wings out stretched. Pencil and watercolor painting.

Juan Manuel Borrero / Illustration of Great Tit (Parus major), native to Eurasia. Pencil and watercolor painting.

Juan Manuel Borrero / Illustration of Iberian Lynx (Lynx pardinus) head and full body, endangered species. Native to Spain. Pencil and watercolor painting.

Juan Manuel Borrero / Illustration of Pyrenean Desman (Galemys pyrenaicus) native to Spain and the Pyrenees of France, vulnerable species. Pencil and watercolor painting.

Juan Manuel Borrero / Illustration of Rosalia Longicorn (Rosalia alpina), vulnerable species, native to Europe. Pencil and watercolor painting.

Juan Manuel Borrero / Illustration of threatened species of birds of Spain. Iberian Guillemot (Uria aalge ibericus), Cantabrian capercallie (Tetrao urogallus cantabricus), White backed woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucotos), Be...

Juan Manuel Borrero / Illustration of threatened species of Spain : Blue whale (Balenoptera musculus), Brown bear (Ursus arctos), Spanish ibex (Capra pyrenaica hispanica), Bullhead (Cottus gobio), Iberian Rock Lizard (Lace...

Juan Manuel Borrero / Illustration of cordgrass (Spartina versicolor). Pencil and watercolor painting.

Juan Manuel Borrero / Illustration of Iberian Wild Goat (Capra pyrenaica hispanica), endemic to Spain. Pencil and watercolor painting.

Juan Manuel Borrero / Illustration of Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) native to Eurasia and North America. Pencil and watercolor painting.

Juan Manuel Borrero / Illustration of Hermann's Tortoise (Testudo hermanni), native to Southern Europe, Near Threatened species. Pencil and watercolor painting.

Juan Manuel Borrero / Illustration of Mediterranean Turtle (Mauremys leprosa) native to Mediterranean, from North western Africa to Iberia, Pencil and watercolor painting.

Juan Manuel Borrero / Illustration of Common Crane (Grus grus) native to Europe and Asia, pencil and watercolor painting

Juan Manuel Borrero / Illustration of Little Owl (Athene noctua) native to Europe and Asia. Pencil and watercolor painting.

Paul D Stewart / 1837 illustration of Greenland / Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus) breaching, from Jardine's 'Naturalist's Library', Whales, Plate 23 Volume VI, from artwork of Stewart engraved by W. H. Lizars. Ori...

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Group of tourists wearing waterproof clothing and life jackets for boat seabird safari tour around Bass Rock, North Berwick, Firth of Forth, Lothian, Scotland, UK, August 2011

Ernie Janes / Victorian vegetable seed packets, chart, UK

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Kenojuaq Ashevak, an internationally acclaimed Inuit artist at home in Cape Dorset. Nunavut, Canada, 2002. Editorial use only.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Painting on the side of a house creating illusion of passageway, Punta Arenas, Chile, January 2006.

Sandesh Kadur / A stylised image of a tiger painted on the pillar of a building. Bhutan, May 2008.

Juergen Freund / Karst limestone formations with ancient pictographs (rock / cave paintings) of fish and sea creatures. Sunmalelen area, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia, January 2010.

Juergen Freund / Ancient pictographs (rock / cave paintings) of fish and sea creatures on karst limestone formations. Sunmalelen area, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia, January 2010.

Juergen Freund / Karst limestone formations with ancient pictographs (rock / cave paintings) of fish and sea creatures. Sunmalelen area, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia, January 2010.

Juergen Freund / Karst limestone formations with ancient pictographs (rock / cave paintings). Sunmalelen area, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia, January 2010.

Juergen Freund / Ancient pictographs (rock / cave paintings) of fish and sea creatures on karst limestone formations. Sunmalelen area, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia, January 2010.

Juergen Freund / Karst limestone formations with ancient pictographs (rock / cave paintings) of fish and sea creatures. Sunmalelen area, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia, January 2010.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Mural of Emperor penguins descending stairs on a pavement in Ushuaia, Argentina, February 2009.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Illustration of Benjamin Franklin's 1825-1827 expedition to Richards Island, Canadian Arctic Islands, Canada.

Julian Hume / Illustration of extinct parrots. Clockwise from top right: Cuban red macaw (Ara tricolor) - extinct 1864,Cuba,West Indies; Jamaican red macaw (Ara gossei) - extinct 1765,Jamaica,West Indies; Rodrigues...

Chris Shields / Illustration of Asian wildlife: Red panda (Ailurus fulgens) - endangered / threatened species; Snow leopard (Panthera / Uncia uncia) - endangered / threatened species; Himalayan / Impeyan monal (Lopho...

Christophe Courteau / Rock carvings of wild animals including giraffe and lion made by the San / bushman people, approx 2000 years old, Twyfelfontein, Damaraland. Namibia, August 2009

Christophe Courteau / Rock carvings of wild animals including giraffe and lion made by the San / bushman people, approx 2000 years old, Twyfelfontein, Damaraland. Namibia, August 2009

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Dogon Cave Painting. Mali, West Africa, 1981.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Dogon Cave paintings. Mali, West Africa, 1981.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / 19th century print of breaching Greenland / Bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) being chased by whaling boat.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / 19th century print of breaching Greenland / Bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) being chased by whaling boat between icebergs.

Niall Benvie / Portrait of Centipede (Scolopendra) with text added to look like book plate. Photo taken in Spain, Europe

Niall Benvie / Photograph of Alpine penny-cress (Thlaspi caerulescens) manipulated and text added to represent illustrated book page. Scotland, UK, July

Niall Benvie / Photograph of Alpine rock-cress (Arabis alpina)manipulated and text added to represent illustrated book page. Scotland, UK, July

Niall Benvie / Backlit broad leaved dock (Rumex longifolius) leaf sections combined to create one image with text.

Niall Benvie / Male and female Stag beetle (Lucanus cervus) Photograph with text inserted, and manipulated to appear as book illustration, England, UK

Nick Upton / Crocodile pool sand sculpture on a sandy beach at low tide, Rhossili Beach, The Gower Peninsula, Wales

Niall Benvie / Bluebell flowers {Hyacinthoides non-scripta} photograph appearing as book illustration

Niall Benvie / Yellow Lady's slipper orchids {Cypripedium calceolus} in flower, France, photograph appearing as book illustration

David Tipling / Tim Appleton showing children bird illustrations in a field guide, Narra, Palawan, Philippines, March 2009

Juan Carlos Munoz / Marine iguana painted on the wall of a Hotel in Puerto Villamil, Isabela Island, Galpagos, January 2009

Eric Baccega / Peter de Sausmarez, here with his ancestor's portraits. His family has lived on the island since 1120 and he is the last seignior who still lives in his ancestral property: Sausmarez Manor and Gardens...

Eric Baccega / Map of Herm beside road. Herm, Channel Islands, May 2009.

Paul D Stewart / Illustration from Punch 41 (1861) page 34, July. 'The age of the comet ascertained to a nicety. The antediluvians recognise an old acquantance of A.M. 1372'. Prehistoric reptiles (modelled after Water...

Paul D Stewart / The 'leisure Hour' January 1859, a pickled gorilla propped up with stick from the barrel in which it was preserved. It is a specimen from Paul Du Chaillu intended (as the label on the barrel lid state...

Paul D Stewart / Coloured lithograph of plesiosaur and ichthyosaur, a contemporary continental version of the wall chart by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins entitled 'Waterhouse Hawkins Diagrams of the Extinct Animals'. He...

Paul D Stewart / A swan orchid 'Cycnoches' in gilt on the front cover of the first edition (plum, ribbed) of 'On the Various Contrivances by which Orchids are fertilised by Insects and the good effects of intercrossin...

Paul D Stewart / 'Swan Orchid' (Cyncnoches sp.) by Charles Darwin, 1862 first issue (idnentified by gilt orchid and ridged plum cloth) or 'On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilise...

Paul D Stewart / 1862 illustration of Megalosaurus, a wallchart after Waterhouse Hawkins with Pterosaurs in background. One of six wall charts entitled 'Waterhouse Hawkins's Diagrams of the Extinct Animals' for the De...

Paul D Stewart / Illustartion of series of primate skeletons, the frontis engraving by Waterhouse Hawkins from the first edition of Huxley's 1863 'Evidences as to Man's Place in Nature'. In this book Huxley presented...

Paul D Stewart / Lithograph with contemporary colouring, continental version of the wallchart produced by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins for the Department of Science and Art 1862. It includes elements of the fourth and...

Paul D Stewart / Lithograph with later hand colouring combining two of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins' six wall posters 'Waterhouse Hawkins Diagrams of the Extinct Animals' produced for the Department of Science and Art...

Paul D Stewart / Chromolithograph illustration of Cromagnon 'Skull of an old man' Plate 1, Section C. Edouard Lartet and Henry Christy. 'Reliquiae Aquitanicae' 1865-1875, Williams and Norgate, London 1875. The type sp...

Paul D Stewart / 1854 Megalosaurus model by Waterhouse Hawkins. Hawkins attempted to scientifically reconstruct dinosaurs for the Crystal Palace Geological Gardens at Sydenham 1852-1855. He was helped by Richard Owen,...

Paul D Stewart / 1854 Iguanodon model by Waterhouse Hawkins. Hawkins attempted to scientifically reconstruct dinosaurs for the Crystal Palace Geological Gardens at Sydenham 1852-1855. He was helped by Richard Owen, th...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration, carving of Woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius); lithograph of a mammoth carved on mammoth ivory from the Perigord. Published and first announced in 1865 in the 'Annales des Sciences N...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Laelaps (Dryptosaurus) confronting Elasmosaurus with Hadrosaurus foraging in the background. From Edwin Drinker Cope 'The fossil reptiles of New Jersey' in 'American Naturalist' vol 3...

Paul D Stewart / Chromolithograph illustration of perforated Cromagnon 30,000 ybp ornaments (shell, ivory), by Edouard Lartet and Henry Christy. 'Reliquiae Aquitanicae' 1865-1875, Williams and Norgate, London 1875. Th...

Paul D Stewart / Great Argus Pheasant feather (Argusianus argus). Composite photograph of Argus secondary wing feather left and right Fig 56. Page 143 Vol II of Charles Darwin 'The Descent of Man and Selection in Rela...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration from Harpers Weekly, August 14th 1869 'Palaeozoic Museum, showing the rehabilitated forms of ancient animal life in america now being constructed in Central Park'. Wood cut from Benjamin...

Paul D Stewart / Carvings on reindeer antler and other bone material dated to the end of the last ice age, between 10, 000 to 17, 000 years ago (Magdalenian); plate from Edouard Lartet and Henry Christy 'Reliquiae Aqu...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of iguanodon and megalosaurus by Riou in the revised English 1867 translation of Louis Figuier's 'Earth before the Deluge' 1863. The figure shows impressions after the collaboration betwe...

Paul D Stewart / 'L'homme descend du singe' cartoon caricature by Andre Gill, 18th August, 1878, La Lune, Paris. Gill shows a monkey with the face of French materialist Emile Littre encouraging a similarly simian Darw...

Paul D Stewart / Two of Darwin's staunchest supporters in the field during a trip to the Rockies in 1877. Left (seated) British botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker, the director of Kew and one of Charles Darwin's close frie...

Paul D Stewart / Two of Darwin's staunchest supporters in the field during a trip to the Rockies in 1877. Centre (seated) British botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker, the director of Kew and one of Charles Darwin's close fr...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Javan Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus) in an article by P.L Sclater on the Rhinoceros in captivity in London Zoo (Trans Zool Soc Vol9 Pl. XCVI). Fine contemporary coloured lithograph...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of 'Prof. Darwin' coloured lithograph by Faustin Betbeder, with original Shakespeare quotes in text below. Front page of the 'Figaro' paper N. 475, London Wednesday February 18th 1874. It...

Paul D Stewart / Photograph of Charles Darwin taken by his son Leonard around 1874 when Darwin was in his mid sixties. It appeared in 'Charles Darwin. A Paper Contributed to the Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeol...

Paul D Stewart / High resolution steel engraving portrait of Charles Darwin by C.Cook, printed by William Mackenzie, the Scottish printer and publisher in 1899. It appears in James Taylor's 'The Victorian Empire' and...

Paul D Stewart / Hand coloured photograph of Darwin in old age by Paul Stewart based on the 1879 photograph by Elliot and Fry. According to Gene Kritsky, who maintains an archive of Darwin photographs, the Elliot and...

Paul D Stewart / Photographic portrait of Richard Owen (20, July 1804- 18 December 1892). Woodburytype photograph by Lock & Whitfield published in 'Men or Mark' 1878. Owen was a comparative anatomist and palaeontologi...

Paul D Stewart / Hand coloured image of Charles Darwin by Paul Stewart derived from the photograph of Darwin taken by Elliot and Fry in 1881 shortly before his death.

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Permian swamp showing Archegosaurus amphibians and Palaeoniscis fish among large Lepidodendron (2 right) and Sageneria (3 left) trees. Vivid colour lithograph from 'Dr. Schubert's Natu...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration from Flammarion's 'Le Monde avant la Creation de l'Homme'. This is the first dinosaur (Iguanodon) reconstruction to put them in a modern context to show their size. In this case getting a...

Paul D Stewart / Illustrated portraits of Richard Owen (20, July 1804- 18 December 1892) and Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 - 29 June 1895). Linley Sambourne's illustration for the new 1885 Macmillan edition of Kings...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Richard Owen (20, July 1804- 18 December 1892); 1883 portrait in his home study for The Graphic magazine, in the year he retired from the BMNH. Owen was a comparative anatomist and palaeon...

Paul D Stewart / 1881 portrait of Charles Robert Darwin ( 12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882), English Naturalist and author of the Origin of Species. 1922 Hand coloured portrait aquatint of Darwin by G. Sidney Hunt aft...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of cave man protects his mate and child from a marauding cave bear. He wields a hafted axe (from a later period) before a trophy skull of irish elk. Vivid colour lithograph from 'Dr. Schu...

Paul D Stewart / Vivid colour illustrated lithograph for 'Dr. Schubert's Naturgeschichte - Geologie, Mineralreich, Palaontologie'. Published in Stuttgart by J.F. Shreiber, the palaeontology section by Dr. Friedrich Ro...

Paul D Stewart / 19th century lithograph illustration of a Jurassic landscape including the dinosaurs: Megalosaurus (1), Iguanodon (2 with incorrect nose spike), Hylaeosaurus (3 with incorrect orientation of spines) L...

Paul D Stewart / Vivid colour lithograph illustration for 'Dr. Schubert's Naturgeschichte - Geologie, Mineralreich, Palaontologie'. Published 1888 in Stuttgart by J.F. Shreiber, the palaeontology section by Dr. Friedr...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Richard Owen (20, July 1804- 18 December 1892), 1889 mezzotint by H.J. Thaddeus with contemporary face but pose taken from an earlier 1852 photograph with dinosaur. Owen was a comparative...

Paul D Stewart / Landscape of the Triassic coastal environment with reconstructions of dinosaurs and marine reptiles, 'Dr. Schubert's Naturgeschichte - Geologie, Mineralreich, Palaontologie'. Published in Stuttgart 18...

Paul D Stewart / Pithecanthropus europeaus alalus (european speechless ape-man) by Gabriel Max, 1894, reproduced as Photogravure Plate 29 in Ernst Haeckel 'Naturliche Schopfungs-Geschichte' (Natural History of Creatio...