Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Giant Octopus (Octopus dofleini) attacking a ship, 1815 copperplate engraving from Bertuch's 'Bilderbuch fur kinder' 16 plate 5. with contemporary colour. 'Colosal Polypus' (octopus) a...

Paul D Stewart / Copperplate engraving of rays with contemporary hand colouring from 'Bilderbuch fur Kinder' by F.J. Bertuch, Weimar, 1795. This book set out to explain and illustrate a range of topics for children.

Paul D Stewart / Copperplate engraving of a Stag Beetle (Lucanus cervus), with hand colouring possibly by Donovan himself. While most plates were thinly coloured to tint the interstices of the lines of the engraving b...

Paul D Stewart / 1853 illustration of Gorilla, contemporary coloured copperplate engraving from 'Das Buch der Welt' John Weik, Stuttgart. The lowland Gorilla was first accurately described outside Africa by the missio...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Wooly Rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) skull, copperplate engraving from the work of Sir Everard Home before 1823.

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) head, skull and horn, copperplate engraving from the work of Sir Everard Home before 1823.

Paul D Stewart / Hand coloured copperplate engraving from William Buckland's contribution to the Bridgewater Treatises ' Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology'. Pickering (1836). In this...

Paul D Stewart / Detail from a folding hand coloured copperplate engraving from William Buckland's contribution to the Bridgewater Treatises ' Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology'. Pic...

Paul D Stewart / 1698 illustration of William Dampier, naturalist, explorer and buccaneer (August 1651 - March 1715). A posthumous 1787 Copperplate engraving by Charles Sherwin after the 1698 painting by T. Murray. On...

Paul D Stewart / Falklands Wolf (Dusicyon australis). 1778 'The Wolf Fox of Faulklands Islands', a copperplate engraving from Commodore Byron's 'An account of a Voyage Round the World'. The Falkland Islands Wolf, Dusi...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of 'Beagle laid ashore, River Santa Cruz'. Copperplate engraving, art by Conrad Martens, engraved by T. Landseer. Published by H. Colburn 1838. Plate from 'The Narrative of the Surveying...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Rafflesia arnoldi, hand tinted copperplate engraving from 'Bilderbuch fur Kinder' BD XI, No 14, plate CLXXIII. c1820 around the time of the flower's first description. The largest sing...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Gibbon (Hylobates lar), 1812 copperplate engraving of a 'lar or long armed ape' (gibbon) from Pantalogia New Cyclopedia, published by Sherwood and Co, Paternoster St. London. Few large...

Paul D Stewart / Three toed sloth (Bradypus tridactylus). Skeleton of a three toed sloth, or 'Ai', copperplate engraving from Cuvier's 'Ossamens Fossiles' 1812. Cuvier saw that the key to understanding fossils was to...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of skeleton of a hippopotamus, (Hippopotamus amphibius) skelton, copperplate engraving from Cuvier's 'Ossamens Fossiles'. Cuvier saw that the key to understanding fossils was to relate th...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of American Mastodon (Mammut americanum) tooth. 'The back grinding tooth of the mammoth or Mastodon of Ohio, weight 4lb and 11oz, drawn and engraved by Springsguth from life'. Forming the...

Paul D Stewart / Copperplate illustration of Giant Ground Sloth by Laurilliard, engraving by Couet, (from Bru), Plate 1 in Cuvier's account in 'Annales du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle' 1804, Vol. 4, No 29. Cuv...

Paul D Stewart / Copperplate engraving of a Stag Beetle (Lucanus cervus), with hand colouring possibly by Donovan himself. While most plates were thinly coloured to tint the interstices of the lines of the engraving b...

Paul D Stewart / 1798 illustration of people excavating Mosasaur (Mosasaur hoffmanii) skull; copperplate engraving with its original handcolouring from Volume III of J.L Bertuch's 'Bilderbuch fur Kinder'. The Maastric...

Paul D Stewart / 1770 illustration of a Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) holding a staff. Copperplate engraving from Buffon's 'Histoire Naturelle' showing a chimpanzee which he called a 'Jocko'.

Paul D Stewart / Copperplate print of human scrotum by Proud in R. Brookes 1763 'The Natural History of Waters, Earths, Stones, Fossils and Minerals etc.'; it seems to have been copied directly from Plot's 1677 plate...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of human Flea (Pulex irritans). 1744 August Johann Roesel von Rosenhof with copperplate art and engraving with handcolouring. From 'Der monatlich-herausgekommenen Insecten-Belustigungen E...

Paul D Stewart / 1744 illustration of a flea by August Johann Roesel von Rosenhof; copperplate art and engraving with handcolouring. From 'Der monatlich-herausgekommenen Insecten-Belustigungen Erste Sammlung' (Insect...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Death's Head Hawk Moth (Acherontia atropos), 1744, by August Johann Roesel von Rosenhof copperplate art and engraving with his own handcolouring and plate correction. From 'Der monatli...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Death's Head Hawk Moth (Acherontia atropos) by August Johann Roesel von Rosenhof with his own copperplate, handcolouring and plate correction, 1744. From 'Der monatlich-herausgekommene...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of extinct fossil giant salamander (Andrias sheuchzeri), first named as Homo diluvii testis (evidence of a diluvian human or witness of the flood) from the work of Johann Jakob Scheuchzer...

Paul D Stewart / Copperplate engraving of mythical hydra with hand colouring by J. Chapman 1806 after engraving by Seba in his 'Treasury of Natural History' (1734). In 1735 a young Linnaeus visited Hamburg. While ther...

Paul D Stewart / Illustrationg of great white shark jaw with fossil shark teeth, copperplate after Nicolas Steno 1667. Steno produced a book 'Head of a shark dissected' from his dissection of a great white shark caugh...

Paul D Stewart / 1674 Copperplate engraving depicting 'Creation of the birds, fishes and large marine life' (Genesis 1. 20-23 Day 5) under the Hebrew divine word of God. 'Let the waters bring forth abundantly the movi...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of a mythical Brazillian animal by Albertus Montanus, 1673. Copperplate from the German edition of his Dutch 'The New World'. A strange creature being pursued by colonials in the jungles...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Gaius Plinius Secundus, army commander, naturalist and author (23AD to 25 August 79AD). Copperplate engraving from Andre Thevet's 'Portraits et vies des hommes illustres' publ Guillaume Ch...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Conrad Gesner (or Gessner) Swiss Natural Historian (1516-1565). His major four volume work Historiae Animalium (1551-1558) is considered the beginning of modern zoology. In it he summarise...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Conrad Gesner (or Gessner) Swiss Natural Historian (1516- 1565). His major four volume work Historiae Animalium (1551-1558) is considered the beginning of modern zoology. In it he summaris...

Wild Wonders of Europe / Lilja / Naples garlic (Allium neapolitanum) flower buds, Akamas peninsula, Cyprus, May 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Lilja / Naples garlic (Allium neapolitanum) flower, Akamas peninsula, Cyprus, May 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe/ Bartocha / Naples Garlic (Allium neapolitanum) in flower, Vieste, Gargano National Park, Gargano Peninsula, Apulia, Italy, April 2008

Wild Wonders of Europe / Bartocha / Pyramidal orchid (Anacamptis pyramidalis) in flower surrounded by Naples Garlic (Allium neapolitanum) Vieste, Gargano National Park, Gargano Peninsula, Apulia, Italy, April 2008

Wild Wonders of Europe / Lilja / Naples garlic (Allium neapolitanum) flowers, Akamas peninsula, Cyprus, May 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Bartocha / Pyramidal orchid (Anacamptis pyramidalis) and Naples Garlic (Allium neapolitanum) in flower, Vieste, Gargano National Park, Gargano Peninsula, Apulia, Italy, April 2008

Wild Wonders of Europe / Bartocha / Pyramidal orchid (Anacamptis pyramidalis) surrounded by Naples Garlic (Allium neapolitanum) Vieste, Gargano National Park, Gargano Peninsula, Apulia, Italy, April 2008

Wild Wonders of Europe / Bartocha / Naples Garlic (Allium neapolitanum) in flower, Vieste, Gargano National Park, Gargano Peninsula, Apulia, Italy, April 2008

Wild Wonders of Europe / Bartocha / Pyramidal orchid (Anacamptis pyramidalis) in flower surrounded by Naples Garlic (Allium neapolitanum) Vieste, Gargano National Park, Gargano Peninsula, Apulia, Italy, April 2008

Wild Wonders of Europe / Bartocha / Pyramidal orchid (Anacamptis pyramidalis) and Naples Garlic (Allium neapolitanum) in flower, Vieste, Gargano National Park, Gargano Peninsula, Apulia, Italy, April 2008

Wild Wonders of Europe / Bartocha / Pyramidal orchid (Anacamptis pyramidalis) surrounded by Naples Garlic (Allium neapolitanum) Vieste, Gargano National Park, Gargano Peninsula, Apulia, Italy, April 2008

Wild Wonders of Europe / Bartocha / Naples Garlic (Allium neapolitanum) in flower, Vieste, Gargano National Park, Gargano Peninsula, Apulia, Italy, April 2008

Wild Wonders of Europe / Bartocha / Pyramidal orchid (Anacamptis pyramidalis) flower surrounded by Naples Garlic (Allium neapolitanum) Vieste, Gargano National Park, Gargano Peninsula, Apulia, Italy, April 2008