Paul D Stewart / Illustration of extinct Thylacine / Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacinus cyanocephalus) engraved by W. Lizars. From Jardine's series 'The Naturalist's Library; Mammalia' 1841 ('The Natural History of Marsupial...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Orang utan (Pongo pygmaeus). 1824 contemporary coloured lithograph by Carl Brotdmann of 'Der Orang-Uttang' appearing as table 1 in 'Naturhistorische Abbinldungen der Saeugethiere' by H...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of gibbon, orangutan and chimpanzee. 1824 contemporary coloured lithograph by Carl Brotdmann of 'Der Orang-Uttang', 'Der Hooloch' and 'Der Shimpanzee' appearing as table 1 in 'Naturhistor...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of mythical Papio and man-headed beast. Published in Amsterdam in 1673 by Jacob Von Meurs for Arnoldus Montanusa 'De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld' after the first book related to America b...

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 / Illustration of mythical creature, The Su, 1627 woodblock engraving from Sebastian Munster's account of the New World from the Cosmographia. German edition of 1627 dealing with the navigation of Magel...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration of mythical creature with contemporary colouring from 'Icones Animalium' Publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560. Gesner illustrates a creature captured in the forest of Hanesberg...