Paul D Stewart / An African/Asian tropical landscape. Reproduced in Lubach and Logeman's 'Panorama der Bewoonde Aarde' (Panorama of the Inhabited World) 1851. This hand tinted folding lithograph references a series of...

Paul D Stewart / A northern temperate European landscape, reproduced in Lubach and Logeman's 'Panorama der Bewoonde Aarde' (Panorama of the Inhabited World) 1851. This hand tinted folding lithograph references a serie...

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 / Orang utan (Pongo pygmaeus) 1731 Physica Sacra (Sacred Physics) by Johann Scheuchzer (1672-1733). The ape is contrasted to 'Hairy Esau' in this folio copper engraving drawn by a team of engravers unde...

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 / 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 / Illustration of War Elephant (Elephas maximus), 1552, The Cosmographia, Book V, by Sebastian Munster (the early latin edition from the Basel printing house of Sebastian Heinrich Petri). Woodcut plate...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration 'Of the Tiger' (Panthera tigris) a 1607 engraving with later tinting from Edward Topsell's 'History of four Footed Beasts'. Topsell produced one of the first printed English Bestiaries, c...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Indian Elephant (Elephas maximus) 'Of the Elephant' a 1607 engraving with later tinting from Edward Topsell's 'History of four Footed Beasts'. Topsell produced one of the first English...

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 / Woodcut illustration of Wolverine (Gulo gulo) or Glutton, squeezing between trees to defecate before resuming feeding. From Conrad Gesner's 'Icones Animalium' published by Christof Froschover, Zurich,...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration of European wolf (Canis lupus). From Conrad Gesner's 'Icones Animalium' published by Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560.

Paul D Stewart / Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) portrait detail from a woodcut with old colouring. Conrad Gesner 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560. Gesner's artist catches the perceived intelligent a...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut of Common electric ray (Torpedo torpedo) with old colouring. From Conrad Gesner's 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560. The torpedo or electric ray had been well know by...

Paul D Stewart / Three toed sloth (Bradypus variegatus) From Conrad Gesner's 'Icones Animalium' published by Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560. This strange animal is derived from an early Spanish conquistador image r...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Sea Serpents from Gessner's 'Historia Animalium', volume 4, 1558. Later hand colouring. Gessner's accounts included creatures which exist, and creatures which we now know do not. There...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Sea Serpents from Gesner's 'Historia Animalium', volume 4, 1558. Later hand colouring. Italic marginalia by contemporary scholar. Gessner's accounts included creatures which exist, and...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut of mythical creature with early colouring from Conrad Gesner's 'Icones Animalium' 1557. Publ. Christof Froshover, Zurich. Gesner takes this image from Breidenbach's 'Journey to the Holy Land'...

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...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration of Crested Porcupine (Hystrix cristata) with colouring. From Gesner's 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560. Of Gesner's many woodcuts this is one of the more...

Paul D Stewart / Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) portrait detail from a woodcut with old colouring. Conrad Gesner 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560. Gesner's artist catches the perceived intelligent a...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut with old colouring of shark and shark tooth fossil from Gesner 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560 (also 1558 in Historiae Animalium, Liber IIII). This is the first West...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration of Flying fish (Exocoetus spp.) with old colouring and paper age toning and staining. From Gesner's 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560.

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut with old colouring of fish. Conrad Gesner 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560. In marked contrast to his exotica which were often fancifully drawn Gesner's woodcuts of f...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration with old colouring of Barbary Macaque monkey (Macaca sylvanus) identified as 'Ein Aff' (An ape). From Gesner's 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560. The divi...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration of whale slaughter with old colouring from Gesner 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Foschover, Zurich, 1560. Gesner appears to derive this image partly from Olaus Magnus 'Historia...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration of whale attacking ship, with old colouring. From Gesner's 'Icones Animalium' published by Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560.

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration of sharks attacking a man, with a ray coming to help, with old colouring. From Gesner 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560. This scene is copied by Gesner fr...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration of a Mole, (Talpa europaea), with original hand colouring from Conrad Gesner 'Icones Animalium' 1560. Before the advent of Linnaeus' binomial latin taxonomic nomenclature such tra...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration of Satyrus marinus - a sea monster or mermaid of partially human form, with old colouring. Gesner 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560. Gesner reproduced thi...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration of Bird of Paradise (Paradisaea). From Gesner's 'Icones Animalium', published by Christof Froschover, Zurich (1560). When Magellan returned as the first to sail around the world i...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration of Black Rat (Rattus rattus), from Volume 1 Conrad Gesner's 1551 Historiae Animalium (here in his Icones Animalium 1560). The black rat's fleas are believed to have carried plague...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Indian/Asian Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis), Gesner Woodcut from 'Icones Animalium' 1560, reproduced from 1551. Published Christoph Froschover, Zurich. Gesner reproduces this image...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut of Auroch (Bos primigenius) from Gesner's 'Icones Animalium' 1560, with later colouring. Published by Christoph Froschover, Zurich. Hirsfogel's near identical picture of the auroch has the ins...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut of Auroch (Bos primigenius), from Gesner's 'Icones Animalium' 1560, reproduced from 1551. Published Christoph Froschover, Zurich. Gesner features both the European bison and auroch - but this...

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...