Juan Manuel Borrero / Illustration of Bittersweet (Solanum dulcamara). Detail of leaves and fruit. Pencil and watercolor painting.

Juan Manuel Borrero / Illustration of European pilchard (Sardina pilchardus). Pencil and watercolor painting.

Juan Manuel Borrero / Illustration of human evolution from left to right Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus africanus, Homo erectus and Homo sapiens. Pencil and watercolor painting.

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...

David Tipling / The Conference of the Birds by Habiballah. Detail from page of a manuscript of the Mantiq al-Tayr (The Language of the Birds) of Farid al-Din Attar, circa 1600, Safavid, Isfahan, Iran.

David Tipling / Watercolour portrait of a young falconer from India, late 1500's.

David Tipling / Opaque watercolour painting from mid 1700's depicting Chand Bibi hawking. Chand Bibi (1547-99) was the queen of an Islamic sultanate in central India..

David Tipling / The emperor Jahangir and a page with falcons, watercolour dating to around 1615. Falconry was a popular and prestigious sport amongst Mughal rulers and the elite.

David Tipling / Red-billed Tropicbird (Paethon aethereus) watercolour by John White - 16th century.

David Tipling / The Conference of the Birds byHabiballah. Detail from page of a manuscript of the Mantiq al-Tayr (The Language of the Birds) by Farid al-Din Attar, circa 1600, Safavid, Isfahan, Iran.

Juan Manuel Borrero / Illustration of Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) portrait and flying. Pencil and watercolor painting.

Juan Manuel Borrero / Illustration of Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum). Pencil and watercolor painting.