Animals & Insects

Fascinating piece of original art from India. Bird of prey painted with gouache on a government stamp. Sanskrit is written on the front and back of the art.

Fascinating piece of original art from India. Bird of prey painted with gouache on a government stamp. Sanskrit is written on the front and back of the art.

This beautiful antique hand-colored engraving comes from the French publication "Tableau encyclopedique et methodique des trois regnes de la nature - Ornithologie.", published in 1790 by Charles-Joseph Panckoucke.  The encyclopedia the engraving is...

This beautiful antique hand-colored engraving comes from the French publication "Tableau encyclopedique et methodique des trois regnes de la nature - Ornithologie.", published in 1790 by Charles-Joseph Panckoucke.  The encyclopedia the engraving is...

This beautiful antique hand-colored engraving comes from the French publication "Tableau encyclopedique et methodique des trois regnes de la nature - Ornithologie.", published in 1790 by Charles-Joseph Panckoucke.  The encyclopedia the engraving is...

This beautiful antique hand-colored engraving comes from the French publication "Tableau encyclopedique et methodique des trois regnes de la nature - Ornithologie.", published in 1790 by Charles-Joseph Panckoucke.  The encyclopedia the engraving is...

This beautiful antique hand-colored engraving comes from the French publication "Tableau encyclopedique et methodique des trois regnes de la nature - Ornithologie.", published in 1790 by Charles-Joseph Panckoucke.  The encyclopedia the engraving is...

This beautiful antique hand-colored engraving comes from the French publication "Tableau encyclopedique et methodique des trois regnes de la nature - Ornithologie.", published in 1790 by Charles-Joseph Panckoucke.  The encyclopedia the engraving is...

This beautiful antique hand-colored engraving comes from the French publication "Tableau encyclopedique et methodique des trois regnes de la nature - Ornithologie.", published in 1790 by Charles-Joseph Panckoucke.  The encyclopedia the engraving is...

This beautiful antique hand-colored engraving comes from the French publication "Tableau encyclopedique et methodique des trois regnes de la nature - Ornithologie.", published in 1790 by Charles-Joseph Panckoucke.  The encyclopedia the engraving is...

This beautiful antique hand-colored engraving comes from the French publication "Tableau encyclopedique et methodique des trois regnes de la nature - Ornithologie.", published in 1790 by Charles-Joseph Panckoucke.  The encyclopedia the engraving is...

"Noble Parrot Maccaw". This beautiful hand-colored engraving comes from the Scottish ornithologist Sir William Jardine’s "The Naturalist’s Library Vol. VI - Parrots, published in 1836.  The illustration was drawn by Edward Lear (who was...