1300 Real and Fanciful Animals from Seventeenth-Century Engravings (Dover Pictorial Archive)

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A painter whose father used to be an engraver and publisher of the similar name, Matthäus Merian (1621–1687) published this remarkable group of ordinary and highly imaginative animal illustrations. This copyright-free collection includes a big and fascinating number of engravings that illustrate scientific specimens and legendary creatures ― all meticulously reproduced from an extremely rare eighteenth-century edition.
Carefully arranged into six major divisions (quadrupeds, snakes, mollusks and crustaceans, fish, birds, and insects), approximately 1,300 copyright-free images include realistic and fanciful portrayals of a varied array of real animals, along with such imaginary creatures as unicorns, dragons, basilisks, harpies, griffins, and other mythical beasts. Identifying captions in Latin accompany the various illustrations.
Commercial artists, illustrators, and craftspeople will find a host of uses for these lovingly detailed engravings: as book and magazine illustrations and as attention-getting graphics ideal for enhancing flyers, brochures, newsletters, and any choice of other print projects. Art lovers and antiquarians ― someone with an interest within the art and ideas of an earlier era ― will enjoy browsing through these wonderful antique images.

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