Animals: 1,419 Copyright-Free Illustrations of Mammals, Birds, Fish, Insects, etc
By Jim Harter
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1,419 clear wood engravings present, in natural, lifelike poses, over 1,000 species of animals. Included are many different versions of the familiar animals most wanted and used by commercial artists and craftsmen. Arranged according to the following seven categories, the illustrations portray mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, and other invertebrates.
Selected for their visual impact and usability by artist-collagist Jim Harter, these illustrations form one of the most extensive, royalty-free pictorial sourcebooks of animals ever assembled for the specific use of illustrators, graphic designers, craftspeople, decoupeurs, and collagists. Captions give modern common-name identifications, and a thorough index provides immediate access to individual animal pictures. Because of the accuracy and detail of most of the renderings, naturalists will also enjoy browsing through this volume and using it for illustrative purposes.
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Animals - Jim Harter
ANIMALS
1419 Copyright-Free Illustrations
of Mammals, Birds, Fish, Insects, etc.
A Pictorial Archive from Nineteenth-Century Sources
selected by
JIM HARTER
Dover Publications, Inc.
New York
Copyright
Copyright © 1979 by Dover Publications, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Bibliographical Note
Animals: 1419 Copyright-Free Illustrations of Mammals, Birds, Fish, Insects, etc.
is a new work, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 1979.
DOVER Pietorial Archive SERIES
This book belongs to the Dover Pictorial Archive Series. You may use the designs and illustrations for graphics and crafts applications, free and without special permission, provided that you include no more than four in the same publication or project. (For permission for additional use, please write to Permissions Department, Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501.)
However, republication or reproduction of any illustration by any other graphic service, whether it be in a book or in any other design resource, is strictly prohibited.
International Standard Book Number
ISBN-13: 978-0-486-23766-4
ISBN-10: 0-486-23766-4
Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation
23766425
www.doverpublications.com
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
Artists and designers today are finding that pictures rendered in wood engraving, the nineteenth century’s chief illustrative medium, are highly desirable for their own new projects. This elegant black-and-white artwork, which can be simple and bold or can achieve exquisite effects of tonal gradation, sustains no loss in reproduction and is a perfect complement to typography.
Animal illustration, for both instruction and delight, was widely practiced in the era of wood engraving. The pictures in such works as Brehm’s Tierleben (Animal Life), the source of hundreds of items in the present volume, achieved extremely accurate and lifelike results that were unobtainable by photography at that time— even if the photos could have been reproduced in popularly priced works!
Other major sources for the present selection were The Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature (Charles Knight, London), The Riverside Natural History (Houghton Mifflin, Boston), Johnson’s Natural History (Alvin J. Johnson & Son, N.Y.) and the French periodical La Nature.
Mr. Harter, himself a distinguished graphic artist, has chosen material that will be of maximum use to artists. For example, while the variety of different species represented is enormous (over a thousand), special attention has been given to the most familiar animals (such as dog, cat, horse, cow, sheep, pig, chicken, pigeon, rabbit, lion, tiger, elephant), which are illustrated in many breeds, poses and activities.
For the majority of animals included, it has been possible to supply current English common names. In many other cases, where precise identification presented great difficulties, a more generalized caption has been used: for example, a species of sawfish,
a type of duck
or unidentified beetle.
The pictorial interest of these illustrations fully warrants their inclusion, and the generalized identification will certainly be adequate for most purposes.
The extensive index will aid you in locating the type of animal you are looking for and—in hundreds of instances—such very specific animals as side-striped jackal,
great black-backed gull,
criss-cross butterfly-fish
or Reinwardt’s gliding frog.
CONTENTS
MAMMALS
BIRDS
REPTILES
AMPHIBIANS
FISH
INSECTS
OTHER INVERTEBRATES
INDEX
MAMMALS. 1: A type of monkey. 2: Chimpanzee. 3: Colobus monkey. 4: A type of macaque. 5: Spider monkeys. 6: Baby gorilla.
MAMMALS. 7: