# Animals and Wildlife

> Birds, insects, shells and beasts, drawn from natural history engravings and hand-coloured plates.

- **Open the group:** https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/browse/wildlife
- **Collections:** 24
- **Files in total:** 6,604

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## Collections in this group

- [Creatures (1,999 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/creatures.md): Beasts, sea monsters, shells and insects from early natural history engravings.
- [Birds (665 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/birds.md): Songbirds, owls and waterfowl, with the eggs, nests and feathers that go with them.
- [Insects (643 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/insects.md): Butterflies, moths, beetles, dragonflies and bees from hand-engraved entomology plates.
- [Naturalist's Cabinet (5,697 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/mood/naturalist.md): Butterflies, beetles, shells, feathers and birds, drawn the way a collector pinned and labelled them.
- [Birds in Colour (467 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/birds): Hand-coloured ornithological plates: songbirds, waterfowl and the eggs that go with them.
- [Insects in Colour (252 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/insects): Butterflies, moths and beetles from hand-coloured entomology plates, wings at full colour.
- [Butterflies in Colour (291 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/butterflies): Hand-coloured lepidoptera plates: swallowtails, hawk moths and the caterpillars they came from.
- [Shells (668 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/shells): Conchology plates painted from the cabinet: whelks, cowries, scallops and nautilus.
- [Creatures in Colour (212 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/creatures): Beasts, fish and fabled animals printed in full colour from natural histories and bestiaries.
- [Shells and Conchology (1,489 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/motif/shells.md): Whelks, cowries, scallops and nautilus, drawn from the cabinet by the great conchologists.
- [Fish and Ichthyology (456 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/motif/fish.md): Fish drawn for the ichthyologists: river and sea species, scaled and finned in fine line.
- [Reptiles and Amphibians (145 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/motif/reptiles.md): Snakes, lizards, turtles and frogs, from herpetology plates and the ornament that borrowed them.
- [Mammals and Quadrupeds (301 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/motif/mammals.md): Deer, foxes, wolves and bears, as Bewick and his successors cut them into the block.
- [Fossils (99 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/motif/fossils.md): Ammonites, trilobites and shell beds, drawn from the rock by the first palaeontologists.
- [Butterflies and Moths (709 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/motif/butterflies-and-moths.md): Wings opened flat the way a collector pinned them, which is also how they cut.
- [Beetles (319 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/motif/beetles.md): Beetles from the entomology plates, seen from above with the legs tucked in.
- [Crabs and Lobsters (93 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/motif/crabs-and-lobsters.md): Shore creatures out of the natural history plates, claws forward.
- [Horses (93 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/motif/horses.md): Horses under saddle, in harness, and rearing on a shield.
- [Stags and Deer (59 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/motif/stags-and-deer.md): Antlered heads and whole stags, the commonest beast in the heraldry books after the lion.
- [Cats and Dogs (94 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/motif/cats-and-dogs.md): Hounds and house cats, drawn from life by the zoologists and as charges by the heralds.
- [Snakes and Serpents (103 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/motif/snakes-and-serpents.md): Coiled serpents, from the occult emblem books and the zoology plates.
- [Feathers and Plumes (97 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/motif/feathers-and-plumes.md): Single feathers, quills, and the plume badges that stood on a helm.
- [Under the Microscope (89 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/motif/under-the-microscope.md): Diatoms, pollen and thin sections, drawn by people seeing them for the first time.
- [Doves and Pigeons (119 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/motif/doves-and-pigeons.md): Pigeons and doves from the great monographs, perched on a branch and painted feather by feather.

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