ANJ4988970: The kidnapping of Ganymede. As he grazed his flock on Mount Ida of Troade, Zeus turned into an eagle, kidnapped him to become his lover, and the song of the gods. Baroque painting by Mattia Preti Il Cavaliere Calabrese (1613-1699). Galleria Pallavicini, Rome., Preti, Mattia (Il Calabrese) (1613-99) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4989138: South American sea lion, Otaria flavescens (Sea lion of the South Seas, Otaria jubata, according to Forster). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Hamilton's Amphibious Carnivora, part of Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Mammalia, Edinburgh, 1839. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4989140: South American sea lion, Otaria flavescens (Sea lion of Pernetty, Otaria pernettii). Falkland Islands. Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Hamilton's Amphibious Carnivora, part of Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Mammalia, Edinburgh, 1839. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4989166: South American sea lion, Otaria flavescens molossina (Falkland Islands sea lion, Otaria molossina). From Lesson's Zoology of the Shell. Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Hamilton's Amphibious Carnivora, part of Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Mammalia, Edinburgh, 1839. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4989376: Black sicklebill, Epimachus fastosus (vulnerable), and common hoopoe. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croix's Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology, Paris, France, 1816-1830. Illustration by J. G. Pretre after Jean Baptiste Audebert, engraved by Massard, directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by F.G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780 ~ 1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History. Turpin (1775-1840) is considered one of the greatest English botanical illustrators of the 19th century. / Bridgeman Images