Antique animal and reptile prints by George Shaw 1800-1819

Plate 12 Vampyre [Vampire] Bat in two attitudes $25	Plate 13 Three-toed Sloth	Plate 15 Three-banded Armadillo Nine-banded Armadillo $25
Plate 16 Manis Tetradactyla or Long-tailed Pangolin Manis Pentadactyla or Short-tailed Pangolin $20	Plate 17 Great Anteater $25	Plate 18 Two-toed Anteater Porcupine Anteater $25
Plate 20 Beak & Feet of the Platypus $20	Plate 21 Striped Hyaena (Striped Hyena) $25	Plate 23 Striated var. of Mephitic Weasel Egyptian Ichneumon $20
Plate 24 Virginian Opossum $25	Plate 25 Petaurine Opossum Lemurine Opossum $20	Plate 26 Pygmy Opossum $20
Plate 31 Hamster Blind Rat $25	Plate 32 Common Jerboa $20	Plate 33 Syrian Hyrax Cape Hyrax $20
Plate 36 Elk [Moose?] $30	Plate 37 Yak $25	Plate 37 Arabian Camel $30
Plate 38 Musk $20	Plate 39 Common Antelope male and female $25	Plate 43 Tapir $20
We have many more of Shaw's copperplate engravings (this is all of Shaw's mammals have) ...please see the Natural History page for Shaw's fish, insects, reptiles, etc. See also the Shaw/Nodder mammals . Click here to return to the Natural History page

George Shaw (1751-1813) was a notable English botanist and zoologist. Shaw was a initially a medical practitioner. He became the assistant lecturer in botany at Oxford University and keeper of the natural history department at the British Museum. He was a co-founder of the Linnean Society was a fellow of the Royal Society. He is also well known these days for the colored prints of animals he published in The Naturalist's Miscellany with Mr. Nodder.