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A spider, both enlarged and life size. Coloured engraving.

A red water-spider (Hydrachna coccinea). Coloured engraving.

A giant spider catching crowds of humans in its web; representing tuberculosis. Colour lithograph by B. Cascella, ca. 1920.

Six insects and two spiders, including a cicada adult and nymph, a butterfly and two gnats. Gouache painting.

Allegorical figures hold up two scrolls, separated by a spider's web: one shows a straight line between "Charitas" and "Iustitia"; the other a crooked line between "Invidia" and "Avaritia". Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.

A microscopic animal (Aseroe rubra) and a spider, both with anatomical segments. Engraving by Sparrow, ca. 1792, after J. Piron.

Leaf and flowers of skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidum), a type of mollusc (Doris argo) and a dragon lizard (Draco volans). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1803, after J. Ihle.

A large barbary spider with her young in her web. Etching by J. Pass, ca. 1796, after J. E. Ihle.

A camel surrounded by various named animals, flowers and insects, including a giraffe and flying dragon. Engraving by D. Loggan, 1663, after W. Hollar.

A spider, annoyed by a swallow which was catching all the flies, plans to catch the swallow in its web, but is shown to be deluded when the swallow carries off both the spider and the web; illustration of a fable. Etching by D. Stoop, 1665.

A black spider's web on a black, green, blue, purple, red, orange, yellow and green rainbow ground

A natural history of spiders. And other curious insects / illustrated with fifty three copper plates, engraved by the best hands, by Eleazar Albin.

Assemblée publique de la Societé royale des sciences : tenuë dans la sale de l'hôtel-de-ville de Montpellier, le cinquiéme Decembre mil Sept cens neuf.

The life of the spider / by J. Henri Fabre ; translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos.

Dissertation sur l'utilité de la soye des araignées, en latin et en françois : à laquelle l'on a joint l'analyse chimique de cette soye, avec quelques autres piéces. Qui ont été faites à ce sujet / par Mr. Bon.

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Spiders

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Images referencing Spiders

Works from the collections

A black spider's web on a black, green, blue, purple, red, orange, yellow and green rainbow ground

A natural history of spiders. And other curious insects / illustrated with fifty three copper plates, engraved by the best hands, by Eleazar Albin.

Assemblée publique de la Societé royale des sciences : tenuë dans la sale de l'hôtel-de-ville de Montpellier, le cinquiéme Decembre mil Sept cens neuf.

The life of the spider / by J. Henri Fabre ; translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos.

Dissertation sur l'utilité de la soye des araignées, en latin et en françois : à laquelle l'on a joint l'analyse chimique de cette soye, avec quelques autres piéces. Qui ont été faites à ce sujet / par Mr. Bon.

Spiders

Images from the collections

Images referencing Spiders

Works from the collections

A black spider's web on a black, green, blue, purple, red, orange, yellow and green rainbow ground

A natural history of spiders. And other curious insects / illustrated with fifty three copper plates, engraved by the best hands, by Eleazar Albin.

Assemblée publique de la Societé royale des sciences : tenuë dans la sale de l'hôtel-de-ville de Montpellier, le cinquiéme Decembre mil Sept cens neuf.

The life of the spider / by J. Henri Fabre ; translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos.

Dissertation sur l'utilité de la soye des araignées, en latin et en françois : à laquelle l'on a joint l'analyse chimique de cette soye, avec quelques autres piéces. Qui ont été faites à ce sujet / par Mr. Bon.

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