Scottish painter and engraver (1788-1859)

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Above, a lesser spotted shark; middle, a porbeagle; below, a white shark. Coloured engraving by W. H. Lizars.

Boys playing in front of the Edinburgh Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland. Etching by W.H. Lizars after W. Burn, 1823-1836.

A butterfly, a moth and a caterpillar in a meadow. Coloured etching by W. H. Lizars.

An ape of the genus cercocebus fuliginosus kneeling on the ground defecating. Coloured etching by W. H. Lizars.

Brain: horizontal section. Watercolour after(?) W.H. Lizars, ca. 1826.

Brain: dissection showing a section of the right hemisphere. Coloured line engraving by W.H. Lizars, ca. 1827.

Busy street-life in front of Edinburgh University, Scotland. Line engraving by W.H. Lizars, 1829, after T.H. Shepherd.

Above, a flesh coloured fluke; middle, a long tailed imminset; below, a yellow loricaria. Coloured engraving by W. H. Lizars.

Arm and shoulder: two figures of a dissection, with blood vessels and nerves indicated in red and blue. Coloured line engraving by W.H. Lizars, 1822/1826.

Head and face: dissection, with blood-vessels and nerves indicated in red and blue. Coloured line engraving by W.H. Lizars, 1822/1826.

An ape of the genus callithrix sciureus standing on the ground lifting the right arm. Coloured etching by W. H. Lizars.

Above, an edible sea urchin, a star fish and a purple spantangus; below, a common octopus and a large cuttlefish. Coloured engraving by W. H. Lizars.

A dog (coyote?) sitting in a North American forest: two views. Coloured etching by W. H. Lizars after C.H. Smith.

Dissection showing the pregnant uterus. Coloured line engraving by W.H. Lizars, ca. 1827.

Dissection of the male thorax and abdomen, showing the internal organs, including the heart, liver, intestines and reproductive organs. Coloured line engraving by W.H. Lizars, ca. 1827.

A perameles (small marsupial of the family peramelidae) sitting in a patch of grass. Coloured etching by W. H. Lizars.

Ulisse Aldrovandi. Line engraving by W. H. Lizars, 1838.

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William Home Lizars

Images from the collections

Images by William Home Lizars

Works from the collections

A dog (coyote?) sitting in a North American forest: two views. Coloured etching by W. H. Lizars after C.H. Smith.

Dissection showing the pregnant uterus. Coloured line engraving by W.H. Lizars, ca. 1827.

Dissection of the male thorax and abdomen, showing the internal organs, including the heart, liver, intestines and reproductive organs. Coloured line engraving by W.H. Lizars, ca. 1827.

A perameles (small marsupial of the family peramelidae) sitting in a patch of grass. Coloured etching by W. H. Lizars.

Ulisse Aldrovandi. Line engraving by W. H. Lizars, 1838.

Frequent collaborators

William Home Lizars

Images from the collections

Images by William Home Lizars

Works from the collections

A dog (coyote?) sitting in a North American forest: two views. Coloured etching by W. H. Lizars after C.H. Smith.

Dissection showing the pregnant uterus. Coloured line engraving by W.H. Lizars, ca. 1827.

Dissection of the male thorax and abdomen, showing the internal organs, including the heart, liver, intestines and reproductive organs. Coloured line engraving by W.H. Lizars, ca. 1827.

A perameles (small marsupial of the family peramelidae) sitting in a patch of grass. Coloured etching by W. H. Lizars.

Ulisse Aldrovandi. Line engraving by W. H. Lizars, 1838.

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