A stroll through the history of painted animal portraits: domestic ones like Dürer’s hare and Stubbs’ horses; exotic ones like Oudry’s rhino or a Korean tiger; New and Old World birds; pets; bugs; and a unicorn.

Schirmer/Mosel. Ed by Kirsten Claudia Voigt and Lothar Schirmer. 160 pages, 61 colour plates, 16 ill. Size: 26,5 x 32 cm, hardcover. German edition. 2nd reprint.