Database of Scientific Illustrators

Our online database, fully functioning since 2011, now already covers more than 12480 illustrators in natural history, medicine, technology and various sciences in more than 100 countries, active between c.1450 and 1950! Please note that we explicitly exclude still living illustrators.

Welcome to the Database of Illustrators!

Courtesy of the Section for History of Science and Technology, University of Stuttgart !

Our online database, fully functioning since 2011, now already covers more than 12480 illustrators in natural history, medicine, technology and various sciences in more than 100 countries, active between c.1450 and 1950! Please note that we explicitly exclude still living illustrators.

Our extensive search options across the whole database are freely available!

Please click on Browse DSI to browse the database.

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