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Alfred Waterhouse Collection (#5)

Background imageAlfred Waterhouse Collection: Detail from the Waterhouse building of the Natural History M

Detail from the Waterhouse building of the Natural History M
Detail of terracotta panel showing a fox with bird designed by Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905). Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Background imageAlfred Waterhouse Collection: Detail of the Waterhouse Building of the Natural History Mus

Detail of the Waterhouse Building of the Natural History Mus
Detail of terracotta panel designed by Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905). Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Background imageAlfred Waterhouse Collection: The Cromwell Road facade of the Natural History Museum, Lond

The Cromwell Road facade of the Natural History Museum, Lond
Front entrance and Cromwell Road facade of the Natural History Museum, London, designed by Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) in the 1860s, and opened to the public on Easter Monday 1881

Background imageAlfred Waterhouse Collection: Cat design

Cat design
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Background imageAlfred Waterhouse Collection: The Nandu: Rhea linnaei design

The Nandu: Rhea linnaei design

Background imageAlfred Waterhouse Collection: Monkeys pillar design

Monkeys pillar design
Drawing 4 Vol 1 by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of pillars at the Natural History Museum, London, 1875. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s

Background imageAlfred Waterhouse Collection: Eagle design

Eagle design
Drawing 55 Vol 1 by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of panels in windows of first floor south front of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875

Background imageAlfred Waterhouse Collection: Fish and eel design

Fish and eel design
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Background imageAlfred Waterhouse Collection: Hen harrier design

Hen harrier design
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Background imageAlfred Waterhouse Collection: Bird, leaves and chameleon design

Bird, leaves and chameleon design
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. The image also appears in The Gilded Canopy

Background imageAlfred Waterhouse Collection: Great paleotherium

Great paleotherium
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Background imageAlfred Waterhouse Collection: Plants design

Plants design
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Background imageAlfred Waterhouse Collection: Vulpes vulgaris, fox and cormorant designs

Vulpes vulgaris, fox and cormorant designs
Drawing 28 Vol 2 by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1876. (Two separate negatives)

Background imageAlfred Waterhouse Collection: Fish design

Fish design
Panels in the window of the first floor, south front east. Osteolepis and Thursius macrolepidorus. Pencil drawing by Alfred Waterhouse

Background imageAlfred Waterhouse Collection: Black grouse design

Black grouse design
Drawing 31 Vol 2 by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1876. (Two separate negatives)

Background imageAlfred Waterhouse Collection: Goat design

Goat design
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Background imageAlfred Waterhouse Collection: Cibus apella, brown sajou

Cibus apella, brown sajou
Drawing 37 Vol 2 by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the panel over doorway in the South East gallery, first floor of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875

Background imageAlfred Waterhouse Collection: Mazama canepestris guaszuti

Mazama canepestris guaszuti
Drawing 61 Vol 1 by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s

Background imageAlfred Waterhouse Collection: Lion

Lion
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Background imageAlfred Waterhouse Collection: Mammals, birds & leaves

Mammals, birds & leaves
Drawing 33 Vol 1 by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation for the annulet of shaft in the entrance hall of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875

Background imageAlfred Waterhouse Collection: Lepus timideus, hare design

Lepus timideus, hare design
Pencil sketch for the terracotta decoration of the Natural History Museum, London by Alfred Waterhouse 1874-1879. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s

Background imageAlfred Waterhouse Collection: Main Entrance of the Natural History Museum, London

Main Entrance of the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageAlfred Waterhouse Collection: Watercolour drawing of the Natural History Museum, London

Watercolour drawing of the Natural History Museum, London
A watercolour of one of the galleries designed by the architect Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905)

Background imageAlfred Waterhouse Collection: Main entrance and Cromwell Road facade of the Natural Histor

Main entrance and Cromwell Road facade of the Natural Histor
Front entrance and Cromwell Road facade of the Waterhouse building designed by Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905). The Museum opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Background imageAlfred Waterhouse Collection: Main Entrance of the Natural History Museum

Main Entrance of the Natural History Museum
The main entrance illuminated for an evening function at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageAlfred Waterhouse Collection: Detail view of beast designed by Alfred Waterhouse for The W

Detail view of beast designed by Alfred Waterhouse for The W
Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Background imageAlfred Waterhouse Collection: Detail view of beast - designed by Alfred Waterhouse for The

Detail view of beast - designed by Alfred Waterhouse for The
Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881



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