Bates Collection

Beetles
Double page spread of pencil and watercolour illustrations and sketches of beetles by Henry Walter Bates

England cricket team of 1885
Cricketers of the England eleven of 1885, with W G Grace at the centre, surrounded by Barnes, Lyttelton, Shrewsbury, Gunn, Bates, Steel, Read, Peate, Barlow and Ulyett. 1885

Gunpowder Plot Conspirators
The Gunpowder Plot - The Conspirators, including Guido (Guy) Fawkes and Robert Catesby. Date: 1605

Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892)
Henry Walter Bates FRS FLS FGS was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals. Born in Leicester 8 February 1825, died London, 16 February 1892

H. W. Bates illustrated notebooks
Plate 7 from a notebook of Henry W. Bates (1825-92) relating to the insect fauna of the Amazon Valley or DRW, 1851-1854

Longhorn beetle

Butterflies from the Amazon by H. W. Bates
A page (p 144) from a notebook of Henry W. Bates relating to the insect fauna of the Amazon Valley or DRW, 1851-1854

Beetle illustrations
Double page spread of pencil and watercolour illustrations of beetles by Henry Walter Bates

Coloured sketches of insects on Page 35 from Bates notebook 1. Bates was a renowned Victorian entomologist

Illustrated notebook of H. W. Bates
A doube page spread from a notebook of Henry W. Bates relating to the insect fauna of the Amazon Valley or DRW, 1851-1854

Advert for Follows & Bates winding machines 1900s
Various machines from the late 19th Century early 20th century, advertised in The Ironmonger Diary and Text Book, for Follows & Bates in Manchester. Circa 1900

Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892) see 51935
Bates collections and notebooks are held at the Natural History Museum, London. Bates is best known for his publication Naturalis on the River Amazon (1863) and his work on mimicry

Examples of mimicry among butterflies
Plate from On the lepidoptera of the Amazon Valley. Transactions of the Linnean Society, by H.W. Bates, 1862

A naturalist being mobbed by Pteroglossus beauharnaesii, cur
Illustration from Henry Walter Bates The Naturalist on the Amazons (1884)

H. W. Bates illustrated notebook
Plate 7 from a notebook of Henry W. Bates (1825-92) relating to the insect fauna of the Amazon Valley or DRW, 1851-1854

Lord Aberconway, John Brown ands J Piggott, Construction of RMS Queen Elizabeth

Construction of RMS Queen Elizabeth launched in 1938 Sir Percy Bates, Lord Aberconway ands J Piggott

RMS Mauretania, ocean liner being launched 1938
The launch of the RMS Mauretania unveiled the name by Lady Bates, wife of the Chairman of the Cunard White Star taking place at Cammell Laird's yard, Birkenhead

The Mariners Return by Mary Fison Bates (1912-1941). 20th century

FALL / TIBETAN MASTIFF / 35
TONYA Owned by P. S. Bates. Date: 1935

Charlotte Rampling in Jean Varon
Actress Charlotte Rampling (born 1946) pictured in her Avengers dress by Jean Varon (designed by British designer John Bates), black and white crepe

Rugger Personalities - Rugby 1920
Rugger personalities by H. Crowther Smith. Includes G. Rowland Hill, Lieut-Colones S. S. D. Craven, B. S. Cumberlege, C. J. B. Marriott, C. N. Lowe, F. C

Candidates for the Republican presidential nomination in Chicago: Bates, Pennington, Chase, Fremont, Lincoln, Seward, Banks, McLean, Cameron, Bell and Clay. Wood engraving (1860)

Woman police officer with children in Croydon
Woman police officer (Constable Bates, 70Z) looking after two young children in Croydon. Date: circa 1950s

William Bates, Divine
WILLIAM BATES Presbyterian churchman, professor of theology. Date: 1625 - 1699

Pigot / Whitehall
LADY EMILY (NEE BENYON) PIGOT British aristocracy - daughter of Samuel Bates Benyon; married (as 2nd wife) Sir Robert Pigot, 4th Bt in 1850 Date: -

The Ultimate Human Being
"..he is the ultimate in human progress...the logical end of mans ambitious climb up from the monkey" (Harry Bates, Alas, all thinking ! ) Date: 1935

Rectory and Offices at Burnham Norfolk
English domestic architecture: elevations of a Rectory and Offices at Burnham Norfolk for the Revd. Mr. Bates. From George Alfred Deans Series of Selected Designs for Country Residences

Part of the frieze of The Institute of Chartered Accountants, Moorgate Place, London - architect John Belcher, assisted by two decorative sculptors Mr Hamo. Thorneycroft R.A

What People Are Wearing - Philomena King
Philomena King wearing a black and white coney coat from the John Bates Avenger collection. Date: 1966

Winslow house, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
The house of General John Winslow in Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA, built in 1730. Date: circa 1905

H. E. Bates
Herbert Ernest Bates (1905 74), British writer and author, best known for The Darling Buds of May, Love for Lydia and My Uncle Silas

Mme Van Der Weyer
MADAME VAN DER WEYER (nee Bates) wife of Sylvain Van de Weyer, Belgian minister in London Date: CIRCA 1840

John Bates Thurston
Sir JOHN BATES THURSTON Colonial governor Date: 1836 - 1897

Grannie Makes Lace
Miss Mary Bates, aged 85, of Clifton Road, Cliftonville, Margate, England, can still see well enough to make lace pillow cases without the aid of spectacles. Date: early 1930s

Portrait of Bates, Henry Walter (1825-1892)
Bates collections and notebooks are held at The Natural History Museum, London. Bates is best known for his publication Naturalis on the River Amazon, 1863 and his work on mimicry

Butterflies painted by H. W. Bates
A butterfly covered page from a notebook of Henry W. Bates relating to the insect fauna of the Amazon Valley or DRW, (1851-1854)

Bates, H. W. Invoice
An invoice for an original manuscript of Insect fauna of the Amazon Valley by Henry W. Bates (1825 to 1892), from Dulau & Co. Ltd. 1917

Letter written by Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823-1913)
Letter from the nineteenth century British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace to Frederick Bates, sent from Singapore in 1856

Methona themisto, bates butterfly
Photograph of a mounted Bates butterfly specimen of (Patia orise), formerly called (Leptalis orise). Specimen collected at Tapajos, Amazon

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