Body Collection (#27)

The forward fuselage of the first Lockheed C-5A Galaxy i?
The forward fuselage of the first Lockheed C-5A Galaxy is moved to the body-mate jig at Lockheed-Georgia

Bronze statuette of a Horse - Greek 8th century BC. Date: circa 1930s

Profile portrait of a beautiful Masai woman - Kenya
A stunning profile portrait of a beautiful Masai woman - Kenya. Note the elongated earlobe piercing and remarkably decorative hair braiding. Date: circa 1930s

Pompeii - Italy - Body of a Woman - perfectly preserved in the volcanic ash. Date: circa 1910s

Body confidence of a diminutive ruffian
" Shure, if oi was as big a ye-self oid woipe the flure wid yez, little as oi am!" Date: 1900

Stranded Sea Elephant - Falkland Islands
Stranded Sea Elephant (Southern Elephant Seal) - Falkland Islands Date: circa 1920s

A Victim at Pompeii
A victim of the disastrous explosion of Mount Vesuvius, which buried (and perfectly preserved) the Roman town of Pompeii. Archaeologists discovered voids in the ash

Grandfather Clock from Eda Municipality, Sweden
An unusual piece of Swedish folk art - a Grandfather (literally!) clock from the Eda Municipality (Eda kommun) a municipality in Varmland County in west central Sweden (on the Norwegian border)

Northrop RF-61C (previously designated F-15A), 45-59300, operated by NACA carries a body to altitude. After release, the body exceeded the speed of sound, 24 September 1950

Northrop HL-10 wingless lifting body glides in to land at Edwards AFB, California

Design for Woven Textile with pink flowers. Body colour on brown tracing paper. circa 1895

Design for Textile with flowers. Body colour on brown tracing paper. Silver Studio. circa 1895

F Nazzaro - 1922 French Grand Prix
F Nazzaro on th 90 hp 2 litre six-cylinder Fiat with which he won the 1922 French Grand Prix at an average of 79.2 mph over 499 miles at Strasbourg

Apateon pedestris, amphibian larva
A seven-centimetre-long larval amphibian

Plate 100 by William Ellis
Plate 100 from a collection of watercolour sketches by William W. Ellis (?-1785) made on Captain James Cooks third voyage to explore the south (1776-1780)

Insect body
Micrographia: or, Some physical descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses, with observations and enquiries there upon by Robert Hooke (1635-1703), 1665

Gymnotus carapo, banded knifefish

Nemadactylus macropterus, jackass worwong
Ff. 52 Vol 2. Unfinished watercolour painting by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage to explore the southern continent 1768-1771

Trachelochismus pinnulatus, lumpfish
Ff. 248. Watercolour painting by George Forster made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

LS Plate 163 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Crenicichla wallacii
Plate 45a from Drawings of Fishes of Rio Negro, Vol 1, by Alfred Russel Wallace (1850-1852)

Plate 119 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

LS Plate 176 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Plate 129 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

LS Plate 194 A-D from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Sphoeroides angusticeps, narrow headed puffer
Fish from the Galapagos Islands collected by Charles Darwin from his Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle

Ostracod
Scanning electron microscope image of an ostracod, an arthropod where the body is enclosed in a carapace (x 220)

Hypsilophodon leg
Cross section model to show how Hypsilophodons large, strong leg-moving muscles were concentrated on the thigh and hip to allow the long lower leg to swing fast through a long stride

Pan troglodytes, chimpanzee

Favonigobius sp. goby
Plate 32A from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand Bauer. Study detail of head, body and tail

Pomacanthus imperator, emperor angel fish

Gymnothorax funebris, green moray
Hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby

Watercolour 63 from the Watling Collection
Watercolour 63 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

Iguanodon leg
A model cross section of an Iguanodon leg showing the bones, muscles and foot. The Iguanodon was a mainly a bipedal dinosaur. It required large upper thigh muscles for balance and support

Octopus illustration
Plate 20, watercolour by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker from the plate collection of the Murray Library

Sphoeroides sp. pufferfish
Tableau 23 by Albertus Seba from his Thesaurus, Vol 3, 1759

GUARDI, Francesco (1712-1793). Alexander the Great at the Body of the Persian King Darius. 18th c. Rococo. Painting; Oil on canvas. RUSSIA. Moscow. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

Shahnameh. The Book of Kings. 16th c. The Death of Firoud and his Mother Dherireh (Jarira). She commits suicide over her sons body. Gouache on paper. F02v. Persian art. Safavid period

Zuccari, Federico (1542-1609). An Anatomy Lesson for Artists. ca. 1570. Michelangelo surrounded by other artists showing the Sartorius muscle of a dead body. Mannerism art. Oil on canvas. ITALY

SUREZ de RIBERA, Francisco (s. XVIII). Spanish
" SUREZ de RIBERA, Francisco (s.XVIII). Spanish doctor. Illustration of " Theatro Chyrurgico anatic o del cuerpo del hombre viviente

Anatomical study
A study of female anatomy by Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)

Teak mill - elephant - Moulmein - Steele Bros. Teak Mill - Ellen up! Watched and rode elephants, not as much fun as the Egyptian camels tough body bristles! Date: 1951

Victoria / Last Voyage / 01
Queen Victorias last voyage: her body is carried by a warship Date: 1 February 1901

Medical / Ailments / Rickets
The terrible body deformation caused by rickets. Date: circa 1870

DAEDALUS
Daedalus in flight, with sensibly large wings, and feathers on his body to provide additional lift; note too the practical handles

Bath Salts for Slimmers
Bath salts for a slimmer, fresher body, as recommended by leading doctors. Date: circa 1930

LFCDA-LFB Thermal image camera (TIC) in use
A thermal image camera was deployed at this major building collapse in SW London to help in the search for survivors trapped in the debris

The body of the martyr President, Abraham Lincoln. Lying in state at the City Hall, N.Y. April, 24th & 25th 1865. Date 1865. The body of the martyr President, Abraham Lincoln

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