Flesh Collection

Phasianus colchicus decollatus, common (Chinese ringless) ph
Plate 57 by Joseph Wolf from Daniel Giraud Elliots A Monograph of the Phasianid, or Family of the Pheasants, (1872)

Gracula religiosa indica, lesser hill myna
Plate 73, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Modern Athenians plate 8 - Edinburgh
John Irvine (d. 1839) beautifully described as a " creeping figure, of too solid flesh, so sadly restricted in locomotion". Facing him is Captain Hugo Arnot (d)

Purple Mangosteen - Singapore
The fruits of the purple mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana) - a tropical evergreen tree believed to have originated in the Sunda Islands and the Moluccas of Indonesia

Camels and Iron Horse
NORTH AFRICA : flesh-and-blood camels are alarmed by the iron horse

(Goat) Meat Stall - New Market, Calcutta (Kolkata), West Bengal state, India. The two gentleman on the right are clearly Muslim and therefore practising Halal Butchery. Date: circa 1910s

American Samoa - Pago Pago - production of copra
Pago Pago, Capital of American Samoa - the cultivation of Coconut palms (Cocos nucifera) for the production of copra, the dried flesh of the coconut

Cartoon, Louis Engel and Alexander Henderson
Cartoon, Mr Louis Engel (musician and music critic) and Mr Alexander Henderson (theatre owner and director) - I ll have my bond! (A reference to Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.) 1885

Whaling ship, stripping the flesh

Scenes from Mozambique, 1820s
Vasco da Gama meeting Muslim natives in Mozambique 64, Francisco Barreto tricked over sliver mines by natives at Chicoa, Mozambique 65, and Portuguese cheating natives with trinkets for gold dust 65

Peach fruit, Prunus persica, section through white flesh and red flesh varieties. Handcoloured steel engraving by Debray after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A

Anna Neagle, English actress. Date: 1934

40S AUSSIE BEACH BABE
A skirtless bathing costume composed of a transparent blue lace or net lined with a flesh-coloured jersey. Lightweight, its guaranteed not to hamper the swimmer. Date: 1940

MANDAN HANGING CUSTOM
NATIVE AMERICANS The cutting of young warriors of the Mandan people, hanging from strips of flesh which slowly and painfully tear... Date: 1830s

Dum-dum bullets used during WW1
Dum-dum bullets used during the First World War. As Dr Haydn Brown explains, the bullet breaks up or mushrooms on entering the human target, and causes maximum damage as a result. Date: October 1914

Phasianus colchicus sahwii, common (Yarkand) pheasant
Plate 53 by Joseph Wolf from Daniel Giraud Elliots A Monograph of the Phasianid, or Family of the Pheasants, (1872)

Christmas card with nativity scene: Gloria in Excelsis Deo. And the Word was made flesh, Alleluia. Showing the baby Jesus in the stable, surrounded by angels. Date: circa 1900s

Scarlet flesh rock melon, Cucumis melo cantalupensis.. Handcolored stipple engraving of an illustration by George Brookshaw from his own Pomona Britannica, London, Longman, Hurst, etc. 1817

Thaipusam, Hindu Festival - Singapore - Vel Kavadi
Thaipusam, Hindu Festival, marked by Piercings and Painful Rituals in Singapore. The festival is mainly observed in countries where there is a significant presence of Tamil community such as India

Gracula religiosa, hill myna
Plate 71, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Dermatobia hominis, botfly
The larvae of the flesh eating botfly found on a cow, near Pelotas, Brazil. Photographed by Martin Hall

Salmacis & Hermaphrodite
She loves Hermaphroditus so much, she wants them to become one flesh - which they do, one person with the sexual characteristics of two

Theseus Slays Minotaur
The Minotaur, the monster kept by King Minos in his labyrinth on Crete and fed each year on the flesh of seven youths and seven maidens from Athens, is slain by Theseus

Caricature of Squire Bancroft and Edgar Bruce
Caricature of Sir Squire Bancroft (1841-1926) and Edgar Bruce (1845?-1901), both actor-managers. Bancroft is portrayed as Shylock wanting his pound of flesh

Caricature of Sir Henry Irving as Shylock
Caricature of the English actor and actor-manager Sir Henry Irving as Shylock in Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice. circa 1879

Transubstantiation C1840
Mary, in Heaven, feeds Jesus into a mincer, so that pieces of his flesh come out as wafers for use in the Mass Date: circa 1840

John Bull - Zeppelins 1914
Forewarned. Zeppelin (as The Fat Boy ): " I wants to make your flesh creep!" John Bull: " Right O!" Date: 1914

Wall fountain and bowl.. Chromolithograph by Gillot of an illustration by Edouard Garnier from The Soft Paste Porcelain of Sevres, Maison Quantin, Paris, 1891

Flesh-coloured skull-cap, Scutellaria incarnata.. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and lithographed by Walter Hood Fitch for Sir William Jackson Hookers Curtiss Botanical Magazine, London

Flesh-coloured phlox, Phlox carnea.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn by John Curtis and engraved by Weddell from Curtiss Botanical Magazine, 1820, Samuel Curtis, Walworth, London

Kultur in the Flesh by A Parys
Junkers and Gentlemen, or Kultur in the Flesh. A meeting of the Prussian War Party as depicted by the French artist, A Parys. A not entirely flattering portrait of the German war cabinet. Date: 1915

Cartoon, Russias Thorn in the Flesh, showing a scene in a typical Warsaw cafe on receipt of war news. Date: August 1914

Lophura ignita macartneyi, Tragopan melanocephalus
Plate 70, lithograph by K.I. Brodtmann from Heinrich Rudolf Schinzs Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der V� -Gattungen, (1831-1833)

Lophura nycthemera, silver pheasant
Large Series plate 51, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

The Strawberry
Represents five varieties of the Strawberry. Upper is the Golden-Drop, on the right is the Hautboy, the middle is the Chili Strawberry, and the lower is the Scarlet-Flesh Pine

Tragopan temminckii, Temmincks tragopan
Large Series plate 56, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China. The plant is Gentiana sp

Gallus gallus, red junglefowl
Large Series plate 39, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Vanellus indicus, red-wattled lapwing
Plate 94, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Diatryma steini skull
Specimen of a Diatryma steini skull found in South Elk Creek, Bighorn basin, Wyoming, USA. Lower Eocene, 55-50 million years old

Boulengerula taitanus, taita caecilian tooth
Tooth of the young specialized for peeling mothers skin

Loxodonta africana, African elephant carcass
African elephant viscera, approximately 3-4 days after death, showing abundance of blowfly larvae feeding on the dead tissues. Lower Zambezi National Park, Zambezi Valley, Zambia

Gallus sonneratii, grey junglefowl

Preparation of skeleton material using the larvae of Dermestes maculatus (hind or leather beetle) to eat the flesh

Vanellus miles, masked lapwing
Drawing No. 52, watercolour by George Raper (1792) from The Raper Collection

Dermestes maculatus, flesh-eating beetle
The flesh-eating beetle, also known as the hide or leather beetle. This species has been introduced to the Natural History Museum in order to strip the flesh from carcases to reveal the skeleton

Lophura swinhoii, Swinhoes pheasant
Plate 16 hand coloured lithograph by John Gould and Richard Bowdler Sharpe from John Goulds The Birds of Asia, Vol.7, (1850-83)

Kirkoestrus minutus, botfly
A mounted specimen of the botfly (Kirkoestrus minutus) found in Nwandsi, Kruger National Park. Photographed by Martin Hall

Myiasis species
A collection of adult Myiasis causing fly specimens. Myaisis is the infestation of organs or tissues of the hosting animals. Photographed by Martin Hall

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