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Hirundo rustica, barn swallowPlate 89 from Sir William Jardines The Naturalists Library. Original Drawings. Birds
Titus (39-81 AD). Roman Emperor. Bust. MarbleTitus (39-81 AD). Roman Emperor. Flavian dynasty. Bust. Marble. 70-80 AD. From Utica, near Carthage. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom
Margaret Vergh Gryffyth, horned womanMargaret Vergh Gryffyth, Welsh woman who exhibited herself with a 10 centimetre horn growing from her forehead
Dendrocopos major, great spotted woodpeckerPlate 26 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)
Sterna albifrons, little ternPlate 73 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Orson Welles / ColumbiaORSON WELLES American film actor, producer and director
Varese Shoes 1928A smiling young lady with a kiss curl on her forehead holds aloft a dainty pair of court style shoes with an ankle strap
Tarot Card 15 - Le Diable (The Devil). Date: 20th century
Pathan Dancing Girls, Peshawar, Pakistan - NWFP (North West Frontier Province).. Date: circa 1909
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Gun shooting over Navarre
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Battle of Brunete (July 1937). Soldiers facing an attack of artillery and red aviation in the point 333. Drawing
Samuel Beckett, Irish playwright, novelist and poetSamuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish avant-garde playwright, novelist and poet. Photographed in the year he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Date: 1969
Rupert Murdoch, media magnateRupert Murdoch (Keith Rupert Murdoch, b 1931), Australian-born American media magnate and the founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of News Corporation. Date: 1981
Comic postcard, Sale of wrong product - customer and barber Date: 20th century
Cuckoo-pint, Arum maculatumCuckoo-pint or wild arum, flower and fruit, Arum maculatum, Linn. Grand pied de veau non macule. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Jean Victor Dupin junior from Pierre Joseph Buchoz Herbier
Watchmaker at Work Date: 1950
Centropus ateralbus, pied coucalPlate 34 from Louis-Isidore Duperreys Voyage de la Coquille 1822-1825, Zoologie Atlas, (1826). From drawings made during his voyage to Chile, Peru, Polynesia, Indoneasia
St Michaels Fireworks Factory, Lija, Malta -- close-up of a workman. Lija is well known for its firework displays, especially during the early August festival period. Date: 1966
Chinook familyChinook tribe, showing a man and woman carrying their baby on the mothers back, a method of flattening the babies forehead was used
Grus japonensis, red-crowned cranePlate 61, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China
John Le Carre (David Cornwell)John le Carr (pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell, b 1931), English author of spy novels, many of which have been adapted for television and film. He worked for MI5 and MI6 in the 1950s and 1960s
Young man at fancy dress party, dressed as a punk (based on the character of Vyvyan in the BBC TV programme, The Young Ones). Date: circa 1980s
Victorian scrap - The Old EarlVictorian Scrap - The Old Earl. late 19th century
P th Cochon DuvivierP TH COCHON DUVIVIER French medical(?) Date: -
Ben Jonson / Cooke / OliverBEN JONSON English playwright and poet Date: 1572 - 1637
Ben Jonson / London MagBEN JONSON English playwright and poet Date: 1572 - 1637
Falco longipennis, Australian hobbyWatercolour 105 by the Port Jackson Painter from the Watling Collection titled Lunated Falcon, Goo-roo-wang
Children playing doctors and nurses, Balham, SW LondonFour children playing doctors and nurses on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961
Cartoon, Convalescent leave, WW1Cartoon, Convalescent leave, showing two girls chatting to a little boy dressed as a soldier who has a bandage on his knee
Advert for Condor hats 1923The vivacious charm of Condor hats. Cloche hat designed to be worn low on the forehead, with the wearers eyes only slightly below the brim, lad ended with floral flowers to the side
Middle-aged man with a pipe
Advert for Eugene permanant hair waving 1923Naturally wavy hair in 2 and a half hours. From straight to naturally curly hair in 2 and a half hours! Permanent curls and waves, soft and exquisitely becoming - glowing with life and colour
Mary Losseff (1907 - 1972) Russian singer and film actress 1937
Workman standing outside a buildingA middle-aged workman in dirty clothes, standing outside a building with his glasses on his forehead
Edward Thompson TaylorEDWARD THOMPSON TAYLOR American churchman, with his spectacles pushed up on his forehead. Date: 1793 - 1871
Summer in the CityA gentleman in a waistcoat wipes his forehead during a London heatwave. The two women either side of him, wearing coats and hats, do not seem to feel the heat! Date: early 1930s
Fulica atra, common cootPlate 84 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Phoenicurus phoenicurus, common redstartPlate 51 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 2 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Aratinga strenua, Pacific parakeetPlate 26 from Edward Lears Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae or Parrots (1832). Hand coloured lithograph
Porphyrio porphirio poliocephalus, purple swamphenPlate 93, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)
Cheddar ManThe skull of Cheddar Man. This skull is approximately 10, 000 years old. The hole in the forehead may have been caused by infection and also possibly be the cause of death
Nettapus coromandelianus, cotton teal
Scolopax rusticola, Eurasian woodcockPlate 77 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Platycercus caledonicus, green rosellaFf. 16, watercolour by William Ellis from a collection of sketches of Mammals, Birds and Fish made on Captian James Cooks third voyage (1776-1780)
Aratinga wagleri minor, scarlet-fronted parakeet
Human Brain Display
Merops apiaster, European bee-eaterPlate 144 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)