Lark Collection

A skylark soars above the trees 2011

CALANDER SAYS NO
The CALANDER (a kind of lark) knows if sick people will recover ; held over the sickbed, if it turns towards the patient s/he will recover, if not (as here) s/he won't

Scene of Schubert's Serenade
Schubert's Serenade - Horch, horch, die Lerch.. (Hark, hark, the lark) Date: 1917

Comic postcard, Birds with nest of eggs
Comic postcard, Birds with nest of three eggs, one of them a different colour Date: 20th century

Photograph of Lamb & Lark Inn, Yeovil, Somerset. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Face on view of the pub

Reed-bird or bobolink, Dolichonyx oryzivorus, male 1, female 2. Chromolithograph after an ornithological illustration by John James Audubon from Benjamin Harry Warrens Report on the Birds of

Richards pipit and horned or Przewalskis lark
Richards pipit, Anthus richardi, and horned or Przewalskis lark, Eremophila alpestris, Eremophila teleschowi. Handcoloured engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles

Australasian pipit, Anthus novaeseelandiae (New Zealand lark, Alauda novae zealandiae). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester

Temmincks lark, Eremophila bilopha
Temmincks lark or Temmincks horned lark, Eremophila bilopha (Double-crested lark, Alauda cilopha, Tem.). Handcoloured engraving from Edward Griffiths The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London

Field lark, Alauda minor (or Tree pipit, Anthus trivialis).. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his own Natural History of British Birds, London, 1794-1819

MYTTON AS HWAYMAN
JOHN MYTTON After dining at Halston House the doctor & clergyman are held-up at gun-point by Mytton disguised as a smock-wearing highwayman. What a lark! Date: 1796 - 1834

SING SOARING LARK / GRIMM
The lion confronts the traveller who tries to steal the lark Date: circa 1905

SAI KZ VII Laerke OY-aZ
SAI KZ VII Laerke (Danish: Lark) OY-aZ of Hammers Luftfart, somewhere in Denmark. (SAI- Skandinavisk Aero Industri) Date: 1950s-1960s

SAI KZ VII Laerke OY-AIR
SAI KZ VII Laerke (Danish: Lark) OY-AIR, somewhere in Denmark. (SAI- Skandinavisk Aero Industri) Date: 1950s-1960s

SAI KZ VII Laerke OY-ACC
SAI KZ VII Laerke (Danish: Lark) OY-ACC, somewhere in Denmark. (SAI- Skandinavisk Aero Industri) Date: 1950s-1960s

SAI KZ VII Laerke OY-SAI
SAI KZ VII Laerke (Danish: Lark) OY-SAI, somewhere in Denmark. (SAI- Skandinavisk Aero Industri) Date: 1950s-1960s

SAI KZ-3 OY-DEB, at London Gatwick, in 1949
SAI KZ-3 OY-DEB, (SAI - Skandinavisk Aero Industri A-S, Denmark), at Gatwick airport in 1949. The SAI KZ III Laerke (Lark)

Larkhill Camp, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire
The Royal School of Artillery (RSA), formerly the School of Instruction for Royal Horse and Field Artillery (Larkhill), is the principal training establishment for artillery warfare in the British

Marie Hall (1884 1956), English violinist, pupil of Elgar, gave first performance of Vaughan Williams The lark ascending (1920)

Sychronised Swimming Team - sky-larking again
Bournemouth, Dorset - female members of the Aquashow Sychronised Swimming Team - sky-larking again up a tree! Date: 1962

Up With The Lark
Promotional postcard for Up With The Lark adapted by Douglas Furber from Le Zebre (see The Glad Eye above); music Philip Bra-ham

Blue tit, Parus caeruleus, and crested lark, Galerida cristata.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology, Paris, France

Wood lark, Lullula arborea.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821

Horned / Shore Lark - fledgling juvenile (Eremophila alpestris). July - Taimyr tundra - near Dickson - Russian Arctic

Sinking of German ship, Konigin Luise, by G. H. Davis
The sinking of the German mine layer, Konigin Luise, off Harwich in the early stages of the First World War. Showing the position of the Lance when firing the three fatal shots. Date: August 1914

Samuel F Cody at Lark Hill August 1912
Samuel F. Cody at Lark Hill. August 1912. Date: 1912

Red owl, warbling flycatcher, purple finch, brown lark
Page 82 from A. Wilsons American Ornithology, (1835). Annotated Red owl, Warbling flycatcher, Purple finch, Brown lark

Galerida cristata, crested lark
Plate 17 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Melanocorypha calandra, calandra lark
Plate 19 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Alauda arvensis, Eurasian skylark
Plate 15 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Melancorypha leucoptera, white-winged lark
Plate 20 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Calandrella brachydactyla, greater short-toed lark
Plate 21 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Calandrella raytal, indian short-toed lark
Indian short-toed lark egg specimens

Calamospiza melanocorys, Chondestes grammacus, Melospiza mel
Plate 390 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Courtesan and her attendant listening to a lark. Print shows a courtesan and her attendant or an apprentice listening to the song of a lark that is flying above them. Date between 1772 and 1774

Shop selling honey and Lark Pate - Pithiviers, France
G. Boulmier - Seller of honey and Lark Pate - Pithiviers (Loiret), France

Theatre, The Last Waltz Nerman
Jose Collins and Kingsley Lark, with Alfred Wellesley and Billy Leonard in The Last Waltz

Lark, Brood & Farmer
THE LARK, HER BROOD & THE FARMER: A lark & her young ones, nesting in a field, flee when the owner of the wheat comes to take the harvest in

Lark Deafened
The deafened lark : These German guns make such a din, I ve been driven ill with trying to compete!

Scylla into Lark
Scylla, daughter of Nisus but in love with his enemy Minos, betrays him, but Minos is appalled at her behaviour and rejects her, whereupon she is transformed into a lark

CALANDER SAYS NO
The CALANDER (a kind of lark) knows if sick people will recover; held over the sickbed, if it turns towards the patient s/he will recover, if not (as here) s/he won t

Crested Lark (Morris)
CRESTED LARK (Alauda crestata)

Desert Finch and Lark
(Erythrospiza githaginea) depicted with some DESERT LARKS (alaemon desertorum)

Wood Lark (Morris)
WOOD LARK (Alauda arborea)

Birds / Corn Bunting
CORN BUNTING (Emberiza miliaria) Also known as the Bunting Lark or, less kindly, as the Common Bunting, which it isn t

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