Tail Collection (#11)

The first de Havilland DH91 Albatross E-2 / G-AEVV
The first de Havilland DH91 Albatross, E-2/G-AEVV, with the original inset tail-fins and rudders

Sketch of the 1849 boy-carrying machine showing the triplane wing structure, tail-unit, and wheeled car with pilot-operated elevator-cum-rudder, and propulsive flappers. 1853

Model glider; a kite mounted on a pole (with a weight beneath), and a cruciform tail unit attached by a universal joint. 1804. From Cayleys original notebook

First prototype de Havilland Venom VV612 after the fitting
First prototype de Havilland Venom, VV612, after the fitting of a two-position reheat and tail bumpers

The first prototype Avro Tudor 2 G-ASSU
The first prototype Avro Tudor 2, G-ASSU, with the final tail configuration

Photographic, 10840405
10840405

The tail gunner of a Vickers Virginia V J7434
The tail gunner of a Vickers Virginia V, J7434

Sopwith 7F1 Snipe B9966
Sopwith 7F1 Snipe, B9966, with a redesigned experimental tail unit which incorporated a two-part tailplane

The Gloster Meteor F8 prototype VT150
The Gloster Meteor F8 prototype, VT150, was a modified F4 airframe with a new tail and cockpit canopy

Hawker P1081 VX279
Hawker P1081, VX279, was the P1052 modified to include a straight-through jet pipe and an all-swept tail

Hawker P1072 VP401
Hawker P1072, VP401, was the extensively modified P1040 fitted with an Armstrong Siddeley Snarler rocket motor in the tail under the rudder

Design for ephemera with mermaid
Design for ephemera, Rottmans Silver Stencil Series, with a mermaid. Silver Studio. 1895

Whales and their relatives
Poster advertising Whales and their relatives exhibition which opened in 1984

Alaruasa violacea, tailed wax bug
The tailed wax bug does not actually have a tail at all, because the exraordinary growth behind it is pure wax, secreted from the abdomen in tiny amounts throughout its life

Lutreolina crassicaudata, thick-tailed opossum
Illustration of Lutreolina crassicaudata, thick-tailed opossum

Spermophila supercilaris
Plate 7 from Gyula Madaraszs Zeitschrift Fur Die Gesammte Ornithologie, Vol. 2, (1885) Annotated Spermophila superciliaris. This science name is no longer valid

Colourful illustration of a mermaid and a lobster
Plate 57 from Louis Renards Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, Vol 2, 1754. This was the earliest known work on fish to be produced in colour

Phaethon rubricauda, red-tailed tropicbird
Watercolour 360 by the Port Jackson Painter from the Watling Collection titled Red-tailed Tropic-bird

Colourful illustration of of two fish and a crustacean
Folio 42 from Louis Renards Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, Vol 1, 1754. This was the earliest known work on fish to be produced in colour

Trichoglossus haematodus moluccanus, rainbow lorikeet
Watercolour 125 by Thomas Watling from the Watling Collection titled Red-breasted or Blue-bellied Parrot, Goeril

Plate 24 by Louis-Isidore Duperrey from his Voyage de la Coquille 1822-1825, Zoologie Atlas, 1826

Clupea finta, twaite shad
Page 68 by W Houghton from his British Freshwater Fishes, 1879

Plate 137 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

Chaetodon sp. butterflyfish

LS Plate 173 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 167 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

Thunnus albercares, yellowfin tuna
Ff. 100 Vol 2. Watercolour painting by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage to explore the southern continent 1768-1771

LS Plate 177 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

Manidae manis, pangolin
LS Plate 82 of the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China, 1774-1856

Plate 114 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 79 of the Reeves Collection (Zoology)
LS Plate 79 of the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China, 1774-1856

LS Plate 174 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 115 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 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

Plate 139 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 121 from the John Reeves Collection

LS Plate 168 from the John Reeves Collection

LS Plate 181 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

Polytelis anthopeplus, Regent parrot
Plate 28 from Edward Lears Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae or Parrots (1832). Hand coloured lithograph

Melichthys vidua, pinktail triggerfish

LS Plate 171 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 138 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 182 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 8 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

Aratinga solistaris, sun parakeet
Plate 20 painting by Louis Bourquet from Francois Le Vaillants Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets, Vol. 1, (1801). Annotated La Perruche Ara Guarouba, jeune age

LS Plate 157 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 7 from the John Reeves Collection
Large Series plate 7, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

LS Plate 156 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

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