18th Century Collection (#24)

Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)
Painting of Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist, by Magnus Hallman, c. 1780. Original held at the Natural History Museum, London. Linnaeus is known as the Father of Taxonomy

Halobaena caerulea, blue petrel
Ff. 86. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Procellaria fimilis and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Odax acroptilus, rainbow cale
Plate 35 from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand Bauer. This medium-sized, weed-dwelling marine fish can be found along the coastline of the south-west Pacific

Taurotragus oryx, eland

Lophonetta specularoides, crested duck
Ff. 78. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Anas lophyra cristata and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Antelope head
Drawing by George Forster (1754-1794), made during Captain James Cooks second voyage of discovery, 1772-1775

Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae, red-fronted parakeet
Ff. 46. Watercolour painting by George Forster (1773) annotated Psittacus pacificus and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Urodynamis taitensis, long-tailed koel
Ff. 56. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Cuculus fasciatus and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Callaeas cinereus, kokako
Ff. 52. Wtarecolour painting by George Forster (17774) annotated Callaeas cinerea and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Halcyon leucocephala, grey-headed kingfisher
Ff. 60. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Alcedo cancrophaga made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Periophthalmus sp. mudskipper
Plate 32 from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand Bauer. Gobies are common in shallow marine, brackish and estuarine waters, they have a distinct pelvic sucker used to cling to rocks and corals

Laniarius ferrugineus, southern boubou
Ff. 41. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Lanius cafer and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

James Hutton (1726-1797)
Portrait of James Hutton, by Henry Raeburn. Hutton was a Scottish scientist and geologist. He published his Theory of the Earth with Proofs and Illustrations in 1795

Anas georgica, yellow-billed pintail
Ff. 71. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Anas xanthorynchus and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Charmosyna palmarum, palm lorikeet
Ff. 48. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Psittacus palamarum and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Oreotragus oreotragus, klipspringer
Ff. 29. Painting by George Forster (1754-1794), made during Captain James Cooks second voyage of discovery, 1772-1775

Aplonis striata, striated starling
Ff. 54. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Coracias pacifica striata and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Trichoglossus haematodus, rainbow lorikeet
Plate 24 from Ferdinand Lucas Bauers zoological watercolours and drawings observed during Captain Matthew Flinders circumnavigational survey of Australia (Investigator 1801-1803)

Tadorna variegata, Paradise shelduck
Ff. 67. Watercolour painting by George Forster (1773) annotated Anas Cheneros and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Rhinoceros sp. rhinoceros
Painting, oil on canvas, by James Parsons (1705-1770), 1739. Original held at the Natural History Museum, London

Plate 30 from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand Bauer. Lateral and head-on studies of fish annotate: Bigeuer brownii

Pachyptila vittata, broad-billed prion
Ff. 87. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Procellaria vittata and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Raphus cucullatus, dodo, Ara macao, scarlet macaw
Oil painting attributed to Roelandt Savery (c. 1625). Given to The Natural History Museum, London, in 1759 by G. Edwards. See N04297 for black and white image

Prosopeia tabuensis, red shining parrot
Ff. 42. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Tonga Taboo and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Calochilus paludosus, R. Br
Annotated drawing by Ferdinand Bauer, Calochilus paludosus R. Br. Prodr.: 320 (1810) Irchidaceae. Br. 204. From a specimen from New South Wales, Australia

Sydney Parkinson (1745-1771)
Portrait of Sydney Parkinson, an artist on the first of Captain Cooks voyages on the Endeavour, 1768-1771. Oil on board, probably a self-portrait, c. 1770

Plate 29a from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand Bauer
Plate 29A from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand Bauer. Mouth and teeth of fish annotated: Amoplocarpos inermis

Plate 77 from British Orchids

Axis porcinus, hog deer
Ff. 14. Annotated Cervus porcinus. Drawing by George Forster (1754-1794), made during Captain Cooks second voyage of discovery, 1772-1775

Anthornis melanura, New Zealand bellbird
Ff. 62. Watercolour painting by George Forster (1773) annotated Certhia olivacea and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Pterostylis nutans R. Br
Annotated drawing by Ferdinand Bauer of Pterostylis nutans, 1810, Orchidaceae

Plate 36 from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand Bauer
A folio of 24 hand-coloured i. And one original watercolour of the artists friend, Claire de Pratz (author and friend of the artist) reading soldiers letters

Major General Thomas Hardwicke (1807-1874)
Portrait of General Thomas Hardwicke. Painting, oil on canvas, by John Lucas (1807-1874), c. 1830. Original held at the Natural History Museum, London

Contarenia, Limia, Mendocia, Mella, Vismia
Autograph letter to Sir J. Banks, consisting of descriptions, with water colour drawings of genera of Plants collected in Minas Geraes, Brazil Vandelli, Domenico, 1732-1816

Paliauana, Orobanchia, Urcheola
Autograph letter to Sir J. Banks, consisting of descriptions, with water colour drawings of genera of Plants collected in Minas Geraes, Brazil Vandelli, Domenico, 1732-1816

Vellosia, Dauilla, Lemia, Marialua
Autograph letter to Sir J. Banks, consisting of descriptions, with water colour drawings of genera of Plants collected in Minas Geraes, Brazil Vandelli, Domenico, 1732-1816. Page one of sixteen pages

Hydrophyllum, Galuania, Fereiria, Cardiospermum, Correia
Autograph letter to Sir J. Banks, consisting of descriptions, with water colour drawings of genera of Plants collected in Minas Geraes, Brazil Vandelli, Domenico, 1732-1816. Page one of sixteen pages

Verbascam ferrugineum & Tropidacris collaris
Rusty mullein, with South American grasshopper. Drawing by Georg Dionysius Ehret, 1747. Image used in The Chelsea Gardener Philip Miller (1990) by Hazel Le Rougetel, page 187

Narcissus tazetta, daffodil
Drawing by Georg Dionysius Ehret. Image used in The Chelsea Gardener Philip Miller (1990) by Hazel Le Rougetel, page 199

Nerine sarniensis, Guernsey lily
Drawing by Georg Dionysius Ehert. Image from The Chelsea Gardener Philip Miller (1990) by Hazel Le Rougetel, plate 1

Papilio, butterflies
Illustration and text by John Abbot: No 38, 39 & 40 Papilio taken 5th March. Common it may be met with most parts of the summer and autumn, the caterpillar is rarely met with

Arripis trutta, eastern Australian salmon
Ff. 63. Watercolour painting by George Forster (1774) annotated Certhia crdinalis and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Rupicola rupicola, Guianan cock-of-the-rock
Plate 51 from Francois Le Vaillants Historie naturelle des oiseaux de Paradis et des rolliers, Vol.1, (1806)

Conifer watercolour by Franz Bauer
Watercolour by Franz Andreas Bauer. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Asphalatus Acacia altera Mauk
Copy of De Materia Medica made by the Greek physician Dioscorides. Used as standard medical work up to Middle Ages. Copy made in 1460 and owned by Sir Joseph Banks

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