19th Century Collection (#61)

Prunus avium, early cherry
Illustration from Pomona Franconica (1776-1801) by Johann Mayer of Wurzburg. Entitled Cerise hative

Prunus sp. yellowheart cherry
Illustration from Pomona Franconica (1776-1801) by Johann Mayer of Wurzburg. Entitled Guigne jaune

Prunus sp. large blackheart cherry
Illustration from Pomona Franconica (1776-1801) by Johann Mayer of Wurzburg. Entitled Grosse Guigne noire luisant

Prunus sp. small blackheart cherry
Illustration from Pomona Franconica (1776-1801) by Johann Mayer of Wurzburg. Entitled Petite Guigne noir

Prunus avium, flower of cherry tree
Illustration from Pomona Franconica (1776-1801) by Johann Mayer of Wurzburg. Entitled Double fleur de Cerisier

Prunus sp. round fruited cherry
Illustration from Pomona Franconica (1776-1801) by Johann Mayer of Wurzburg. Entitled Fleur de Cerisier a fruit rond

Camellia japonica woodsii, camellia
Illustration from Illustrations & descriptions..of Camelli (1831) by William Beattie Booth (1804-1874) with drawings by Alfred Chandler

Camellia japonica paeoniflora rosea, camellia
Illustration from Camellieae 1837, by William Beattie Booth (1804-1874) with drawings by Alfred Chandler

Camellia japonica fimbriata, camellia
Illustration from Camellieae 1837, by William Beattie Booth (1804-1874) with drawings by Alfred Chandler

Plate 22 from Libellulinae Europaeae by de Charpentier
Illustration of dragonflies. Plate 22 from Libellulinae Europaeae illustrated and described by Toussaint von Charpentier (1780-1847), 1840

Plate 15 from Libellulinae Europaeae by de Charpentier
Illustration of dragonflies. Plate 15 from Libellulinae Europaeae illustrated and described by Toussint de Charpentier, 1840

Dendroica petechia aureola, yellow warbler
Plate 28, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from Charles Robert Darwins Zoology of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle, Part 3 Birds, (1838-41). This is not one of Darwins finches

Gilia tenuiflora, slender-flowered gilia
Plate 28 from The Ladies Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals (1839) by Jane Wells Loudon

Scrophulariaceae
Plate 111 from The Chief Natural Orders of Plants (1849). Illustrated and described by Elizabeth Twining (1805-1889)

Falco tinnunculus, common kestrel
Plate 14 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Amaryllis hybrida miniata, amaryllis
Painting from Catalogus Horti Academici Vindobonensis (1842) by Stephan Endlicher. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Charles Konig (1774-1851)
From a drawing by E.U. Eddis, 1831. Taken from A History of The First Hundred Years of The Mineral Collection in the British Museum, Bulletin of the Natural History Museum 3, 8. (1969) by W

Corvus corax, common raven
Plate 28 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Prunus serotina, large black cherry
Plate 8 from Pomona Franconica (1776-1801) by Johann Mayer of Wurzburg. Entitled Grosse Guigne noire

Prunus sp. Portuguese cherry
Illustration from Pomona Franconica, Vol 2 (1779) by Johann Mayer of Wurzburg. Entitled Griotte de Portugal

Falco peregrinus, peregrine palcon
Plate 9 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Camellia japonica flore albo, camellia
Illustration from Illustrations & descriptions..of Camelli (1831) by William Beattie Booth (1804-1874) with drawings by Alfred Chandler

Iris xiphioides, English Iris
Drawing 173/10 by Arthur Harry Church (1865-1937), published in 1907. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

White-fronted Nunbird
Illustration of a White-fronted Nunbird by William Swainson (1789-1855)

Prunus sp. (22) teindou peach (23) belle de vitry peach
Illustration from Pomona Franconica (1776-1801) by Johann Mayer of Wurzburg. Entitled Teindou, Belle de Vitry

Aquila chrysaetos, golden eagle
Plate 37 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Sargocentron hastatum, red squirrelfish, Amphiprion percula
Plate 25 by Louis-Isidore Duperrey from his Voyage de la Coquille 1822-1825, Zoologie Atlas, 1826

Sus domesticus, pig
Plate 4 from The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands Vol. 2, 1842, by David Low (1786-1859). Entitled Berkshire Breed

Sea urchins
Plate 6 from Voyage sur la Venus (1840-1864) by A. A. Dupetit-Thouars

Pandion haliaetus, osprey
Plate 15 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Felis silvestris silvestris, European wildcat
Felis catus. Plate from A Monograph of the Felidae, or Family of the Cats, 1833, by Daniel Giraud Elliot. One of 43 hand-coloured lithographs by Joseph Wolf (1820-1899) and Joseph Smit (1836-1929)

Ceanothus sp. Californian lilac
Drawing 49/1 made in 1904 by Arthur Harry Church (1865-1937). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Cat design
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Palm Cockatoo

Thraupis bonariensis, blue and yellow tanager
Plate 34, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from Charles Robert Darwins Zoology of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle, Part 3 Birds, (1838-41). This is not one of Darwins finches

Tetrao tetrix, black grouse
Plate 16 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Prunus persica, elements of peach flower
Illustration from Pomona Franconica (1776-1801) by Johann Mayer of Wurzburg. Entitled Sommet, pistil, molecules et Insect

Prunus sp. small early red cherry
Illustration from Pomona Franconica (1776-1801) by Johann Mayer of Wurzburg. Entitled Petite cerise rouge precoce

Prunus persica, white clingstone peach
Illustration from Pomona Franconica (1776-1801) by Johann Mayer of Wurzburg. Entitled Pavie blanc

Prunus sp. large whiteheart cherry
Plate 14 from Pomona Franconica (1776-1801) by Johann Mayer of Wurzburg. Entitled Grosse Bigarreau blanc

Camarhynchus psittacula, large tree finch
Plate 40, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from Charles Robert Darwins Zoology of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle, Part 3 Birds, (1838-41). Finch from the Galapagos Islands

The Nandu: Rhea linnaei design

Prunus sp. heart cherry
Illustration from Pomona Franconica (1776-1801) by Johann Mayer of Wurzburg. Entitled Cerise Guigne

Trumpet Manucode
Illustration of a Trumpet Manucode by John Gould (1804-1881)

Convolvulaceae
Plate 116 from The Chief Natural Orders of Plants (1849). Illustrated and described by Elizabeth Twining (1805-1889)

Callionymus lyra, dragonet
Plate 78 by William MacGillivray from his Watercolour drawings of British Animals, 1831-1841

Prunus avium, whiteheart cherry flower
Illustration from Pomona Franconica (1776-1801) by Johann Mayer of Wurzburg. Entitled Du fleur du Bigarreautier

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