Animal Collection (page 9)

Mosaic of Orpheus. Miletus. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany
Mosaic of Orpheus. 200 AD. Of a private room, dining room or triclinium of a roman domus. From Miletus. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany

John, Duke of Berrys household exchanging New Year gifts. The Duke is seated at the right, in blue. Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry. 15th century. Miniature. Chateau de Chantilly. France

Two cats playing billiards on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Cat playing the piano on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Pen and ink sketch by B. Waterhouse Hawkins
Sketch on the reverse of a letter dated 24 October 1855, written to Professor Richard Owen from Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins Date: 1855

Great Irish Elk, Megatherium
Original artwork by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, donated by his granddaughter Mary Hawkins

Zoological gardens by B. Waterhouse Hawkins
Original artwork by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, donated by his granddaughter Mary Hawkins

Restorations of animals from Tertiary period
Original artwork by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, donated by his granddaughter Mary Hawkins

Restorations of secondary period animals
Original artwork by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, donated by his granddaughter Mary Hawkins

The Wolf by Edward Donovan
The Wolf, in Edward Donovans The Natural History of British Quadrupeds Volume 1. Held in the Library and Archives

Guy (1946-1978), a western lowland gorilla
Guy the gorilla was one of London Zoos best-loved residents. After his death, he lived on as a display and research specimen at the Natural History Museum

Connochaetes taurinus, Blue wildebeest
watercolour by William Cornwallis Harris. Entitled Catoblepas gorgon, Brindled Gnoo

Tragelaphus strepsiceros, Greater kudu
Watercolour by William Cornwallis Harris. Entitled Strepsiceros capensis, Koodoo

Paradise Shelduck Putangitangi, Tadorna variegata (female and male). Artwork by JG Keulemans from Sir Walter Lawry Bullers A History of the Birds of New Zealand, Vol.3 Plate 44 Date: 1888

Squalus maximus, Basking shark taken at Brighton 5 Dec 1812
Watercolour and ink

Hunting the Giraffe by William C Harris
Colour lithograph c. 1836 Date: circa 1836

Giant Ground Sloth, Natural History Museum
Photograph of a Skeleton of the Giant Ground Sloth (Megatherium Americanum). July 1902. Archive ref: PH/173/244 Date: 1902

Coral Gallery c. 1895
Photograph of coral display cases by Anthony Gepp. The Coral Gallery opened in 1881 in the West Wing of the Waterhouse Building. Date: 1881

Megatherium and Glyptodon
Sheet 5 of a series of posters by Waterhouse Hawkins c. 1862 showing Megatherium and Glyptodon. Date: circa 1862

Anoplotherium commune & gracile, Palaeotherium
Sheet 4 of a series of posters called Extinct Animals by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins c. 1862. This collection of mammals could be found during the Eocene epoch some 50 million years ago

Victorian Scrap, Pears Soap -- a mother monkey washes her dirty son. circa 1880s

Illustration, The Cat and Mouse in Partnership -- The Cat stole away behind the city walls to the church. Date: 1909

Foxhunting scene in silhouette, with three riders and their horses and hounds chasing the scent. Date: 20th century

Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton
A skeleton of the carnivorous dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus rex at the Natural History Museum. The Tyrannosaurus rex, which grew up to around 12 metres long lived 67 to 65 million years ago during

Stuart Stammwitz working on blue whale model, 1938, The Natu
Stuart Stammwitz is shown here working on the whales eye, before the model was painted

Aquila chrysaetus, golden eagle
Plate 78 from Archibald Thorburns second edtition of British Birds, Vol. 2 (1925)

Jynx torquilla, wryneck, Dendrocopos major, great spotted wo
Plate 60 from Archibald Thorburns second edtition of British Birds, Vol. 2 (1925)

Iguanodon & Megalosaurus
Iguanodon was a bipedal herbivorous dinosaur that lived 140-110 million years ago. Less is known about the Megalosaurus, but it lived a little earlier than Iguanodon as a large carnivorous dinosaur

Prionailurus planiceps, flat-headed cat
Felis planiceps. 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)

Gracula religiosa indica, lesser hill myna
Plate 73, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Naso lituratus, orangespine unicornfish
Ff. 194. Watercolour painting by George Forster made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Upupa epops, common hoopoe
Plate 55, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Megalosaurus and Pterodactyle
Sheet 2 of a series of posters by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins c. 1862, showing Megalosaurus and Pterodactyle

Thespesia populnea, portia tree
Finished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

Centropus sinensis, greater coucal
Plate 27, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

An Asian parrot illustration
From a collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, painted from life for J. G. Loten, Dutch Governor of Ceylon (1752-1757) by P

Mergellus albellus, smew
Plate 37 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Geochelone radiata, radiated tortoise
Lithograph by Edward Lear of drawing by James de Carle Sowerby. Plate from Tortoises, Terrapins and Turtles, drawn from life (1872), introduction by Dr. John Edward Gray

Gavia stellata, red-throated diver
Plate 45 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Motacilla alba, white wagtail
Plate 2 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Pterois volitans, red lionfish
Plate 112 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

Uintatherium skull
Skull measures 740 mm left to right. Uintatherium, a horned ungulate from the mid Eocene of western U.S.A, stood about 1.6m at the shoulder

Crex crex, corncrake
Plate 87 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Carduelis flammea cabaret, lesser redpoll
Plate 52 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Lanius collurio, red-backed shrike
Plate 15 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 2 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Smokejacks Brickworks, Surrey
Smokejacks Brickworks in Ockley, Surrey shows part of the Upper Weald Clay Formation of Lower Cretaceous (Barremian) age

Acanthostega
Model of one of the earliest tetrapods, animals with back-bones capable of living on land. This Acanthostega lived during the late Devonian of East Greenland

Calymene blumenbachii brongniart, trilobite
This trilobite originates from the 425 million year old Devonian Wenlock Limestone, Dudley, Worcestershire

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