Basking Collection

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

Cat and horse enjoying the sunshine
A cat and a horse appear as if they are having a conversation as they enjoy the sunshine. Date: 20th century

A most stupendous basking shark caught within one league of
Advertising flyer for the public exhibition in London of a basking shark caught in Brighton

Cast of a basking shark(Selache Maxima)
Described in The Illustrated London News as a cast of the skeleton of a basking shark(Selache Maxima) caught off Bergen in 1901

Society basking on the Lido sands
Well-known personalities of Venetian society sunbathing at the Venice Lido. The Hon. Mrs Evelyn Fitzgerald, Prince Jean de Faucigny-Lucigne, Count Giovanni Sangro de Buccino

Boutons skink Snake-eyed skink adult sunbathes on a black basalt rock which holes he uses for hiding and safe moving around East shore of Ilot Gabriel island endemic for Mascarenes

Basking shark
Hand-drawn graphite and watercolour wash depicting side view of head of Basking shark transported from Brighton to London. 10th Dec 1812. Date: 1812

Cetorhinus maximus, or Basking Shark. Date: 1862

A young Common Monitor Lizard rests (sunbathing in order to raise the body-temperature) on a tree-trunk, fallen in a small stream in rainforest (Varanus salvator)

Society sun-basking at Juan-Les-Pins
Sunbathing on a Provencal beach from left to right is Mrs H. M. Martineau, Baron Pflugal, Major Mason, Baroness Pflugal and Mr H. M. Martineau at Juan-Les-Pins on the French Riviera. Date: 1934

Mauritius ornate day gecko adult watches for prey from a tree trunk endemic to Mauritius Bras d Eau National Park subject to a Mauritian Wildlife Foundation regeneration programme June North of

Nile crocodile, Crocodylus niloticus.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelms Encyclopedia of Natural History: Amphibia, Augsburg, 1794

Rough-scaled Brown Skink basking on planks of a wooden platform at Sukau Rainforest Lodge (Mabuya rudis). in lowland rainforest of Kinabatangan river floodplain; Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia; June

Horses being used to transport a Basking shark from Brighton
Hand-drawn graphite and watercolour wash depicting the horses used to transport a Basking shark from North Audley Street, Brighton to London on a carriage pulled by 12 horses. 10th Dec 1812

Front cover from The Sketch
Front cover photograph showing a lady basking in the sunlight

Innocence in Blue 1950S
Pretty, innocent young woman virginally resplendent in a shaded blue gown with pleated skirt & finely ruched corsage, narrow diamante bracelet & white strappy shoes

Marine Life / Fishing
The manner of taking the Basking Shark in Loch-Ranza Bay in Scotland

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