Bat Collection (page 9)

Plecotus auritus, brown long-eared bat
Plate 210 from the Collection of Watercolour Drawings of British Vertebrates, 1830-1841, by William MacGillivray (1796-1851)

Catching A Tartar
Plate 17 taken from The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, illustrated by designs by Joseph Wolf, London 1874

Palaeochiropteryx tupaiodon
Fossil skeleton from the Middle Eocene, Lutetian, Oil Shale from Messel near Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany. From the collection of the Natural History Museum, London. Fossil bat

Myotis daubentonii, Daubentons bat
A Daubentons bat roosting. Photograph published on page 17 of Bats by Phil Richardson, a Natural History Museum publication, 2002

Pteropus alecto gouldi, black flying fox
Photograph of a black flying fox specimen preserved in spirit, held at the Natural History Museum, London

Chalinolobus tuberculatus, long-tailed wattled bat
Ff.1. Vespertilio tuberculatus, New Zealand Bat. Painting by George Forster (1754-1794), made during Captain Cooks second voyage of discovery, 1772-1775

Nyctalus leisleri, lesser noctule
Plate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)

Piltdown cricket bat
Side view of sharpened piece of elephant thighbone, presented as a digging implement. Commonly referred to as the Piltdown cricket bat. Held at The Natural History Museum, London

Pteronotus parnellii mesoamericanus, common mustached bat
A common mustached bat (Pteronotus parnellii mesoamericanus) photographed in Belize by Frank Greenaway

Pteropus loochoensis, Okinawa flying fox
A rare specimen of an Okinawa flying fox skin from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London

Macheiramphus alcinus, bat hawk
A hand-coloured lithograph by Joseph Wolf, (c. 1860). This bird of prey hunts at dusk for bats. Native to Africa, South East Asia and New Guinea. Part of the Jardine Collection

The Dead Tree. Things you might find in and around a dead tree include a dove, an owl, a bat, a pigeon or even a field mouse

Cricket at Girls School
Cricket played at a girls school. Date: circa 1929

Baseball player at bat, in front of catcher and umpire. Date c1895

Federal Music Project presents the comic opera Die fledermaus - The bat by Johann Strauss. Poster for Federal Music Project presentation of Die Fledermaus at the San Bernardino High School

Humorous Cricket Postcard - Wicketkeeper struck
Humorous Cricket Postcard by Tom Browne. A batsman eyes up a slog to a short-pitched ball, but his backswing makes contact with the wicketkeepers head and the stumps and bails fly everywhere

Presentation of a champion bat to the Red Stocking base-ball club, Cincinnati, Ohio, on its return home. Illustration showing members of the Red Stocking baseball team

Vampire bats attack sleepers
Three sleeping men attacked by vampire bats. Date: C.1895

Boys playing cricket
The boys play cricket, ignoring Jack Sparrows request for help. Date: 1937

Don Bradman Gives Lesson
A boy receives a cricket lesson from his hero, the famous Australian cricketer Sir DON BRADMAN, ( The Don ) who lived to a ripe old age, a good innings, indeed! Date: 1908 - 2001

Girl and boy playing shuttlecock and battledore

The boys recover their cricket score sheet
Jack Sparrow opens his beak to speak, and the boys recover their cricket score sheet. Jack flies off. Date: 1937

With Bat & Ball. Artist: Millicent Sowerby. Happy children out in the country enjoying a game of cricket Date: 1915

Traveller attacked during the Thirty Years War
A German bandit attacks a traveller with a bat, while another gang member rushes across with extra supplies including an axe. 17th Century

Prince Philip playing cricket
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born 1921), striking the ball with some force during a charity cricket match at Arundel Castle between the Dukes XV

H Miller. Battledore & shuttlecock
Children playing battledore and shuttlecock in a field. 20th century

W G Grace at the wicket
W G Grace (1848-1915), English cricketer, seen here at the wicket. 1892

Family & Beach Cricket
A family pose for a photograph on the beach at Weston-super-Mare in front of the Grand Pier with all their beach toys: cricket bat and stumps, a racquet and ball

Victorian father and son in studio setting
A Victorian father and his son pose for their photograph in the studio. The man is wearing a three-piece suit and a bowler hat, while the boy wears a sailor suit and wide-brimmed straw hat

Origin Species, CH Bennett, Quiet man - lamb
As quiet as a lamb. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of a quiet young man, from a lamb. Dressed in a long tailed coat

Shortsighted young cricketer is bowled out
A shortsighted young cricketer is bowled out -- the bales are flying off the stumps

Victorian schoolboy ready for the holidays
A Victorian schoolboy, smoking a small cigar, sits on a pile of suitcases on the platform of a railway station, ready for the long school holidays

Double page spread in a diary for 5-10 September
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 5-10 September. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

Five people playing a ball game in a field

Cricketer - Sir Francis S. Jackson
Sir Francis Stanley Jackson (1870-1947). English cricketer. Date: 1899

Pelota played at Saint Jean de Luz
The Basque game of Pelota played in front of a large crowd at Saint Jean de Luz, France. Pelota in Spanish, pilota in Basque and Catalan

A batsman exhibitis four different shots
A combination action photograph of a batsman, in full cricket kit, plays four different shots, from the classic forward defensive shot (left) through to a cover drive (right)

They carried him off with three cheers and three times three
The star player of the cricket team is paraded past a crowd of admiring fans

What a jolly cricketer he would make
A school boy cricketer admires a suit of armour and imitates the poise and the position of the statues sword, with his cricket bat

Boys Club game of Cricket 1935
A small but very determined looking member of a Boys Club stands in bat for a game of Cricket. Behind him an old box of Typhoo tea make excellent make-do stumps

Children of Rama VI of Siam
Three children of King Rama VI of Siam (modern Thailand). On the right is Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poramintharamaha Prajadhipok Phra Pok Klao Chao Yu Hua (1893 - 1941), the future King Rama VII

Bat Girl by A. Penot
Illustration by A.Penot of a girl dressed in a transparent bat outfit

W. Edrich and N. W. D. Yardley going out to bat, Lahore, 1937
Photograph of W. Edrich and N.W.D. Yardley walking out to open the innings for the Lord Tennyson XI, in the match against an All-India XI, held at Lahore, 1937

The Hambledon Cricket Memorial, Hampshire, 1922
Photograph of the Memorial unveiled in 1908, by Hampshire County Cricket Captain E.M. Sprot, to mark the site of the Hambledon Cricket Club Ground (circa 1750-1787)

Fable / Cat and Bat
The cat, having made a vow never to eat another bird, decides that the bat, as a bird is unlawful prey, but as a mouse it is fair game

Vampire Bat - 2
(desmodus rotundus) The American Vampire Bat thrives on warm-blooded creatures, humans included, from which it will suck 25ml of blood in 30 minutes

Vampire Bat - 1
(desmodus rotundus) The American Vampire Bat thrives on warm-blooded creatures, humans included, from which it will suck 25ml of blood in 30 minutes

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