Beak Collection (page 2)

The early bird catches the worm. A cartoon-style duckling proudly holding a fat worm in its beak. Artist: Anon. Date: circa 1930

Map and European beak butterflies
Map butterflies, Araschnia levana and Araschnia levana prorsa, and European beak or nettle-tree butterfly, Libythea celtis

Southern brown kiwi or tokoeka, Apteryx australis. Beak and foot. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rene Primevere Lessons Complements de Buffon, Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1838

Beak of a toucan, Ramphastos species, and unknown bird (Cassowary species?). Bec d un toucan, bec d un certain oiseau a nez de rhiniceros

Bird anatomy, beak, wing, tail, feathers. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Menevilles Dictionnaire Pittoresque d Histoire Naturelle

Vessels and warships of the Chinese navy. Mail ship or news frigate 1, junk with defensive boards 2, covered waterwheel riverboat 3, junk 4, and hawks beak boat with two prows 5

Kaka beak, Clianthus puniceus
Kaka beak, crimson clianthus or glory pea, Clianthus puniceus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by Miss Jane Taylor from Benjamin Maund and the Rev

Artwork by Florence Auerbach, robin with note
Artwork by Florence Auerbach, robin in the snow with a note, Please come early. Date: late 19th century

Murrays Cabaret Club advertisement
Advertisement for Murrays Cabaret Club of Beak Street, London, renowned for its lavish floor shows with 45 of Englands loveliest showgirls in skimpy costumes. Date: 1940s

Puppy abducted by eagle in Valle Brembana, San Gallo, Italy
Puppy abducted by eagle in Valle Brembana, San Gallo, north-east of Milan, Italy. Fortunately the puppy struggled and the eagle had to drop it from a height of 30 metres - the dog had a soft landing

Centropus ateralbus, pied coucal
Plate 34 from Louis-Isidore Duperreys Voyage de la Coquille 1822-1825, Zoologie Atlas, (1826). From drawings made during his voyage to Chile, Peru, Polynesia, Indoneasia

Pigeons - Varieties of Ice Pigeons, Fancy Breed
An Ural, Silver, Siberian and Blue Ice Pigeons are seen here illustrated inside a pigeon coop, as known as a loft. The Ice Pigeon is a domesticated and fancy breed of pigeon

Pigeons - Black and Dun Barbs, English Fancy Breed
A portrait of a Black and Dun Barbs, and two White Barbs in the background. The Barb, also called the English Barb is a breed of fancy pigeon developed over many years of selective breeding

Bottlenose DOLPHIN - two, facing, one on top of the other (tursiops truncatus)

Bottlenose DOLPHIN - blows bubbles from blow hole, facing camera (Tursiops truncatus). air bubbles rising. Complex play / creative behaviour

Ptilinopus insolitus, knob-billed fruit dove
Plate 52, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China. The plant is Bombax ceiba

Ceratosaurus, Coelurosaur, Camptosaurus, Stegosaurus, Brachio
A Ceratosaurus feeds on a dead Apatosaurus as do two small Coelurosaurs (Coelurus). Behind L-R are 2 Camptosaurus, Stegosaurus, Brachiosaurus and another Apatosaurus

Greetings card in the shape of a handbag, with ducks
Greetings card in the shape of a handbag, with two ducks poking their heads out. Date: circa 1890s

Robin hatching from egg on a New Year card
Robin hatching from a egg with holly in its beak on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Robin and goose on a Christmas and New Year card
Robin riding a goose on the ice on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Robin with present on a Christmas and New Year card
Robin carrying a present in its beak on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Robin with egg on a Christmas and New Year card
Robin balancing an egg on its beak on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

The DOyly Carte, Opera Company
Front page of a four-page flyer touring to the Lyceum Theatre, Newport on 30th September 1907. The Gondoliers and The Mikado are both given twice during the week; The Yeomen of the Guard, H.M.S

Chimeras - Notre Dame, Paris, France. On the left is Black Peter the stone gargoyle - all Parisian children know he watches out for naughty children

Anything Left handed - 65 Beak Street - Soho, London. Date: 1973

Cartoon, Keep your mouth shut, WW1
Cartoon, Keep your mouth shut -- a new take on a fable of Aesop during the First World War, where the fox will never be able to get the crow to open his mouth and drop the nice piece of cheese

The interior of Murrays Nightclub, London (1920s)
The interior of Murrays Nightclub, Beak Street, London (1920s) Date: 1920s

Pigeons - A Portrait of a Silver and Blue Runt, Fancy Breed
A portrait of a Silver and Blue Runt, which are breeds of fancy pigeon. The Runt is one of the oldest known pigeon breeds and was widely bred in Italy, from which its French name, Roman pigeon

Pigeons - Varieties of Swallows, German Toy Breed
A portrait of four varieties of Swallows. The yellow, black, red and blue Swallows are a breed of German Toy pigeons. The Swallows in the outdoor scenery are also illustrated in such a way to present

Pigeons - Red, White and Yellow Dragoons, London Fancy Breed
A Red, White and Yellow Dragoon pictured together in their coop. The Dragoon belongs to the Fancy pigeon breed, these Dragoons are also in common with London

Beak, foot, feather and claw of the brown kiwi, Apteryx australis. Vulnerable.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany 1812

Cartoon, The Glorious Twelfth -- the Bird to be brought down this August being not a Grouse but a Mad Eagle. A comment on the warmongering Kaiser Wilhelm II

Terra Nova birds report
Plate XIV from the Birds report by Low and Kinnear, taken from Volume IV of the British Anarctic (Terra Nova) Natural History Reports

Turdus merula, common blackbird
Photograph of a female common blackbird, taken in the museum wildlife garden

Ara ararauna, blue-and-yellow macaw
Large Series plate 27, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Lorius garrulus, chattering lory
Plate 44, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Pelargopsis capensis, stork-billed kingfisher
Plate 31, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Gracula religiosa indica, Acridotheres cristellus, Paroaria
Large Series plate 12, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Strix aluco, tawny owl
Plate 68 from Archibald Thorburns second edtition of British Birds, Vol. 2 (1925)

Platycercus exmius, eastern rosella
Plate 18 from Ferdinand Lucas Bauers zoological watercolours and drawings observed during Captain Matthew Flinders circumnavigational survey of Australia (Investigator 1801-1803)

CHUBBIES SANDWICH BAR
Chubbies Sandwich Bar, on the corner of Beak Street, London W1, perfect for a lunchtime snack to quell that peckish feeling. Date: 1980s

Two pelicans in a park
Unusual Friends - two pelicans in a park. 1950s

Soho, London - 79 Beak Street W1 - John Wilkes riflemakers (1925 to July 2003, now the Riflemaker Art Gallery). 1973

Soho, London - 63-73 Beak Street W1. 1973

Flying sparrow on a bird-shaped greetings card (back). (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Robin with present on a Christmas card
Robin carrying a present in its beak on a white and gold Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Stork on a cutout Christmas card, with verse (back). (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Red pillar box with robins on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

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