Beasts Collection

Wombwells Poster
A poster from Bostock and Wombwells circus, featuring Madame Jumbo, performing horses and various other beasts, birds and reptiles. Date: Late 19th century

Bear Feeds Fish to Cubs Date: 1948

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

Orpheus playing his lyre. Relief from Thessaloniki. Greece
Orpheus, wearing a Phrygian cap and surrounded by the beasts charmed by the music of his lyre. Relief from Thessaloniki. Greece

Once Upon A Time by Laura Wildig; music Lewis Anthony. First produced at St. Martins Theatre, 22nd December 1919. This image is for the tour to the Playhouse, Liverpool, 23rd December 1920. Date: 1920

Peacock Drawing Date: 1555

Sudanese Dinka Village
Sudanese Dinka tribesmen of the Upper Nile and their elaborate layered reed houses. A holy man stands to the right next to a dead tree adorned with the horns of hunted beasts. Date: 1930s

THREE PRINCES/BEASTS
The faithful beasts weep around the body of the dead prince (Lithuanian story)

FAITHFUL ANIMALS/PRINCE
Faithful beasts weeping around the dead body of a prince. (From the Lithuanian myth "Three Princes and Their Beasts")

The Custom House, the Press Gang and the Tower of London. The New Custom House opened in 1817 on Lower Thames Street 10, Press Gang men armed with swords

Richard Sawade with lions & tigers at the London Hippodrome
Richard Sawade aka " King of the Beasts" pictured with an assortment of his lions and tigers with which he was appearing at the London Hippodrome in 1901 1901

Heraldic statues outside Westminster Abbey, London
The Queens Beasts, heraldic statues which stood in front of the temporary western annexe to Westminster Abbey, London, for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. 1953

Advertisement for Cross - Wild Beast Merchant, Liverpool. " Anything from A Humming Bird to an Elephant " Date: 1907

The Sale of the Royal Windsor Castle Menagerie 1884

African Rollier Bird Date: 1808

Bear on a Moonlit Night Date: 1910

Giraffe Date: 1910

Cassowary (Casarius galeatus) Date: 1845

Ostrich (Struthio camelus) Date: 1845

Crouching LynX Date: 1880

Egg Eater Date: 1880

Grey Wild Cat Date: 1880

Dog in Collar Date: 1880

Red FoX Date: 1880

Wolf with Bone Date: 1880

Weasel in a Tree Date: 1880

Barnacle Geese Date: 1835

Bulldogs Eye Food Bowl Date: 1948

Common Housefly Date: 1948

Meadowlark in Valley Date: 1954

Hammock Dog Date: 1941

White-Tailed Deer Date: 1948

Rocky Mountain Goat Date: 1948

Spaniel Bath Date: 1948

Pup Upsets Table, Phone Date: 1948

Holstein and Jersey Cows Date: 1948

Two Breeds of Cattle Date: 1948

Two Hens Date: 1948

Two Sheep Date: 1948

Gila Monster and Gecko Date: 1950

Pumping Elephants Water Date: 1950

West Africa 1547 Date: 1547

Terra Java 1547 Date: 1547

Shelled Oyster Date: 1889

Playful Dalmatian Pups Date: 1950

Rhino Chasing Native Date: 1950

Maharaja Rides Elephant, India Date: 1950

Swan Lands Near Mate Date: 1947

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