Behaviour Collection (page 2)

Young lady giving one hand in a minuet, 18th century. Copperplate engraving from The Polite Academy, or Instructions for a Genteel Behaviour and Polite Address in Masters and Misses, R

Young lady dancing in a room, 18th century. Copperplate engraving from The Polite Academy, or Instructions for a Genteel Behaviour and Polite Address in Masters and Misses, R. Baldwin, London, 1759

Young man standing in a panelled room, 18th century
Young gentleman standing in a panelled room, 18th century. Copperplate engraving from The Polite Academy, or Instructions for a Genteel Behaviour and Polite Address in Masters and Misses, R

Tea for Two
Two children enjoy a very civilised afternoon tea together. Date: c. 1930

Victorian morals - punctuality is important because it subserves the peace and good temper of a family. 19th century

A disorderly man is always in a hurry - he has no time to speak to you, because he is going elsewhere. 19th century

Cartoon, Poaching on Forbidden Preserves. 19th century

Weaving at Spitalfields, England, Industry and Idleness
Industry and Idleness by William Hogarth, showing weaving at Spitalfields, England, contrasting the discipline of one apprentice with the slovenly behaviour of another. Date: First published 1747

NEBUCHADNEZZAR MAD
King of Babylon, late in life he suffers a mysterious illness which requires him to adopt a vegetarian diet, and his behaviour becomes animal like for a while Date: 604 - 562 BC

DRUNKEN BRITISH SAILORS
The populace of Barcelona are shocked by the behaviour of British sailors, who make too free with the local vino Date: 1873

Page from the Palace of Hope
An illustrated page from the Palace of Hope, from the Documenti dAmore (Teachings of Love) of the Tuscan poet, Francesco da Barberino

Ladies bathing at Margate, Kent, are reproved by the local constabulary for unseemly behaviour. Date: 1871

Many kittens and a Santa cat on a Christmas card by Louis Wain. Have they behaved well enough to receive their presents? Date: circa 1900s

Bottlenose Dolphin - recently born calf and mother - milking (Tursiops truncatus). Oltremare lagoon Riccione Italy. The pregnancy lasted 54 weeks

Tarantula spider in threatening pose (Trochosa singoriensis). South Tuva, Russia

Bottlenose dolphins - blowing air bubbles underwater (Tursiops truncatus). Distribution: Worldwide except polar regions. Complex play / creative behaviour

Bottlenose dolphin - blowing air bubble (Tursiops truncatus). Distribution: Worldwide except polar regions. Complex play / creative behaviour

Bottlenose dolphins - pair dancing underwater (Tursiops truncatus). Distribution: Worldwide except polar regions

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

Telegram excuse sent by husband to disguise affair
Telegram excuse sent by an older man to his wife to disguise the affair he is having with his young Secretary. Date: 1909

Cannibalism - Humorous postcard - Fiji - Doctor to be eaten
Cannibalism - Humorous postcard - Fiji - Western Doctor, investigating the Culinary Habits of the Cannibal Islands is himself about to become the entrea.. Date: circa 1910s

Tolypeutes tricinctus, Brazilian three-banded armadillo
Specimen from The Natural History Museum, London

PERI
A winged creature from Persian mythology, once considered malevolent but later perceived as good, beautiful creatures angelic in behaviour as well as in appearance Date: circa 1860

Lady in Chastity Belt
When a gentleman has to leave home, his wife hands him the key of her chastity belt as a guarantee of her good behaviour

Franciscan monks begging
Before the order was reformed in 1528, the Franciscans had fallen from the high standards set by Francesco d Assisi... begging, and chatting up the girls... Date: 15th century

Giant tortoise being fed at Tring Park
In 1897 Walter Rothschild despatched explorer Charles Harris to the Galapagos islands to collect a large number of giant tortoises

Pen & ink sketch, Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
Original artwork by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, donated by his granddaughter Mary Hawkins

Spiders, insects and hummingbird on guava tree
Hand-coloured engraving based on Maria Sibylla Merian watercolour. From Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, 1726 edition. Date: 1726

WW1 poster, Imperial Maritime League, Keep the Flag Flying, persuading British Women and British Girls not to condone the behaviour of men who do not enlist. Date: 1914-1918

Darkling Beetle - burrowing in the sand to escape heat of the day (Sympiezocnemis gigantea). sand dunes of Karakum desert - Turkmenistan - Spring - April

Peregrine Falcon - adult warms a chick after feeding him in the nest (a single chick because of the bad year due to the lack of lemmings as food, a natural fluctuation), (Falco peregrinus)

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)

Rhinoceros Beetle - on tree-bark - hornless female is on the left, male is on the right (Xylotrupes pubescens ). Bohol, Philippines. February

Bottlenose dolphin - jumping out of the water (Tursiops truncatus). Distribution: Worldwide except polar regions

Bottlenose dolphins - group playing underwater (Tursiops truncatus). Distribution: Worldwide except polar regions

Bottlenose dolphin - blowing air bubbles underwater (Tursiops truncatus). Distribution: Worldwide except polar regions. Complex play / creative behaviour

Secret Toad-Headed Agama - dispays its collar when being disturbed - sand dunes - desert (Phrynocephalus mystaceus Pallas). Caspian sea shore - Turkmenistan. April

Secret Toad-Headed Agama - dispays being disturbed - sand dunes - desert (Phrynocephalus mystaceus Pallas). Caspian sea shore - Turkmenistan. Spring - April

Giant Pill Millipede rolls into a ball in danger. lowland rainforest floor in Kinabatangan river floodplain; Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia; June. Class Diplopoda

Bottlenose Dolphin - Newborn Baby / Calf dolphin showing foetal marks just after birth. (Tursiops truncatus). Foetal marks will disappear after one or two days

Bottlenose Dolphin - Newborn Baby / Calf nursing / feeding from Mother immediately after birth (Tursiops truncatus). Part of a sequence of imagesDolphin gestation / pregnancy lasts approx

Homo neanderthalensis hunting in Swanscombe
A Homo neanderthalensis group hunting fallow deer on the banks of the river Thames at modern day Swanscombe, Kent 400, 000 years ago. Illustration by Angus McBride

Nycticebus coucang, slow loris
Plate from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China, 1774-1856. See also image reference 11520

Young boy punished - Russia - Elizabeth Bem
Punished for Lying A young Russian boy with a mischievous glint in his eye thinks up some more daring do whilst writing out some lines as punishment for crying wolf.... Date: 1915

Childrens party, 1953
Four children enjoy a charming (if a little sparse) looking Christmas tea party. The girls are wearing smocked party dresses by Lindsay Maid

Aepyornis maximus, elephant bird
Painting by Maurice Wilson from his drawings collection (1950)

The Bear-Leaders, by R C Carton. First produced at the Comedy Theatre, London, February 1912. The children in bear costume reflect the idea, central to the play

Stylish young lady practises her hurdling at the station. Other people standing nearby are wondering what she is doing. Date: 1923

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