Blunt Collection

A Selection of Fish
An assortment of fish: 1. sharp-nosed eel, 2. blunt-nosed eel, 3. burbot, 4. lamprey, 5. lampern, 6. chub, 7. perch, 8. roach, 9. bream, 10. rudd, 11. Prussian carp, 12. Crucian carp, 13. tench, 14

Blunt / Cygnus & Lyra / Pl32
The constellation of Cygnus - a flying swan - and Lyra - that of an ancient Greek lyre

Blunt / Full Moon / Plate 13
The Moon at the full

Lady Anne Blunt, traveller in Arabia and the Middle East
Lady Anne Blunt, 15th Baroness Wentworth (1837-1917), English traveller in Arabia and the Middle East, buyer and breeder of Arab horses. circa 1860s

Blunt / Ophiucus / Plate 36
The constellation of Ophiucus - the figure is that of a man wrestling with a serpent

Blunt / Planet / Parallax
A diagram showing the parallax of the planets

Monoceros Etc Constell
The constellation of Monoceros - a unicorn - and Canis Minor - a small dog

BLUNT / CAPRICORN / 47 / 1849
The constellation of Capricorn, this version has the head, shoulders and fore- legs of a goat and the hind body and tail of a fish

Blunt / Scorpio / Plate 45
The constellation of Scorpio, the scorpion

Blunt / Virgo / Plate 43
The constellation of Virgo

BLUNT / ORION / 52 / 1849
The constellation of Orion, one of the most brilliant in the heavens

Blunt / Moons Phases / Pl15
The moons phases

Blunt / Jupiter & Moons / 10
A view of Jupiter showing its moons and satellites

Title page of First Folio of Shakespeares Plays
The Title page of First Folio of William Shakespeares Plays, published in London by Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount (Blunt) in 1623

The conqueror of Palestine at Beyrout(Beirut), 1919
British army officers in front of the tablet that was erected to commemorate the occupation of Beyrout(Beirut) and Tripoli by the 21st Army Corps

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Cruiser Hawke
The ship, Hawke, after she had collided because of sea change. HMS Hawke, launched in 1891, was the seventh British warship to be named Hawke. She was an Edgar-class protected cruiser

BLUNT / CLOUDS / CIRRUS / PL98
Cirrus clouds and sailing boats out at sea. Date: 1849

ZODIACAL LIGHT (BLUNT)
Zodiacal light beyond Roman ruins. It was believed that this type of light is really a luminous atmosphere of the sun. Date: 1849

BLUNT / ATMOSPHERIC REF
A diagram explaining atmospheric refraction using pictures of ships at sea to illustrate the concept Date: 1849

BLUNT / VENUS CROSSES SUN
The transit of Venus over the Suns disc. Date: 1849

BLUNT / PISCES / PLATE 49
The constellation of Pisces, the fish. Date: 1849

BLUNT / AQUARIUS / PLATE 48
The constellation of Aquarius, a figure of a man carrying a jar of water. Date: 1849

BLUNT / CAPRICORN / 47 / 1849
The constellation of Capricorn, this version has the head, shoulders and fore- legs of a goat and the hind body and tail of a fish. Date: 1849

BLUNT / SAGITTARIUS / PL 46
The constellation of Sagittarius, half man and half horse with a bow and arrow. Date: 1849

BLUNT / SCORPIO / 45 / 1849
The constellation of Scorpio, the scorpion. Date: 1849

BLUNT / LIBRA / 44 / 1849
The constellation of Libra, the scales. Date: 1849

BLUNT / VIRGO / 43 / 1849
The constellation of Virgo. Date: 1849

BLUNT / LEO / PLATE 42
The constellation of Leo, the lion. Date: 1849

BLUNT / URSA MAJOR / PL 24
Ursa Major : the constellation is composed, at first sight, of seven conspicuous stars, four of which are in a rectangular figure and form Date: 1849

BLUNT / SUNS DISC / PLATE 7
The Suns disc. Date: 1849

BLUNT / N. EUROPE AURORA
The aurora seen in Northern Europe Date: 1849

15th century Costume
1. Jean de Linden (1394) 2. Duc de Baviere (1430-1470) (whose name is unknown) 3. Albert III, Achilles de Brandebourg (1475) wearing an Electors cap 4. Ludwig von Hutten (1414) 5

Blunt / Clouds / Cirrus / Pl98
Cirrus clouds and sailing boats out at sea. Date: 1849

Blunt / Moon Gibbous 1849
The moon gibbous - in a decreasing state

Wilfred Scawen Blunt(1840-1922), English poet and traveller. Married Lady Anne in 1858 who travelled with him on many expeditions. Date: 1885

European Halfbeak, Blunt-Headed Halfbeak, and Skipper
European Halfbeak (Hemiramphus europaeus), Blunt-Headed Halfbeak (Hemiramphus obtusus), and Skipper (Scomberesox saurus, also known as Atlantic Saury, Skopster, Mackarel Garrick and Haliou)

Hexanchus griseus, a species of shark
Hexanchus griseus, also known as the bluntnose sixgilled shark or cow shark. Date: 1862

Couple with grandson and dog
A middle-aged couple with their grandson and a dog. Date: circa 1910s

Priest directed to find a Scotsmans late business partner. Parson (to Mr MacDougal) - " ! want to see Mr Thompson, please." Macdougal

Plate 137 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

LS Plate 156 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

LS Plate 161 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Anthias anthias, blunt headed holy fish
Specimen collected on Captain James Cooks first voyage, 1768-1771 and labelled Perca imperator

Plate 98 from Illustrations of Indian Zoology by John Edward
Plate 98 from Illustrations of Indian Zoology, Vol. 2 by John Edward Gray, (1833)

Mr Blunt, Eccentric
MR BLUNT I d like to be able to tell you about this gent, but all the British Museum has to say is that he is an eccentric. Possibly musical. Date: 18th century

James G Blunt
JAMES G BLUNT - Websters biographical dictionary doesn t mention this American Major-General, doubtless a participant in the Civil War. But heres his autograph, too. Date: 1826 - 1881

The Blunts Attacked
WILFRED SCAWEN BLUNT and his wife, LADY ANNE, are attacked - in error - by Arabs in the desert. Its scary for a while, but they survive to tell the tale. Date: 1840 - 1922

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