Branch Collection

Farmer and team of working horses plough a field
A team of two heavy horses plough a field, watched by a large crow and a pet springer spaniel. Watercolour painting by Malcom Greensmith Date: circa 1980

Bolsover Miners
Miners from the Bolsover branch of the National Union of Mineworkers, Derbyshire, collect money for the strike fund Date: May 1984

Ara ararauna, blue-and-yellow macaw
Plate 41, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Busy street scene at Spitalfields, East End of London
A busy street scene at Spitalfields in the East End of London. The location is the junction of Commercial Street and Brushfield Street. The building at the right is Spitalfields Market

Tawny Owl
A Tawny Owl (Strix aluco) perched on a branch. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Calyptorhynchus funereus, yellow-tailed black cockatoo
Watercolour 137 by Thomas Watling from the Watling Collection titled Banksian Cockatoo, native name Kar ratt

Oriolus oriolus, Eurasian golden oriole
Plate 31 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 2 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Blue Bird (Bird Sirin) - Sergey Solomko. Date: circa 1903

Ara macao, scarlet macaw
Plate 25, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Pharomachrus moccino, resplendent quetzal
Plate from John Goulds The Birds of New Guinea, (1875-1888). Hand coloured lithograph

Plumstead Common Road, showing (on the right, with the clock tower), the newly opened " Links" (1904) branch of the Royal Arsenal Co-Operative Society, still a " Co-Op" today

Camellia Sinensis (Tea)
or THEA SINENSIS branch of a TEA PLANT

Invergarry Castle in the Scottish Highlands - the seat of the Chiefs of the Clan MacDonnell of Glengarry, a powerful branch of the Clan Donald

Snowy Owl, by John James Audubon
Snowy Owl, Strix Nyctea, by John James Audubon (1785-1851). A colour plate in The Birds of America: From Original Drawings. Date: 1827-1838

Nymphicus hollandicus, cockatiel
Plate 27 from Edward Lears Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae or Parrots (1832). Hand coloured lithograph

Neophema pulchella, turquoise parrot
Watercolour 132 by Thomas Watling from the Watling Collection titled Turcosine Parrot

Gardens at Gravetye Manor, near East Grinstead, Sussex
View of the gardens at Gravetye Manor, near East Grinstead, West Sussex, showing daffodils growing in the foreground, and the Elizabethan manor house in the background

Suffragette, The House That Man Built Banner. Pro-Suffrage Viewpoint, showing suffragettes carrying a banner. Based on an actual banner

Picoides pubescens, downy woodpecker
Plate 112 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1831-34), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Accipiter gentilis, northern goshawk, Accipiter cooperii, Co
Plate 141 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1831-34), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

A blackbird sings whilst perched on a branch 2011

A Barn Owl (Tyto alba), perched on a gnarled old branch. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Circular countryside scene
A watercolour painting by Malcolm Greensmith showing a typical English rural countryside setting of a half-timbered cottage set amid fields, surrounded by fauna in the shape of a passing Cuckoo

7-Branch Candlestick
Ceremonial objects : The GOLDEN CANDLESTICK (Menorah) with seven branches, used in the Temple at Jerusalem, is shown to the prophet Zechariah by an angel

Alice and the Cheshire Cat -- We re all mad here, said the Cat. I m mad. You re mad

Four hummingbirds with chicks in a nest
Four adult hummingbirds with chicks in a nest -- ornysmia trochilus moschita, ornysmia Vieilloti, ornysmia Sasin trochili cristati (in nest) ornysmia mellivorus

Card Game - The Game of Suffragette
The Game of Suffragette was devised and produced by the Kensington branch of the Womens Social & Political Union. It was announced in the November 1907 issue of the Unions publication

Brochure illustration, W Barratt & Co Ltd, Northampton, showing the Footshape Works where the boots and shoes are made, with addresses of branches below, in London, Bradford, Brighton and Leicester

Archaeopteryx had the same number and arrangement of primary and secondary flight feathers as modern birds. Watercolour on paper by John Doncaster

Selasphorus rufus, rufous hummingbird
Plate 379 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Accipiter striatus, sharp-shinned hawk
Plate 374 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Britannia (Dugdale s)
An imperious Britannia with her foot on the shield of Europe

Four members of the Corvidae family -- a raven (corvus corax) and three crows (corvus corone, corvus cornix and corvus frugilegus)

Suffragettes WSPU Wimbledon Banner
Members of the Wimbledon branch of the Womens Social and Political Union, with their banner displayed. Probably taken at an at home meeting in the garden of Rose Lamartine-Yates house - Dorset Hall

Troglodytes troglodytes, winter wren
Plate 118 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Psittacula eupatria, Alexandrine parakeet
Plate 8, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Royal Flying Corps Made
The Royal Flying Corps is created as a new branch of the British Armed Forces Date: 1914

The Choristers by Muriel Dawson
Two sweet little girls stand together and sing from song books, accompanied by chirping birds on a tree branch behind them

Alice and the Cheshire Cat -- the grinning cat, with whom Alice has just had a conversation, fades away as it sits on a tree branch

Carduelis psaltria, Icterus galbula, I. Bullockii, Seiurus n
Plate 433 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Crow on a willow branch. Print shows a crow or raven perched on a branch in a willow tree. Date between 1868 and 1900

Ramphastos vitillenus, channel-billed toucan

Black Cat Night Prowl by Louis Wain Date: 1914

Dennis Skinner, Labour MP for Bolsover, Derbyshire
Dennis Edward Skinner (b 1932), Labour politician, MP for Bolsover since 1970. Well known for his outspoken remarks in parliament, for which he has been suspended more than ten times

La Grenouillere, 1869, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). French painter. La Grenouillere, 1869. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden

Suffragette Poetry Holloway Jingles. A collection of poems written in Holloway Prison during March and April 1912 and published by the Glasgow Branch of the Womens Social & Political Union

Grand Surrey Canal
Men loading large planks of wood onto (or off) a barge on the Peckham (London) branch of the Grand Surrey Canal, England. Date: early 1930s

Cactua moluccensis, salmon-crested cockatoo
Large Series plate 24, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China. The plant is Erythrina arborescens

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