Cheek Collection

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

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

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

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

Parus caeruleus, blue tit
A blue tit (Parus caeruleus) in flight, U.K.The blue tit is common throughout Britain living mainly in deciduous woodland. Photographed by Frank Greenaway

Peter Pan & Wendy
Peter being kissed gently on the cheek by Wendy. Date: First published: 1904

Nyctanassa violacea, yellow-crowned night heron
Plate 79, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby

Old Delhi street scene
A crowded, hot, dusty street in Old Delhi. A vendor stands with a large basket on his head in the centre of the crowd Date: 1987

The Strife of Lent with Shrovetide, c. 1550, by Pieter Bruegh
Pieter Brueghel the Elder (c.1525-1569). Flemish painter. The Strife of Lent with Shrovetide, c.1550. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark

Fashionable 1950S Hat
A woman wears a felt hat which has a felt ribbon tied around it. The model features a beauty spot on her cheek. Date: 1950s

Jynx torquilla, wryneck, Dendrocopos major, great spotted wo
Plate 60 from Archibald Thorburns second edtition of British Birds, Vol. 2 (1925)

Dacelo novaeguineae, laughing kookaburra
Drawing No. 57, watercolour by George Raper (1792) from The Raper Collection

Kingfisher
Plate 336, hand coloured copperplate etching from George Edwards The Gleanings of Natural History, Vol. 3 (1764). Annotated Crested kingfisher

Oxyura jamaicensis, ruddy duck
Plate 343 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

Alcedo athhis, common kingfisher
Watercolour by Charles F. Tunnicliffe (c. 1973)

Dendrocopos major, great spotted woodpecker
Plate 26 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Passer domesticus, house sparrow
Plate 32 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Podiceps cristatus, great crested grebe
Plate 38 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Bucephala clangula, common goldeneye
Plate 31 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Phalacrocorax carbo, great cormorant
Plate 52 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Original Artwork - Card King kisses Card Queen
Original Artwork - Design for a Valentine or bridge-related greetings card - The playing card King gives his playing card Queen a kiss on the cheek. Date: circa 1937

Chukchi woman with tattoos on her cheek, chin and arm, and ear piercings. (Chukotka region, Russia). From Joseph Billings

Comic Postcard - Golfing Humour - One Down
Comic Postcard - " Wasn t I two up at the last hole, Caddie?" " Yes, but yer one down now, Lady!" circa 1930s

Viscountess St Davids
Doreen Jowett became Viscountess St Davids when she married Jestyn Philipps, 2nd Viscount St Davids in 1938. Date: 1939

New Year Greetings Card - young couple - kiss on the cheek
A New Year Greetings Card, featuring a young German couple sharing a bottle of bubbly and a kiss (above a small incidental table!) - The Passing hours of New Year seem - As peaceful as a happy dream

Comic postcard - plump man on the beach - I Can t See My Little Charlie Date: circa 1949

Comic postcard - plump woman on beach - I Can t See My Little Charlie Date: circa 1949

c. 1880s Japan - two geishas cheek to cheek

Comic Seaside Postcard - I Can t See My Little Johnny
I Can t See My Little Johnny - Humorous saucy seaside postcard design by Donald McGill (1875-1962). Date: circa 1949

Man in his sick bed surrounded by doting wife, children, and maids. Miseries of Human Life. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Great St Bernard Hospice in the Pennine Alps, Switzerland
Great St Bernard Hospice for travellers in the Pennine Alps, Switzerland, 1800s. Ospizio del Gran S. Bernardo. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient

Orange-Cheeked Waxbill. Date: 1933

Naughy boy, Dublin street
A mischievous small boy laughs as he sits on the kerb of the footpath in a Dublin Street, Ireland Date: 1990

Cows in Jaipur street, India
Cows and calves lie in the road of a busy shopping street in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, as a mother walks past with her children. A small boy looks back at the camera Date: 1987

Humorous British Christmas card - a rather stern-faced guardsman is about to get a shock as a bunch of n er-do-well street urchins are following him with a lot of bangers and rockets...!

Two children sitting on a beach -- a little boy kisses a little girl on the cheek. Date: circa 1960s

Pteroglossus beauharnaesii, curl-crested aracari

Breakfast, 1866, by Amalia Lindegren
Amalia Lindegren (1814-1891). Swedish painter. Breakfast, 1866. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden

Portrait of a Girl, c. 1892, by Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). French painter. Portrait of a Girl, c.1892. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary

If Germany Wins -- the Kaisers sons, WW1
A rather sickening and defeatist (or perhaps tongue-in-cheek) item, suggesting what might happen if Germany wins the First World War

Advertisement for National Benzole petroleum -- boy model (Denis Gilmore) in school uniform. 1959

Advertisement for Remington shaver -- male and female models (Sandra Paul and Derek Ufton). 1959

Street Vendor selling Nuts to Gentleman with a Simian Visage
Street Vendor cheekily offering the sale of some nuts to a diminutive Gentleman with a distinctive Simian visage!! Date: 1899

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

LS Plate 14 from the John Reeves Collection
Large Series plate 14, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Barnardius zonarius, Australian ringneck
Plate 21 from Ferdinand Lucas Bauers zoological watercolours and drawings observed during Captain Matthew Flinders circumnavigational survey of Australia (Investigator 1801-1803)

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)

Two Nubian men - Egypt
A very fine photographic postcard depicting two Nubian men - Egypt

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