Collector Collection (page 4)

JOHN JONES Tailor and art collector Date: 1800 - 1882

John Taylor Johnston
JOHN TAYLOR JOHNSTON American railway magnate and art collector. Date: 1820 - 1893

Japan - Geisha with crickets in a small cage. Date: circa 1905

Gentleman storming out of a meeting with the Taxman
Gentleman storming out of a meeting with a (rather odious and bureaucratic-looking Taxman - " And Thats That!" Date: circa 1940s

18, 000 farthings for London Slum Childrens Breakfasts
18, 000 farthings collected in 1907 by R Arnold of 15 Mount Pleasant, Tunbridge Wells, Kent for the charitable purchase of London Slum Childrens Breakfasts. Date: 1907

The Octroi - Sketch in Paris by Phil May. The Octroi was a local consumption tax, so this gentleman is seemingly the tax collector. Date: 1898

Bailiff very well treated
Bailiff (who has been very well treated and settled with) - " Well good-bye, Sir. See you again soon, Sir, I ope!" Date: 1902

James Orrock - landscape painter and watercolour
Brother Brushes - Portrait drawing by Phil May of James Orrock (1829-1913) - Scottish landscape painter, watercolourist and art collector. Originally qualified as a dentist

Mussel Collectors by Karl Daubigny (1846-1886). Date: 1867

Athene blewitti, forest owlet
Donated to the Museum in 1954 by Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, it was discovered that he had in fact stolen the specimen from the Museum and changed its label

Letter from A. R. Wallace to his mother, 28 May 1854
Page 2 of a letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his mother about sending beetles to his agent Mr Stevens, future travel plans and his daily routine as a collector, dated May 1854

Bubalus bubalis, Indian water buffalo
These are the largest Indian water buffalo horns ever recorded, each almost 2 metres long

Mary Anning (actress)
An actress at the Natural History Museum playing the part of Mary Anning, the famous fossil collector from Lyme Regis, England

Charles Hazelius Sternberg (1850-1943)
Portrait of Charles Hazelius Sterrnberg, an American fossil collector and amateur paleontologist

Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus: Head only
From the Lower Jurassic, Lyme Regis, Dorset. This specimen is the first articulated plesiosaur ever found and one of Mary Annings greatest discoveries

Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus: Head and neck
From the Lower Jurassic, Lyme Regis, Dorset. This specimen is the first articulated plesiosaur ever found and one of Mary Annings greatest discoveries

Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus skeleton
From the Lower Jurassic, Lyme Regis, Dorset. This is the first articulated plesiosaur ever found and one of Mary Annings greatest discoveries. Length 2.9 meters

Various beetles and arachnids
Drawer of a selection of various entomological specimens from the Sloane Collection at the Natural History Museum, London

Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800-1894)
Portrait of Brian Houghton Hodgson, taken in 1860, aged 60. Plate 1 from the collection made by Brian Houghton Hodgson, a ethnologist

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911)
Youngest son of the botanist and professor William Jackson Hooker. Joseph Dalton Hooke, became an established botanist, plant collector and traveller

Prionotus miles, Galapagos gurnard
Fish collected by Charles Darwin in the Galapagos Islands. From his Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle

Asio flammeus galapagoensis, short-eared owl
Plate, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from Charles Robert Darwins Zoology of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle, Part 3 Birds, (1838-41)

Homonota darwini and Naultinuselegans, two species of lizar

Buteo galapagoensis, Galapagos hawk
Plate, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from Charles Robert Darwins Zoology of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle, Part 3 Birds, (1838-41)

Temnodontosaurus platyodon (Conybeare)
The skull of Temnodontosaurus platyodon, an Ichthyosaurus which lived between 201 and 194 million years ago in the Lower Jurassic. It was discovered by Mary Annings brother in 1811 in Lyme Regis

Dimorphodon macronyx
The fossil skull and lower jaw belonging to Dimorphodon macronyx. It was a giant flying reptile, or Pterosaur that lived during the Lower Jurassic period

Specimens from the Cocos-Keeling Atol
Coral specimens collected by Charles Darwin (1809-1882) during the Voyage of the Beagle in the Indian Ocean

Poem by Mary Anning (1799-1871)
Encomium Murchisonaum, a poem written c. 1840s by Mary Anning in honour of the geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871). Page 2 of 3

Skull of Toxodon platensis
Three-quarters view. Skull length is 66 cms. Pleistocene specimen collected by Charles Darwin near Montevideo, Uraguay during the voyage of the Beagle 1832-1836

Foot of Macrauchenia patachonica
Maximum dimension 30.5 cms. Pleistocene specimen collected by Charles Darwin in Argentina during the voyage of the Beagle 1832-1836

Poems by Mary Anning (1799-1871)
Encomium Murchisonaum, a poem written c. 1840 s. Page 3 of 3. The Complaint of a sunbeam against Dr Faraday, written in honour of the English physicist and chemist Michael Faraday (1791-1867)

John Reeves (1774-1856)
Portrait of John Reeves, a British naturalist. Miniature oil painting, artist unknown, c. 1815. Original held at the Natural History Museum, London

FORTUNY, Mariano (1838-1874). Engraving Collector. 1863. Work painted in Rome. Romanticism. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. Barcelona. National Art Museum of Catalonia

Jacopo Strada
Tiziano Vecello, also called Titian (1490-1576). Portrait of Jacopo Strada, antiquarian, art collector and writer, presenting a small statue - a Roman copy of an Aphrodite of Praxiteles

Stocks of fire brigade hose fittings, LFB HQ workshops
An assortment of pump collector heads, hose adapters and suction hoses on the floor of the London Fire Brigade workshops at Lambeth

Sir John Soanes Museum, 1864
Sir John Soanes Museum at Lincoln Inn Fields, 1864. Victorian visitors admire the Monks Parlour. 1864

Samuel Boddington
SAMUEL BODDINGTON Noted English collector with his autograph Date: 1767 - 1843

JOHN LEE Scientist and collector with his autograph Date: 1783 - 1866

Boildieu and Paintings
FRANCOIS ADRIEN BOIELDIEU The French musician is also an assiduous art collector, and draws this caricature of himself returning home with the days catch. Date: 1775 - 1834

The receiver of taxes, 16th century
French citizens arrive to pay taxes to the tax receiver. Date: 16th Century

Poster, Your Waste Paper is Urgently Needed Now
Wartime salvage poster, Your Waste Paper is Urgently Needed Now, save it for the collector when he calls. 1940s

Charles Humbert with munitions for Verdun, France
Charles Humbert (1866-1927), French army captain, tax collector, senator and newspaper proprietor. Seen here with piles of munitions destined for Verdun, France, during the First World War

Hy. Constantine Jennings
HENRY CONSTANTINE JENNINGS Virtuoso and collector Date: 1731 - 1819

Sir Robert Bruce Cotton
sir ROBERT BRUCE COTTON antiquary and collector 1571 - 1631

Little boy working on his stamp collection
A little boy working on his stamp collection at a table. He has various stamps laid out, and is sticking them carefully into an album

Spur to a guilty conscience - not writing to friends
All these write regularly - Why the Devil don t you? Spur to a guilty conscience - not writing to friends! This card illustrates those individuals who will oft communicate with the written word

Music cover for Godfreys Chilperic Quadrille
Music cover for Charles Godfreys Chilperic Quadrille, based on airs from Herves popular opera buffa (or operetta) Chilperic

Collector of Dung - Constantinople, Turkey with his pony bearing two wicker panniers to hold the gathered refuse and a spade to pick it up with!

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