Common Gallery

Metropolitan Police officer on traffic duty

A Metropolitan Police officer, PC Edward Ridout of Chelsea Police Station, on traffic duty. He is standing by a zebra crossing to help a little boy across the road. A 49 bus to Streatham Common has stopped -- the little boy himself pulls a toy red bus along behind him. Date: 1950s

© Mary Evans Picture Library

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Great bustard, Otis tarda (vulnerable)

Great bustard, Otis tarda (vulnerable), and common ringed plover, Charadrius hiaticula.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croix's Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology, Paris, France, 1816-1830. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by Plie, directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by F.G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History

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Sollya, changeable apple-berry and Chinese pittosporum

Common sollya, Sollya heterophylla, changeable apple-berry, Billardiera mutabilis, and Chinese pittosporum, Pittosporum tobira. Handfinished chromolithograph by Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flower Garden or Ornamental Greenhouse Plants, William S. Orr, London, 1849. Date:

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