Cormorant Collection

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

COMMON CORMORANT (Phalacrocorax carbo) Holding a fish Date: 1851

Fish-catching cormorants at the Hippodrome
Four cormorants, brought from China to appear at the London Hippodrome in 1905. Their act consisted of retrieving fish thrown into the water tank and when a large trout was put in

Chinese fishermen using cormorants to catch fish on a river 190, and golden carp species, harlequin 188 and sulphur carp 189

Great cormorant (Eurasian), Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis (Chinese pelican, Pelecanus sinensis). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Cormorant species used for fishing in Asia
Cormorant used for fishing in Asia, perhaps a great cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo, or Japanese cormorant, Phalacrocorax capillatus

Reed cormorant, Microcarbo africanus (Long-tailed cormorant, Carbo longicaudus). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines Naturalists Library

Chinese men cormorant fishing on a raft in the river, Qing Dynasty. Fishing cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon

Unclean Water Birds - Judaism
Engraving of unclean or non - kosher water birds. In Judaism, the concept of impure or unclean animals, plays a prominent role in Jewish law that specifies which foods are allowed (kosher)

Fishing with cormorants - China. Date: circa 1910s

The green cormorant Shag Phalacrocorax aristotelis
The green cormorant (Shag) (Phalacrocorax aristotelis). Parker, Richard Dunscombe 1805 - 1881

Cartoon, A Great Stream from a Petty Fountain, or, John Bull swamped in the Flood of new Taxes; Cormorants fishing in the Stream, by James Gillray

Three runaway schoolboys wash up on a deserted island, each hanging onto a broken mast - a solitary cormorant doesn t know quite what to make of these new arrivals. Date: 1898

Phalacrocorax perspecillatus, spectacled cormorant
Phalacrocorax perspecillatus is an extinct species of cormorant, discovered in the Bering Sea. It became extinct c. 1850

Phalacrocorax auritus, double-crested cormorant
Plate 252 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Vulpes vulgaris, fox and cormorant designs
Drawing 28 Vol 2 by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1876. (Two separate negatives)

Phalacrocorax penicillatus, Phalacrocorax pelagicus
Plate 412 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

Phalacrocorax perspicillatus, spectacled cormorant
Watercolour of by John Gerrard Keulemans (c. 1905)

Cormorant and white heron. Print shows a cormorant catching a fish and two white herons. Date 1789, printed later

The Fish & the Cormorant
THE FISH AND THE CORMORANT An elderly cormorant, unable to see, tricks the fish into being borne by him to a safe place, a shallow pond from where he can eat his fill

Cormorant & the Fishes
THE CORMORANT & THE FISHES The cormorant, having told the fish he would ferry them to safety in his beak, eats them at his leisure

Japanese Fishing 1933
Japanese fishing with beacons to attract the fish and cormorants to catch them Date: 1933

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