Creeping Collection

Modern Athenians plate 8 - Edinburgh
John Irvine (d. 1839) beautifully described as a " creeping figure, of too solid flesh, so sadly restricted in locomotion". Facing him is Captain Hugo Arnot (d)

Lysimachia Nummularia
CREEPING JENNY

Creeping boobialla, Myoporum parvifolium. Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896

Brazilian fuchsia, Justicia floribunda (Libonia floribunda). Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne

Creeping wheat-grass or couch grass, Triticum repens. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1801

Creeping lady s-tresses, Goodyera repens. Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendals German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871

Cow parsnip, Heracleum sphondylium, and creeping thistle, Cirsium arvense. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Creeping yellowcress, Rorippa sylvestris, and pepperwort, Lepidium campestre. Thlaspi minus tenuifolium, Thlaspi minus latifolium

Garden cress, Lepidium sativum, and creeping yellowcress, Rorippa sylvestris. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Foraminifera, marine creeping protozoa
Thalamophora or Foraminifera, marine creeping protozoa. Quinqueloculina parkeri, Miliolinella fichteliana, Cornuspira planorbis, Articulina sagra, Spiroloculina nitida, Borelis melo

Creeping woodsorrel, Oxalis corniculata var. atropurpurea. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Creeping bentgrass, Agrostis stolonifera. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

Creeping sibbaldia, Sibbaldia procumbens. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

Alpine sainfoin, Hedysarum hedysaroides (Creeping rooted hedysarum, Hedysarum obscurum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sansom after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis

Creeping greek-valerian, Polemonium reptans. Handcoloured botanical engraving by Weddell from John Sims Curtiss Botanical Magazine, Couchman, London, 1816

Strawberry pear, Hylocereus trigonus
Strawberry pear Hylocereus trigonus (Triangular creeping cereus, Cactus triangularis). Handcoloured botanical engraving from John Sims Curtiss Botanical Magazine, Couchman, London, 1816

Rattail cactus, Disocactus flagelliformis (Creeping cereus, Cereus flagelliformis). Handcolured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis The

Creeping navelwort, Omphalodes verna (blue navelwort, Cynoglossum omphalodes). Handcolured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Curtis The Botanical

Wild thyme, Thymus serpyllum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants)

Curtis British Entomology Plate 613
Diptera: Bombylius major [Plant: Salix repens (Creeping Willow)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 474
Coleoptera: Hallomenus flexuosus = Abdera flexuosa (Banded Hallomenus) [Plant: Rorippa sylvestris (Sisymbrium sylvestre, Creeping Water-cress)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 295
Coleoptera: Callidium striatum = Asemum striatum (Kinnordy Cerambyx) [Plant: Cirsium arvense (Carduus arvensis, Creeping Thistle)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 41
Hymenoptera: Cimbex decem-maculata = Cimbex americanus (Ten-spotted Sawfly) [Plant: Holcus mollis (Creeping Soft Grass)] Date: 1824-39

Macaroon Folly Creation Date: 1935

Eskimos Build Igloo 3
Esquimaux creeping into the passage of a Snow Hut - observed during Franklins Arctic expedition. Date: 1818-1819

The War of the Worlds - Quietly observing a martian
" I began to closely observe this fighting machine, making sure, first, that the hood (cap) contained a species which was actually Martian." Date: First published: 1898

Bullock Creeping Grip tractors, tank experiment, WW1
Bullock Creeping Grip tractors coupled together -- a tank experiment during the First World War. Date: circa 1915

Girl Stranded in Flood
A young woman dressed only in stockings, hat and scarf, clutches an umbrella and shelters on the top of a lamppost from the rain and creeping flood waters Date: 1919

Cartoon, Taking advantage of the dark, WW1
Cartoon, Taking advantage of the dark -- a Zeppelin airship creeps over Paris at night with deadly intent. Date: 1916

Plants / Polygala Sp
Illecebrum Verticillatum Creeping Milkwort Date: 1636

Sikh soldiers in France during the First World War stealthily creep up on a German artillery battery. Date: 1915

Creeping alloplectus, Alloplectus repens.. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and lithographed by Walter Hood Fitch for Sir William Jackson Hookers Curtiss Botanical Magazine, London

Trachymene procumbens, creeping wild parsnip
Finished watercolour by John Cleveley from an original outline drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

Phlox stolonifera, creeping phlox
Painting by Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759-1840), from his publication Choix des plus belles fleurs (The Most Beautiful Flowers), c. 1827-33

American soldiers going into action, France, WW1
American soldiers going into action near Badonviller, north eastern France, during the First World War. Date: 17 March 1918

Experiments with tractors, Burton on Trent, WW1
Experiments with two Creeping Grip or Bullock tractors coupled together at Burton on Trent during the First World War. Date: June 1915

Miss Muffet / Mother Goose
Litle Miss Muffet eating her curds and whey unaware that there is an enormous spider, with a hat, creeping up behind her

Shadow drawing. C. H. Bennett, Snail
Creeping like a Snail. Illustration from a series of shadow portraits of fictional characters by Charles H Bennett entitled Shadow and Substance, 1860

Origin Species, CH Bennett, slow schoolboy - snail
Unwillingly to school. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of a unwilling schoolboy from a snail. Developing through the ages from a dunces cap

An Attack in the Rear
A mischievous young boy hides behind a pillar waiting to throw the snowballs that hes carrying at the next unsuspecting passer-by

Geum Reptans (Creeping Avens), a perennial plant of the Rosaceae family

French infantry creeping forward on the Western Front
French infantry in the front line on hands and knees creeping forward to within charging distance. Two soldiers are seen in the foreground wearing steel helmets

Thymus Eu-Serpyllum
Creeping Wild Thyme

Plants / Cynodon Dactylon
Creeping Dog s-Tooth Grass

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