Crow Collection

Farmer and team of working horses plough a field
A team of two heavy horses plough a field, watched by a large crow and a pet springer spaniel. Watercolour painting by Malcom Greensmith Date: circa 1980

Four members of the Corvidae family -- a raven (corvus corax) and three crows (corvus corone, corvus cornix and corvus frugilegus)

Old Crow whiskey. Whiskey advertising label showing two women burlesque performers. Date c1870

Crow on a willow branch. Print shows a crow or raven perched on a branch in a willow tree. Date between 1868 and 1900

Carrion Crow (Morris)
CARRION CROW (Corvus corone)

The Fox and the Crow
The cunning fox is able to trick the crow into dropping the cheese from her beak by implying that she cannot sing

Couple under umbrella in the snow (crow and heron). Print shows a man and a woman standing in the snow beneath a snow-covered umbrella

Sleeping Beauty - 6
Beauty - and everyone else in the palace, human or animal - fall asleep under the witchs spell: only she and her familiars, cat and crow, are immune

The fox & the crow. Aesops fable.Date: 15th century

Corvus brachyrhynchos, American crow
Plate 156 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1831-34), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Pied currawong, Strepera graculina (Noisy crow, Corvus strepera). Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder from William Elford Leachs Zoological Miscellany

Cover design, British Airways Summer Timetable 1938, as the crow flies, only faster! 1938

Sleeping Beauty - 5
Beauty comes upon the old woman spinning in an upstairs chamber of the palace. The cat and the crow should be a warning to her that the old woman is a witch

Misfitz - Qua-Qua. early 20th century

Royston crow cross-section - 1808s
Royston crow cross-section. 1808. From Cayleys original notebook

The summit of The Lawley, in the Shropshire Hills, England. The image of the crow represents an icon of the Corbet family coat of arms

North American P-51D Mustang N167F Old Crow (msn 122-40417), at Duxford. Date: circa 2002

Boeing NKC-135A 55-3134
United States Navy - Boeing NKC-135A 55-3134 (MSN 17250), at Davis-Monthan AFB for storage and disposal. Initially converted to JKC-135A test aircraft and then to NKC-135A King Crow I?

North American P-51D-10-NA Mustang 44-14450 - Old Crow
North American P-51D-10-NA Mustang 44-14450 / Old Crow (msn 122-28083) Date: circa 2000

Crow Trees farm, Muker, Swaledale in the 1940s (hand coloured photo)

Australian Pictorial Letterette pack cover
Souvenir of Adelaide - Australian Pictorial Letterette pack cover - J. B. Siddall, Printer - Bowman Arcade, Adelaide. Date: 1913

Crow Nest, Lightcliffe, residence of Sir Titus Salt
Crow Nest, Lightcliffe, Brighouse, West Yorkshire, residence of Sir Titus Salt, businessman Date: 1877

How to Make Roof-Spotting a Pleasure
William Heath Robinson invention for keeping watch from attack. A warden perched up high above the streets with an umbrella for protection, tea-cup-holder and an easy chair. Date: 1941

Bob Crow, RMT trade union leader, with a banner
Bob Crow, British trade union leader, General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) and a member of the General Council of the TUC

Bob Crow, RMT trade union leader, in Trafalgar Square
Bob Crow, British trade union leader, General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) and a member of the General Council of the TUC

Bob Crow, RMT trade union leader, giving a speech
Bob Crow, British trade union leader, General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) and a member of the General Council of the TUC

TREASURE ISLAND/ISRAEL
The death of Israel Hands: "the coxswain loosed his grasp upon the shrouds, & plunged head first into the water." Date: First published: 1883

A teepee. Date: circa 1830

AT COCK-CROW
The spirits of the dead return to their graves at cock-crow Date: 1908

LITTLE CROW Famous fighting chief. Date: 1905

Design with six black crows Date: circa 1930s

Green heron, Butorides virescens, male 1, young 2. Chromolithograph after an ornithological illustration by John James Audubon from Benjamin Harry Warrens Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania, E.K

American crow and brown-headed cowbird
American crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos 1, and brown-headed cowbird, Molothrus ater, female 2, and male 3. Chromolithograph after an ornithological illustration by John James Audubon from Benjamin Harry

Pied crow, Corvus albus. (Senegal white-backed crow, Corvus leuconotus.) Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William John Swainson from his Birds of Western Africa

Lizard buzzard, Kaupifalco monogrammicus. (Black-chinned gosshawk, Aster monogrammicus.) Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William John Swainson from his Birds

Piapiac, Ptilostomus afer (Long tailed crow, Corvus caudatus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Indian pitta, Pitta brachyura (Short-tailed crow, Corvus brachyurus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Azure-winged magpie, Cyanopica cyanus (Cyanean crow, Corvus cyaneus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Baliccasiao and crested gallito
Azure drongo or balicassiao, Dicrurus balicassius, and crested gallito, Rhinocrypta lanceolata. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rene Primevere Lessons Complements de Buffon, Pourrat Freres

Greater coucal, Centropus sinensis
Greater coucal or crow pheasant, Centropus sinensis (Chestnut coucal). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1822

Hair-crested drongo, Dicrurus hottentottus (Crishna crow or Krishna rai). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1822

Daurian jackdaw, Corvus dauuricus (White-breasted crow, Corvus dauricus). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1822

Purple-throated fruit crow, Querula purpurata (Red throated piha, Querula rubricollis). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William Swainson from Sir William

Willow, Crow flowers, Nettles, Daisies, and Long-purples (Hamlet). Handcoioured botanical illustration drawn and lithographed by Jane Elizabeth Giraud from The Flowers of Shakespeare, Day and Haghe

Wild garlic, Allium vineale
Wild garlic, crow garlic or stags garlic, Allium vineale. Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendals German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871

Illustration, A Stalking Horse. first published 1838

Unclean Air Birds - Judaism
Engraving of unclean (non - kosher) air birds

Foxs adventures with verses inside a Christmas card
Foxs adventures with a crow, geese and a rabbit inside a Christmas card. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping