Crow Collection (page 2)

Crow Medicine Man and Medicine Horse - " He jump from hees pony to dees Red Horse." Date: 1897

David Frances Barry photo - Hidastas Chief
Hidastas Chief Crow that Flies High, also known as Heart. The son of Likes Eagle of the Hidatsa tribe from Gros Ventres village

Curtis British Entomology Plate 526
Coleoptera: Anisoplia suturalis = Phyllopertha horticola (Sutherland Bracken-clock) [Plant: Empetrum nigrum (Crow- or Crake-berry)] Date: 1824-39

The magpie (pica rustica), a member of the crow family. Date: 1899

Seasons - An October Morning
A crow leaves his nightime roost amongst a copice of trees, slowly shedding their leaves. An atmospheric view of a misty Autumn morning painted with an airbrush by Malcolm Greensmith. Date: circa 1980

CORONIS BECOMES A CROW
Coronis is hotly pursued by Poseidon / Naptune; to help her escape his unwelcome advances, Athena / Minerva transforms her into a crow

Cinderella, a pantomime

Crow on motor bike, Sri Lanka
Carrion crow perched on the handle bars of a motor bike in Colombo, Sri Lanka Date: 1994

Crows on boats, Sri Lanka
Black crows on beached boats, Sri Lanka Date: 1994

Crow on boat, Sri Lanka
Black carrion crow on brightly painted boat bow, Sri Lanka Date: 1994

Medieval coins. Left: Diner quatern. Reign of Alfonso I of C
Medieval coins. 12th-13th century. Left: Diner quatern. Minted in Barcelona. Reverse. Reign of Alfonso I of Catalonia(1162-1196). Right: Diner Doblenc. Minted in Barcelona. Reverse

Isabel de Villena (1430-1490). Female writer. Vita Christi
Isabel de Villena (1430-1490). Female writer in the Catalan language. Vita Christi (Christs Life), 1527. Incunable. Spain

Joanna of Castile with her parents, Isabella and Ferdinand
Isabella I of Castile (1451-1504), queen of Castille and Leon, Ferdinand II of Aragon (1452-1516) and their daughter Joanna of Castile(1478-1555), known as Joan the Mad

Poster advertising India, the Land of Sunshine and Colour
Poster by K I Nixon advertising India, The Land of Sunshine and Colour, showing crows in a Gulmohar (Gul Mohr, Delonix Regia) tree. Printed by Bolton Fine Art, Bombay. Date: circa 1930

Variety of birds eggs
1- swallow, 2- cuckoo, 3- rook, 4- crow, 5- jackdaw, 6- jay, 7- sparrowhawk, 8- kestrel, 9- ringed plover, 10- snipe, 11- black tern, 12- common tern. Date: 1894

Cartoon, Keep your mouth shut, WW1
Cartoon, Keep your mouth shut -- a new take on a fable of Aesop during the First World War, where the fox will never be able to get the crow to open his mouth and drop the nice piece of cheese

Cats on a roof, Les Images en Musique
Cats having fun on a roof, illustration in Les Images en Musique, with illustrations by Benjamin Rabier and easy pieces for piano by Jane Vieu. Date: 1908

WW1 - Cartoon - As the eagle flies
WW1 - A cartoon personifying the German enemy as vultures. It waits on post to either prey on the crow or eagle. Date: 1914

Flindersia australis, crow ash tree

Saint Expeditus
SAINT EXPEDITUS martyr, invoked at the eleventh hour for prompt solutions to urgent problems He is trampling a crow because they are notorious delayers

Siege weapons, a battering ram and a crow
Two siege weapons in action -- a battering ram being attacked by a Crow (Corvus) equipped with pincers

Gallic cock crow for the Paris exhibtion by Gilbert James
A woman dressed in a Pierrot or clown outfit is helped in her performance by a cockerel balancing on an egg. 1899

French Cockerel proudly defeating the German Black Eagle
The French Cockerel stands proud having defeated the German Eagle (standing on a German fur busby decorated with a Totenkopf - Deaths Head symbols). Date: 1914

Postwar poster, French and Italian Bank
Postwar poster in Spanish, French and Italian Bank, investment in French government loan with five per cent interest. 1920

Medieval coins. Left: Diner tern. Obverse. Alfonso III of Ar
Medieval coins. Left: Diner tern. Minted in Barcelona. Obverse. Alfonso III of Aragon and II of Catalonia, the Liberal. Right: Croat. Coined in Barcelona. Reverse. Municipal Historical Institute

Gothic. Altarpiece of Sant Jordi by Pere Nicart. Detail. Palmas Port. 15th century. Diocesan Museum. Palma. Mallorja. Balearic Islands. Spain

Pedro Marcuello offers his Cancionero to Philip the Handso
Pedro Marcuello offers his Cancionero to Philip I of Castile (1478-1506), known as Philip the Handsome and Joanna of Castile (1479-1555), known as Joan the Mad, in 1502

Spain. Extremadura. Azuaga. Church of Nuestra Senora de la Consolacion. 15th-16th. Isabelline gothic style. Facada

Burial Tepee of a Chiefs Wife, USA
The burial tepee of the wife of a Chief from the Crow tribe of Native Americans. Date: circa 1895

Racial / Crow Chief C1860
A Crow chief in full war dress Date: circa 1860

Ancient siege weapons in action -- the Corvus or Crow (top) and the battering ram (below). Date: circa 1800

Cover design, Two Simple Tales for Simple Folks, a pocket book for children with text by Hs Stirling, illustrated by John Hassall and Cecil Aldin. Showing a crowing cockerel. Date: 1904

The dancing lesson, Les Images en Musique
Cats taking part in a dancing lesson in a park, illustration in Les Images en Musique, with illustrations by Benjamin Rabier and easy pieces for piano by Jane Vieu. Date: 1908

Wreck of an airship, Les Images en Musique
The wreck of an airship, getting caught up on a chimney pot and a weathervane, illustration in Les Images en Musique, with illustrations by Benjamin Rabier and easy pieces for piano by Jane Vieu

WW1 - Peace Talks in Paris, France, 1919
WW1 - A illustration of a giant gargoyle sitting of the city of Paris, as if waiting on the news from the peace talks. Date: 1919

Purple throated fruit crow, Querula purpurata.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1800

Violaceous crow, Corvus violaceus, and magpie tanager, Cissopis leveriana.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology, Paris

Indian pitta, Pitta brachyura.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine, Harrison, London, 1800

Hooded crow, Corvus cornix.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821

French views of German ambitions, WW1
A fold-out item expressing French views of German ambitions during the First World War. At the centre, the French cockerel crows, proclaiming the dawn of liberty

Fruit Label -- head of a cockerel
Fruit Label depicting the head of a cockerel. Date: 20th century

Pinocchio -- ill in bed
Pinocchio -- The doctors came immediately... a Crow, an Owl, and a Talking Cricket. Date: 1911

Nursery Rhyme -- The Carrion Crow. A tailor sits sewing, and is irritated by a carrion crow making a noise in a tree. He aims at the crow with his crossbow

Nursery Rhymes -- washday, horse and crow
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- a man and a woman on wash day. Below -- a crow startles a horse so much that the two riders are thrown off. Date: early 20th century

Nursery Rhymes -- bull and dog, cockerel
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations, showing a bull tossing an unfortunate dog into the air, and a cock crowing at sunrise, waking all the farmyard animals. Date: early 20th century

Aesops Fables
This picture depicts small snapshots of some of Aesops most famous fables like the hare and the tortoise and the fox and the grapes

Nursery Rhymes -- two birds, man and chimney
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- a white cockatoo and a black crow. Below -- a man clings to a chimney. Date: early 20th century

An Old Maids Honeymoon - she flies away in a lemon balloon with her pet cat, crow and yellow canaries. The anchor bears the word hope. Date: 1910

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