Curved Collection (page 4)

Arlington Court, Devon, with horse-drawn carriage
A view of Arlington Court, a National Trust property in neoclassical style near Barnstaple in North Devon, with a horse-drawn carriage in the driveway

Greyhound Bus Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, in art deco style. Date: 1942

Panoramic view of Botafogo Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Sugar Loaf Mountain can be seen (left of centre), and the Ministry of Agriculture building (right of centre). Date: circa 1908

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, The Barbary Sheep. Date: 1933

Pigeons - Burmese or Florentine, Starling and Spot Fairy
A portrait illustration showing three breeds of pigeon. At the top of the illustration is a Burmese pigeon, now commonly known as a Florentine

Isle of Man. Glen Helen. Rustic bridge
Hand coloured. A curved wooden foot bridge over a small river surrounded by trees. A bearded man stands on the bridge.. Part of Box 365, Miscellaneous Part 1, Boswell collection. Slide number 24

Wien Hotel, Kotzebue, NW Alaska, USA
Wien Hotel and Alaska Airlines, Kotzebue, NW Alaska, north of the Arctic Circle, Bering Strait, USA. Date: circa 1950

Hotel des Alpes, Meiringen, Switzerland

A curved stem pipe, finely hand carved - WWI
A curved stem pipe, finely hand carved by and belonging to Driver P. S. Wilson, a lorry driver with the Army Service Corps. during the First World War

Row of Nissen huts at a rest camp, Western Front, WW1
A row of Nissen huts at a rest camp on the Western Front during World War One. The semi-cylindrical Nissen hut was invented by Major Peter Norman Nissen in 1916. Date: circa 1916

Group of sportswomen
A group of seven sportswomen with hockey sticks, who have stopped for a break and a bite to eat

Street scene in Copenhagen, Denmark, with shops and housing. Date: 20th century

Italy - Siena - A Sienese long-horned bull
Italy - Siena - A full-face view of a Sienese long-horned bull Date: circa 1903

The Mahmud II dam in the Belgrade Forest - Istanbul, Turkey
The Mahmud II dam in the Belgrade Forest (Belgrad OrmanAn) lying 15km north-west of Istanbul, Turkey. Built in 1839 as one of the three dams that were constructed in the Taksim water conveyance

Tchete - Turkish Peasant from Cilicia, Syria
A Tchete - Turkish Peasant brigand from Cilicia photographed in Syria (very close by) Date: circa 1910s

Hanoi - Vietnam - Wheelbarrow driver - delivering his load of recently deceased pigs! Date: circa 1904

Mont des Arts - Brussels, Belgium
Mont des Arts (Mountain of Arts) - Brussels, Belgium Date: circa 1940s

Lituus and a Buccina
Lituus - The original version of the antique straight instrument pictured, found at Cervetri in the tomb of a warrior, is preserved in a museum in the Vatican, Rome, Italy

Kazan Cathedral, St Petersburg, Russia
View of Kazan Cathedral on Nevski Prospekt, St Petersburg, Russia. This Russian Orthodox cathedral is dedicated to Our Lady of Kazan, a 16th century icon of the Virgin Mary

London, England - Regent Street Date: 1904

George Cayleys design (side elevation) for contra-rotating tandem airscrews for airship propulsion; the airscrews have curved blades mounted on rods radiating from the hubs; the whole mounting can be

Progress at the north (central terminal area) approach to the airport cargo tunnel, where there will be a traffic roundabout and reinforced concrete flyover bridge curved in plan

Arrester gear hooks on the undercarriage of a Sopwith Pup. The curved strip was an airscrew guard

Aulacorhamphus prasinus, emerald toucanet
Plate 47, hand coloured lithograph by John Gould and Henry Constantine Richter from John Goulds A Monograph of the Ramphastid, or family of Toucans, 2nd edition, (1854)

Mycteria leucocephala, painted stork
Plate 23 by Sydney Parkinson from the Loten Collection

Paradisaea rudolphi, blue bird-of-paradise
Plate 29 from Richard Bowdler Sharpes Monograph of the Paradiseidae, Vol.1, (1893)

Pyrrhoxcorax pyrrhocorax, red-billed chough
Plate 29 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Numenius arquata, Eurasian curlew
Plate 17 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Threnetes niger cervinicauda, pale-tailed barbthroat
Plate 14, hand coloured lithograph from John Goulds A Monograph of the Trochilid, or Family of Hummingbirds, Vol.1, (1849-61)

Hemignathus virens, Hawaii amakihi
Ff. 31, watercolour by William Ellis from a collection of sketches of Mammals, Birds and Fish made on Captian James Cooks third voyage (1776-1780)

Hemignathus obscurus, lesser akialoa

Trachinotus goreensis, longfin pompano
Ff. 220. Pencil sketch by George Forster made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Leptocoma zeylonicus, purple-rumped sunbird
Plate 56, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Phaenicophaeus pyrrhocephalus, red-faced malkoha
Plate 24, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Recurvirostra avosetta, pied avocet
Plate 52 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Drepanis pacifica, Hawaii mamo
Ff. 27, watercolour by William Ellis from a collection of sketches of Mammals, Birds and Fish made on Captian James Cooks third voyage (1776-1780)

Phaethornis anthophilus, pale-bellied hermit
Plate 24, hand coloured lithograph from John Goulds A Monograph of the Trochilid, or Family of Hummingbirds, Vol.1, (1849-61)

Terpsiphone bourbonnensis, Leptocoma zeylonica
Plate 42, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Collection of mixed dead birds
Plate 65, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Philesternus carrunculatus, saddleback
Ff. 73, watercolour by William Ellis from a collection of sketches of Mammals, Birds and Fish made on Captian James Cooks third voyage (1776-1780)

Leptocoma zeylonica, purple-rumped sunbird
Plate 57, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Stone age horse
A plastic replica of amber stone age horse carving. Image from Amber the Natural Time Capsule fig. 23

Recurvirostra novaehollandiae, red-necked avocet
Watercolour 334 by the Port Jackson Painter from the Watling Collection titled American Avoset

Philomachus pugnax, ruff
Plate 87, hand coloured engraving from Eleazar Albins A Natural History of Birds, (1734)

Ptiloris magnificus, magnificent riflebird

Watercolour of a bird by Olivia Fanny Tonge
Watercolour by Olivia Fanny Tonge. 180mm x 260mm. From one of sixteen sketchbooks presented to the Museum in 1952

Merops apiaster, European bee-eater
Plate 144 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Ptiloris paradiseus, paradise riflebird
Plate 100, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from John Goulds The Birds of Australia, Vol.4, (1840-1848)

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