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Damsel Collection

Background imageDamsel Collection: Dragonflies and damselflies

Dragonflies and damselflies from Collection of Drawings by Dutch Artists, 17th-19th centuries. Held in the Entomology Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageDamsel Collection: Sapphire damsel and harlequin sweetlips

Sapphire damsel and harlequin sweetlips
Sapphire damsel, Pomacentrus pavo, pavone di mare 1, and harlequin sweetlips, Plectorhinchus chaetodonoides, Plettorinco chetodonoides 2

Background imageDamsel Collection: Red lionfish and blue blanquillo

Red lionfish and blue blanquillo
Red lionfish, Pterois volitans, Pteroide volante 1, and blue blanquillo, Taenianotus latovittatus, Tenianoto striata larga 2

Background imageDamsel Collection: Damsel fish, ringtail pike cichlid and redbreasted wrasse

Damsel fish, ringtail pike cichlid and redbreasted wrasse
Damsel fish, Sparus chromis, ringtail pike cichlid, Crenicichla saxatilis, and redbreasted wrasse, Cheilinus fasciatus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Plee Sr

Background imageDamsel Collection: Lion mauling woman 1870

Lion mauling woman 1870
Performance in the Bowery Theatre in New York, were young woman Minnie Wells the Lion Queen, was doing her usual act, but on this fateful night, two lionesses sprang upon her

Background imageDamsel Collection: A Damsel in Distress by Ian Hay and P. G. Wodehouse

A Damsel in Distress by Ian Hay and P. G. Wodehouse
A Damsel in Distress by Ian Hay (17 April 1876 22 September 1952) and P.G. Wodehouse (15 October 1881 14 February 1975), based on Wodehouses novel written in 1919

Background imageDamsel Collection: Pointy Medieval Hat

Pointy Medieval Hat
A medieval fancy dress costume showing the late 14th century French fashion of the Hennin or steeple headdress worn with a veil. Date: 1930s

Background imageDamsel Collection: Bonfire Society float, East Dean, East Sussex

Bonfire Society float, East Dean, East Sussex
Bonfire Society float on the recreation ground in East Dean, East Sussex, with carthorses Diamond and Damsel. Date: circa 1960

Background imageDamsel Collection: Damsel in distress

Damsel in distress Date: 1919

Background imageDamsel Collection: Demon King repelled by knight

Demon King repelled by knight
An armed knight protects his beloved from the evil clutches of the Demon King. Date: circa 1820

Background imageDamsel Collection: Damselfly

Damselfly
Specimen held in the Natural History Museum Paleontology Department. This specimen is 34 million years old, and was found in Florissant, Colorado. This species is now extinct

Background imageDamsel Collection: Sapphire damsel, Pomacentrus pavo, and harlequin

Sapphire damsel, Pomacentrus pavo, and harlequin sweetlips, Plectorhinchus chaetodonoides.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 1816-1830

Background imageDamsel Collection: If by Frederick Sandys

If by Frederick Sandys
Picture of a distraught Victorian damsel against a backdrop of white cliffs, entitled " If", by Frederick Sandys to illustrate Christina Rossettis poem The Argosy 1866 Date: 1925

Background imageDamsel Collection: Demoiselle and crane designs

Demoiselle and crane designs
Drawing 27 Vol 2 by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1876. (Two separate negatives)

Background imageDamsel Collection: Chromis chromis, damselfish

Chromis chromis, damselfish
Ff. 29b Vol 2. Watercolour painting by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage to explore the southern continent 1768-1771

Background imageDamsel Collection: Abudefduf sexfasciatus, scissortail sergeant

Abudefduf sexfasciatus, scissortail sergeant
Ff. 31b Vol 2. Watercolour painting by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cook's first voyage to explore the southern continent 1768-1771

Background imageDamsel Collection: LS Plate 113 from the John Reeves Collection

LS Plate 113 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Background imageDamsel Collection: Calopteryx splendens, banded demoiselle

Calopteryx splendens, banded demoiselle. Illustration taken from Moses Harris, An Exposition of English Insects, 1776-1780

Background imageDamsel Collection: Damselfly wings in amber

Damselfly wings in amber
A pair of overlapping Damsel fly wings preserved in Baltic amber. Dating from the Upper Eocene

Background imageDamsel Collection: Coenagrion puella, azure damselfly

Coenagrion puella, azure damselfly
Azure dameselflies (Coenagrion puella) are often seen in the Wildlife Garden at the Natural History Museum, London. May 2003

Background imageDamsel Collection: Southern Damselfly

Southern Damselfly from the collections at the Natural History Museum

Background imageDamsel Collection: Pyrrhosoma nymphula, large red damselfly

Pyrrhosoma nymphula, large red damselfly
A close-up of a large red damselfly perched on a leaf. This species of damselfly is among the first to be seen each Spring

Background imageDamsel Collection: By the Stream

By the Stream. From Once Upon a Time no. 135 (11 September 1971)

Background imageDamsel Collection: Balfour Rescues Erin

Balfour Rescues Erin
Balfour depicted as the modern Perseus rescuing the distressed Erin (as Andromeda) as she perishes on the rocks

Background imageDamsel Collection: Ww1 Cartoon / Usa Rescue

Ww1 Cartoon / Usa Rescue
America comes to the rescue of Justice and Liberty

Background imageDamsel Collection: Vizir who was Punished

Vizir who was Punished
Fish, fish, are you doing your duty ? - the mysterious damsel upsets the frying-pan in which the magic fish are about to be fried for the Sultans supper

Background imageDamsel Collection: Alftruda Kisses Hereward

Alftruda Kisses Hereward
HEREWARD THE WAKE Hereward slays a bear and recues Alftruda, who smothers him with kisses


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