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Silent Vigil in the Misty Vale of Wan China, Donald Menni
Silent Vigil in the Misty Vale of Wan photogravure from the Grandeur of the Gorges China, illustrated by Donald Mennie, 1920 s

The Ross Arctic Expedition - the expeditions ships housed in for winter. Engraving showing the darkness at midwinter, 21 December 1848. Date: 1849

Treasure trove from the Dark Ages: pieces of Byzantine ornamental plate among the many magnificent objects that have been unearthed at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk

WW2 - Surfaced Enemy Submarine sees a Corvette on her track
WW2 - The Terror of the u-boat: by the white glare of a star shell and tracer bullets firing through a dark night, a surfaced enemy submarine sees a Corvette on her track 1942

House sparrow, Passer domesticus, and dark-eyed junco, Junco hyemalis. English sparrow, male 1, female 2, and snow-bird, male 3, female 4

Vesper sparrow, grasshopper sparrow and field sparrow
Vesper sparrow, Pooecetes gramineus 1, grasshopper sparrow, Ammodramus savannarum 2 and field sparrow, Spizella pusilla 3. Vesper sparrow, yellow-winged sparrow and field sparrow

Catocala pacta moth. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur, Erlangen, 1786

French red underwing and dark crimson underwing variety
French red underwing, Catocala elocata 1, 2, and dark crimson underwing variety, Catocala sponsa 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die

Dark crimson underwing, Catocala sponsa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur, Erlangen, 1786

Setina aurita, dew moth and Setina roscida
Setina aurita moth 1, 2, dew moth, Setina irrorella 3-5, and Setina roscida moth 6, 7. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge

Pale prominent, heart and club, and dark sword-grass
Pale prominent, Pterostoma palpina, heart and club, Agrotis clavis, and dark sword-grass, Agrotis ipsilon. Phalaena palpina, clavis, spinula

Leopard moth, Zeuzera pyrina. Phalaena aesculi. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock from Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur

Dark tussock, Dicallomera fascelina. Bombyx fascelina. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johan Georg Sturm from Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur

Pale tussock, Calliteara pudibunda. Phalaena pudibunda. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock from Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur

Grey dagger and dark dagger moths
Grey dagger, Acronicta psi 1-4, and dark dagger, Acronicta tridens 5-8. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen

Grey chi and sycamore moth
Grey chi, Antitype chi 1 and sycamore moth, Acronicta aceris 2-7. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach

A man and woman embrace under a hanged man. The widow of Ephesus and the sentinel canoodle under her husbands corpse hanging from a gibbet. The Ephesian matron. Le matrone d Ephise

Dark Brahma cockerel, Gallus gallus domesticus, Lady Gwydyrs Sultan, cup at Middleton 1871, winner at Crystal Palace, Birmingham, Bristol

Silver spangled Polish cock and hen, Gallus gallus domesticus, Henry Beldons pair, first prize at Crystal Palace 1871 and Dublin 1872

Dark Brahma pullet, Gallus gallus domesticus, Lewis Wrights Psyche, first prize at Birmingham 1871. Chromolithograph by Vincent Brooks Day & Son after an illustration by J.W

Italian Glamour - Bewitching woman with jewel headscarf
Italian Glamour - Bewitching woman with exotic jewel headscarf and dark make-up around her eyes Date: circa 1920s

A jolly mens drinking club - the table is well stocked with beer and glasses and everyone is very smartly-dressed in top hats ans suits, some with additonal badges of office ! Date: circa 1920

Familiar Faces, Brilliant Brunettes by Pat Charles
A sextet of well-known society women who happen to have brunette hair. Top left, model Hilary Charles, sister of the artist Pat Charles, top right Lady Pamela Smith, daughter of Lord Birkinhead

Woman in a green dress. 1926

Spanish boy
Dark haired Spanish boy with a red scarf under a broad-brimmed hat. Artist: Frances Brundage Date: 1903

Lady Kathleen Stanley by Madame Yevonde
Lady Kathleen Stanley, formerly Lady Kathleen Thynne, eldest daughter of the Marquess and Marchioness of Bath. She married Lieut.-Colonel, the Hon. Oliver Stanley. Date: 1923

Night watchman and bellman, London

Examination of underground railway tunnel after explosion
Examination by government officials of the underground railway tunnel between Charing Cross and Westminster after the explosion of a bomb in the tunnel on 30 October 1883. Date: October 1883

Train from Charing Cross to Westminster after explosion
Conducting the first train from Charing Cross to Westminster after the explosion of a bomb in the tunnel on 30 October 1883. Date: 1883

Music cover, The Dark Girl Dress d in Blue, sung by Kate Harley, and written and sung by Harry Clifton at the London Music Halls. With the International Exhibition of 1862 in the background. 1862

Cartoon, Miss Harriet Laurie, The Electric Star
Cartoon, Miss Harriet Laurie (singer and dancer), The Electric Star. 1885

Woman crossing road in the dark in white coat, Sept 1939
Female pedestrian crossing road in front of a car, using her white coat and a newspaper to be seen in the dark, as well as carrying a gas mask

Miss Renee Merandon du Plessis (1916 - 2007), later The Hon. Mrs Langton Iliffe. Responsible with for rescuing and restoring Basildon Park in Berkshire. 1938

A New Knight of the Road by Webster Murray
A motorcyclist with a woman riding pillion rides through the night as the ghost of a mounted highwayman looks on with surprise. Date: 1924

Silver Street Boys School fancy dress group
Silver Street Boys School advanced class fancy dress group, most of them with blacked-up faces and hands. Their names are: Harold Blanchard, Philip Wilson, Arthur Thorne, Ernest Trafford

Countess of Dudley, the New Vicereine of Ireland
Countess of Dudley (Rachel nee Gurney, wife of William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley), the New Vicereine of Ireland on the strength of her husbands appointment as Viceroy (Lord Lieutenant). 1902

Renee Russell, actress. 1939

Dark blue bearded bellflower, Campanula barbata cyanea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by G. Barclay after J.T. Hart from John Lindley and Robert Sweets Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery, G

Penstemon atropurpureus (Dark purple chelone, Chelone atropurpurea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by Edward Dalton Smith from Robert Sweets The British

Dark green fritillary, Argynnis aglaia (Charlotte butterfly, Papilio charlotta). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare

Dark mullein, Verbascum nigrum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smiths English Botany, London, 1792

Fritillary butterflies
Queen of Spain fritillary, Issoria lathonia 1, dark green fritillary, Argynnis aglaja 2 and silver-washed fritillary, Argynnis paphia 3

High brown fritillary, dark green fritillary
High brown fritillary, Fabriciana adippe, dark green fritillary, Argynnis aglaja, and Queen of Spain fritillary, Issoria lathonia

Everlasting pea and vetch species
Lord Ansons pea, Lathyrus magellanicus, large-flowered everlasting pea, Lathyrus grandiflorus, blue-flowered platystylis, Platystylis cyanea, hairy bitter vetch, Orobus hirsutus

Dark mullein, Verbascum nigrum, varieties. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Mullein, Verbascum album foemina, and dark mullein, Verbascum nigrum. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Macleays swallowtail, dark umber and chain-dotted geometer
Macleays swallowtail moth, Lyssa macleayi (underside) 1, dark umber, Philereme transversata 2, and grey chain-dotted geometer, Cingilia catenaria 3. Handcoloured lithograph from John O

Dark green forsythia, Forsythia viridissima. China. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Edwards Botanical Register

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