Discovering Collection

Fossil trees in coal mine
Fossilised trees and plants found in a coal mine. Date: C.1870

Sverre & Birkebeiners
Sverre on discovering that he is the son of Sigurd II (Mund) goes to Norway to make his claim. He travels through Vermeland seeking help

Discovering Atlantis
Discovery of Atlantis and other Submerged Civilisations Date: Circa 1950

Leeuwenhoek & Microbe
ANTON VAN LEEUWENHOEK Dutch naturalist, depicted discovering the microbe

Scipio Africanus discovering military conspiracy
SECOND PUNIC WAR : Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, Roman general and statesman, surprises a military conspiracy

Wartime Short Story Illustration
An illustration for a wartime children's short story book, The Adventure Book For Girls. The image shows some wartime children discovering a mysterious buried sack. Date: circa 1940s

Oliver Cromwell discovering the letter of King Charles I at the Blue Boar, Holborn, London Date: 1647

English gentleman consulting a somniloquist, 18th century
English gentleman consulting a somniloquist in his chambers, 18th century. The sleeping fortune teller lies in a bed in a room decorated with crocodile skin, Egyptian figures and incense burners

Landowner discovering poachers netting partriduges on his land, 19th century. Mr. Jorrocks sees Benjamin wringing the neck of a partridge that Joshua Sneakington has handed him from a net

Fairy and child discover an Easter egg. 1930

Illustration, Frank Heartwell discovering the treasure. Date: 1842

Cortes, having landed on mainland, destroys his fleet
Hernan Cortes, having reached Mexico and discovering already a mutiny, decided to sink the ships to stop any more arising. Men in longboats surround ships, either sunk or sinking. Date: 1519

Children at play on a beach
1920s. Boy and girl discovering pirates buried treasure on an island. Illustration from Ladies Home Journal August 1922. Artist anon. Date: 1922

Paradise and the Peri - The Treasure from the watercolour
This illustration of a woman discovering a chest of treasure is based on Schumanns music and Thomas Moores poem Lalla Rookh. Date: Christmas Number 1923

Fw Herschel / Telescope
SIR FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL German-English astronomer discovering the planet Uranus in 1781, while his sister Caroline Lucretia takes notes

Science / Leeuwenhoek
ANTON VAN LEEUWENHOEK Dutch naturalist, depicted discovering the microbe Date: 1632 - 1723

De Long / Discover Relics
George De Long (USA), in his ship Jeanette, proved that the Arctic Sea ice is moved by ocean currents. Discovering relics of an 1847 expedition. Date: 1879 - 81

Finding Nemo. Saltburn by the Sea 1970s 1970s

Bonzo Discovers the Bonzosaurus Egg by George Studdy
Bonzo Discovers the Bonzosaurus Egg -- clearly an ancestor from prehistoric times! Date: 1924

Illustration to the story of Ali Baba
Design or illustration to the Arabian Nights story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, featuring a slim woman in eastern costume, discovering men hiding in jars

Puppies attaching the post - Ridways Tea Advertisement
" The Pick of the post". An advertising postcard for Ridgways Tea, showing a pack of young puppies making some tasty discoveries while the Postmans back is turned

Petroica australis, New Zealand robin
Ff. 148. Watercolour painting by George Forster (1773) annotated Turdus ochrotarsus and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Rhinocerotidae, rhinoceros
Mounted specimen of a rhinoceros on display in the Mammals Gallery within the Life Gallleries at the Natural Hisotry Museum, London

Baryonyx excavations
Team from the Natural History Museum, London at work on the excavation of the dinosaur Baryonyx walkeri at the Ockley brick pit in Surrey, England in June 1983

Spain. Second Republic (1931-1936). The Civil Guard discovering an arsenal of a revolutionary group

The first sight of the new world - Columbus discovering America. Print showing Columbus standing among crew aboard ship with distant view of land on the horizon. Date c1892 May 23

Thomas Hardy Drama Festival, Dorchester
At the Thomas Hardy Drama Festival in Dorchester, Dorset, this scene shows the Excisemen discovering the concealed barrels under an apple tree

John McDouall Stuart (1815-1866)
Engraving of John McDouall Stuart, the Australian explorer, pictured in 1863. Born in Fife, Scotland, Stuart made six expeditions to the Australian interior between 1855 and 1862

M. Pasteur in his laboratory in Paris
Louis Pasteur was born in 1822. He studied chemistry under Delafosse. Discovering the nature of fermentation, he went on to research his germ theory of disease

A close friend is better than a near relation
Couple having a secret tryst on a beach, while an elderly aunt or relative brandishes a parasol on discovering them together

The Perils of home Brew
When you brew your own beer at home there is no such thing as last orders, as this household is discovering

Asklepios Finds Betony
ASKLEPIOS, Greek demi-god of medicine, adopted by the Romans as AESCULAPIUS, depicted discovering the magical plant Betony

Policeman discovering sleeping waif on a doorstep
A policeman discovering a sleeping waif on a doorstep

Bewick English Setter
This is THE ENGLIGH SETTER whose sagacity in discovering the various kinds of game, and its caution in approaching them, are truly astonishing, so Bewick tells us

Death of Tippoo Sahib
Sir David Baird discovering the body of Tippoo Sahib after the capture of Seringapatam

Discovering the Potato
Spanish conquistadors in South America are introduced to the potato by the inhabitants of Peru and Chile

Tutankhamen Tomb
Discovering the sarcophagus in the burial chamber

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