Discovery Collection (page 6)

Sphere artist, Donald Macpherson at Luxor, 1924
Donald Macpherson, special artist for The Sphere, pictured at Luxor where he had been following the work in Tutankhamens tomb

The Discovery -- a middle-aged courting couple are spied upon in a garden. 18th century

Captain Scott. Part of Box 104 Boswell Collection. British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 190104

Portolan of Joan Martines (16th century). American west coas
Portolan of Spanish cartographer Joan Martines (16th century). Majorcan school. American west coast (Peru, Ecuador and Colombia). 1587 Messina, Sicily

Dome of Discovery - Festival of Britain - South Bank, London Date: 1951

Peru. Cusco. Founded by Francisco PIzarro. Engraving, 1850. Color

Presentation of Columbus to the Catholic Monarchs in Barcelo
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506). Genoese navigator. Presentation of Columbus to Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic Monarchs, in Barcelona

Christopher Columbus at La Rabida. Engraving. Colored
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506). Genoese navigator. Columbus at the Convent of La Rabida. Engraving after the painting by Felipe Manso in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1892. Colored

Portugal. Evora. Renaissance fountain (1556) in Largo das Portas de Moura

Columbus in Santa Fe camp. Engraving. Specht engraving after
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506). Genoese navigator. Columbus in Santa Fe camp. Engraving by Specht after a painting by Kollarz. The Illustrated Universe, 1880. Colored

Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803-1806). Pass the first strea
William Clark (1770-1838). American military and explorer. Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803-1806). Pass the first stream. Engraving by A. Sargent. The Illustrated Universe, 1881. Colored

La Santa Mar?=?a. Ship used by Columbus in this first voyage
La Santa Mar?=?a. Nao. Ship used by Christopher Columbus in this first voyage. Model: 1:50. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia

Remains of a sunken wooden ship. 13th century. Old Riga. Lat
Navigation. Middle Age. 13th century. Remains of a sunken wooden ship of 14.3 m in length. Made of oak and pine. Used for cabotaje trade by sea. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia

Conquest of Mexico. 1519. Anonimous. Table
Conquest of Mexico. Anonimous table. 1676-1700. Cortes greeted by the Cacique Gordo in Zempoala. Museum of America. Madrid. Spain

Spain. Barcelona. Movement of the plinth of the column to the monument of Christopher Columbus. Engraving by Llonch. The Illustration, 1887. Colored

Martin Alonso Pinzon (1441-1493). Spanish navigator and explorer. Statue by A. Leon Ortega, 1977. Baiona. Galicia. Spain

Encounter between two Worlds. Sculpture. Spain
Encounter between two Worlds. Monument by Magin Picallo, 1993. Baiona. Galicia. Spain

Nares, Sir George Strong (1831-1915). British naval officer and Arctic explorer. The crew of Discovery Alert cutting ice for the free navigation of the ship. Nineteenth-century colored engraving

Christopher Columbus (1451 -1506). Navigator, colonizer, and explorer. Colored engraving

Frog and egg on a comic card
A frog finds a duck egg -- Eggspectation. (1 of 5) Date: circa 1890s

Casimir Delavigne
CASIMIR DELAVIGNE French writer of a poem on the discovery of vaccine - and other subjects ranging from the Sicilian Vespers to Louis XI. Date: 1793 - 1843

Cooke / Wheatstone Telegr
The discovery of current by Volta in 1800 and the electro- magnet in 1824, led to the invention of the magnetic telegraph. This is Cooke and Wheatstones 5-needle machine. Date: 1837

Victoria Land Discovered
The discovery of Victoria Land by the Erebus and Terror in the course of James Rosss 1839-1843 Antarctic expedition Date: 1842

Discovery of Fire
The discovery of fire by Palaeolithic man Date: circa 30, 000 BC

Dioscorides receives a mandrake root from Euresis
Dioscorides(c. 40 90 AD), Greek naturalist, receives a mandrake root from Euresis, goddess of Discovery, and commissions an artist to make a drawing of it. Date: circa 80 AD

Discovery of relics of the Franklin polar expedition
Discovery of the cairn containing documents and relics of the Franklin polar expedition. Date: 1845

South Bank Exhibition - Festival of Britain, including views of the Skylon, Dome of Discovery Lion and the Unicorn Exhibition and part of the Power and Production display. Date: 1951

Festival of Britain site, London Date: 1951

Vombatus ursinus, common wombat
Plate 8 from a collection of 49 original watercolour drawings of animals by Ferdinand Lucas Bauer (1760-1826), from the H.M.S. Investigator expedition to Australia, 1801-1803

A new Wealden dragon - remains of an extinct animal
Remains of an extinct animal found in the Isle of Wight. Engraving from the Illustrated London News showing a selection of dinosaur bones discovered in the Isle of Wight by the Rev. W. Fox

Chronology of St Augustine, Florida, USA
Chronology of the historical city of St Augustine, Florida, USA, listing events dating back to the discovery of Florida by Ponce de Leon in 1513

Cartoon, Scientific Researches! New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! or, an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air, by James Gillray

WW1 - British Horse unmasks a German spy hidden in haystack
WW1 - Behind British lines in a farmstead, a horse from a British cavalry patrol snatched a mouthful of hay from a stack, revealing a German officer

Steam Yacht Discovery, River Dart, Devon
Steam Yacht Discovery, River Dart, near Dartmouth, Devon, England. Date: 1925

Railway Tunnel South Entrance, Merstham, Surrey
Railway Tunnel South Entrance, Merstham, near Redhill, Surrey, England. Captioned The Merstham Mystery after the discovery of the body of Mary Sophia Money in the tunnel in September 1905 Date: 1905

John Cabot receives charter from King Henry VII
John Cabot and his sons receive the charter from King Henry VII to sail in search of new lands. Date: 1496

Savages feel our muscle, Taiwan, 1890
Natives of the hill country of Bankimsing, Formosa(today Taiwan), explore the possessions of some English visitors that they encounter

The Terra Nova Expedition
On 1st June 1910, the Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, set sail from London for the Antarctic regions

Negro house, St. Thomas, West Indies
The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes and seems to have been the first expedition to carry an official photographer as well as an

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

Flights into the Future - the first men on the moon
Astronauts land on the moon for the first time and set about exploring and taking samples from the lunar landscape. A imaginary

Flights into the Future - space age exploration
A futuristic prediction of what it will be like when man finally lands on the moon - astronauts will find themselves in a strange world. Date: 1943

Locating true magnetic North Pole by G. H. Davis
The locating of the true magnetic North Pole: an RAF discovery. Illustrating the 17, 720-mile polar expedition of the British Lancaster Aries and her crew. Date: 1945

Ancient boat building by G. H. Davis
Boat building over 2500 years ago: Humber craft reconstructed. The skill of primitive man exemplified in a recent find of two carvel-built canoes. Date: 1946

Oh, Carnarvon! by George Studdy
Oh, Carnarvon! Bonzo discovers a treasure trove of Egyptian mummified cats. George Ernest Studdy (1878-1948), was the creator of Bonzo

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

An archaeologist sits next to the unearthed remains of a st
This is the first discovery of a pre-historic straight tusked elephant, which is larger than a mammoth. The discovery was made at Upnor, near Chatham in Kent. Date: 1916

Egyptian Inspiration
A photograph showing a 1920s model in an Ancient Egypt-inspired dress, decorated with hieroglyphics. The discovery of Tutankhamens tomb by Howard Carter in 1922

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