Duck Collection (page 6)

Duck, frog and egg on a comic card
The mother duck attacks the frog with her egg in its mouth -- A Fowl Blow. (3 of 5) Date: circa 1890s

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

Frog rescue on a Christmas and New Year card -- five frogs try to rescue their friend from the beak of a large duck. Date: circa 1890s

Frog and egg on a Christmas card
Frog and duck egg on a Christmas card -- Enjoyment. (3 of 4) Date: circa 1890s

Frog and egg on a New Year card
Frog and duck egg on a New Year card -- Jollification. (2 of 4) Date: circa 1890s

Frog and duckling on a Christmas card
Frog and newly hatched duckling on a Christmas card -- Consternation. (4 of 4) Date: circa 1890s

Snow scene with church and bells on a Christmas card with decorative branch and ivy leaf border -- Bray Church. circa 1890s

English Costume C16Th
Royal Costume. Men: flat caps, fur-lined gowns, doublets, heavily embroidered sleeves, duck-bill toed shoes. Woman: ruff split at the front under the chin. 16th century

Duck Hunt / Alken
DUCK The eccentric Shropshire Squire John Mytton (1796-1834) wearing a nightshirt crawls across the snow on his knees to bag a few wild ducks. Date: 1820s

Girl Weighs Herself
A girl in a towel stands on tiptoe in an attempt to weigh as little as possible on her bathroom weighing scales. Date: 1960s

Play / Ibsen / Wild Duck
Vildanden in Norwegian. Fru Hennings in her role as Hedrig Kobenhaun. Date: 1884

Hunting Birds / Decoy / 1890
A duck decoy, a netted funnel to lure wildfowl Date: 1890

Fancy ice moulds in pewter 1887
Page selection of birds, fish, fruit and vegtables for ice moulds. Date: 1887

Uninvited guests
A duck and her chicks looking for a feed while two young girls enjoy a bowl of cereal. Artist: Ethel Parkinson Date: 1912

Duck pulling a handcart
Christmas card. Duck pulling a handcart with family members and Christmas gifts. Artist: Florence Hardy Date: circa 1925

Romantic duck
Birthday card. A suitor with flowers knocks athis ladys front door. Artist: Florence Hardy Date: circa 1925

Shooting ducks, c. 1810
A man shooting ducks with a gun dog, c.1810 Date: C.1810

Woman in St Jamess Park with pigeons and ducks
Woman in St Jamess Park, London, with pigeons and ducks. Date: 1950s

Posada, The Little Duck with Teresa, Mexico
The Little Duck with Teresa, Mexico. circa 1900

It Pays to Advertise by Roi Cooper Megru & Walter Hackett
Promotional postcard for It Pays To Advertise by Roi Cooper Megru & Walter Hackett. First produced in England, at the Gaiety Theatre, Hastings, 21st January and Aldwych Theatre, 1st February 1924

Grosse Isle duck farm, feeding the ducklings Date: circa 1900

Gateway at Taormina, Sicily, Italy
A young child surrounded by ducks outside a gateway in Taormina, Sicily

Snow scene with cottage and ducks on a New Year card. circa 1890s

Snow scene with ducks and pond on a Christmas card
Snow scene with farm buildings and a pond on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Fairies in a boat drawn by swans on a greetings card
Five fairies in a boat made from a shell, drawn by swans on a greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Father Christmas apparition on a Christmas card
Father Christmas awful apparition on a Christmas card -- he appears to be terrorising three edible birds with strings of sausages and onions. Date: circa 1890s

Little boy feeding ducks, Cornwall. circa 1970s

Duck and ducklings on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Ducks and a frog on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, Chancellor Bethmann and his work, WW1
Cartoon, Chancellor Bethmann and his work, showing the German Chancellor, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, replacing the German eagle with a duck (canard, an idiom for a hoax or rumour). Date: 1916

Cartoon, A false rumour, WW1
Cartoon, A false rumour from the Western Front. Four market women talk about cannibalism among the troops. Date: 1916

Cartoon, The tall story, WW1
Cartoon, The tall story. Showing a rumour circulating, from two men at the top of the Eiffel Tower down to two women at the foot of a staircase

Dendrocygna arcuata australia eggs
Eggs of wandering whistling duck, Dendrocygna arcuata, collected by John Gilbert in Australia, 4th March 1841. All five are type specimens. Date: 1841

Anas specularis, Bronze-winged duck
Watercolour, c.1928-1937? by Miss A. Ellen Prout (fl.1920s). Held in the Library and Archives

Anas jubata, Latham Collection Vol. 6, f. 1001
Anas jubata, Latham Collection Vol.6, f.1001

Auckland Island Teal (male) and Brown Teal
Auckland Island Teal, Anas aucklandica (male). Brown Teal or Pateke, Anas chlorotis. Artwork by JG Keulemans from Sir Walter Lawry Bullers A History of the Birds of New Zealand

New Zealand Merganser (young and adult)
New Zealand Merganser, Mergus australis (young and adult). Artwork by JG Keulemans from Sir Walter Lawry Bullers A History of the Birds of New Zealand, Vol.4 Plate 53 Date: 1888

Australasian Shoveler Kuruwhengi
Australasian Shoveler or Kuruwhengi, Anas rhynchotis. Artwork by JG Keulemans from Sir Walter Lawry Bullers A History of the Birds of New Zealand, Vol.3 Plate 45 Date: 1888

Aix sponsa, Wood duck
Watercolour by John Abbot, 1827 Date: 1827

Cartoon, German communique, WW1
Cartoon, German communique, a satirical comment on a German claim that their squadron has sunk a Russian torpedo boat with the loss of 15, 000 lives

Endpapers, Cecil Aldins Happy Family, Humpty and Dumpty
Endpaper design by Cecil Aldin, Cecil Aldins Happy Family, Humpty and Dumpty, Their Adventures, told by May Byron. Showing the animals from the full series, namely

Title page design by Cecil Aldin, Farm Babies, showing a white gosling and a yellow duckling. Date: 1909

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Ugly Duckling, in the Letter Book Series. Showing three yellow ducklings with their foster mother, an old white hen. Date: 1921

First page of a book by Cecil Aldin, Ugly Duckling, in the Letter Book Series. It is in Aldins own handwriting, with his home address at the top: The Kennels, Purley, near Reading. Date: 1921

Cover design by Cecil Aldin, Ugly Duckling, in the Letter Book Series. Showing a yellow duckling just emerged from the egg. Date: 1921

Title page design by Cecil Aldin, Ugly Duckling, in the Letter Book Series. Showing three yellow ducklings just emerged from the egg. Date: 1921

Duck drinking from a large cup
A duck drinking from a large cup at a fancy dress ball. Date: 1914

Master Quack the duck dressed as a ballerina
Master Quack the duck dressed as the Russian ballerina, Madame Pavlova, for the fancy dress ball. Date: 1914

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