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Advertisement for McVitie biscuits -- models posing as mother and two children (Jane Hancock, Merrill Colbrook and John Moulder Brown). 1959
A Group of Japanese men in matching costumes at a Festival Date: circa 1910s
Japanese Woman O-Koto-San and maid at suppertimeJapanese Woman O-Koto-San talks to her maid while partaking of supper. Date: circa 1905
Japan - Geisha Girls eating noodles Date: circa 1905
Four young Zulu children enjoy an early breakfast Date: circa 1903
Flower-lovers dine beneath wisteria blossoms - Tokyo, JapanFlower-lovers dine/lunch beneath wisteria blossoms - Tokyo, Japan Date: circa 1910s
China - Manchuria, during Japanese occupation - local Chinese people (dock workers?) eating and drinking at the harbour. Date: circa 1910
Tibetan Picnic Party Date: circa 1920s
Japan - Two young Children eating rice and drinking tea Date: circa 1906
Flying Terms Defined - Flier Education. A jolly cartoon dog demonstrates some flight terminology: Power Diving (attempt to grab a bone thwarted)
Little girl asking permission to start eating Date: circa 1911
Notre Dame Cathedral Gargoyle, Paris - Chimera. Date: circa 1920
Russian villagers having lunchRussian villagers take a break from hard work on the family farm and have their lunch, sitting outside in the grass close to their wooden cabin home. Date: circa 1901
Extended family eating Christmas Dinner. Three generations celebrate with turkey and all the trimmings which rationing would allow
Coment on Tariff Reform in regard to breadThe Tarriff Reform League (TRL) wanted to see the British Empire transformed into a single trading bloc, to compete with Germany and the United States
Girl ensuring her boy has enough to eat(translation) That what meekly: soup - a pie, bread to milk, the woman - to the man! A Girl ensuring her boy has enough to eat... Date: 1909
Eating Watermelons - Hamilton, BermudaA group of native Bermudians eating freshly cut Watermelons - Hamilton, Bermuda. Date: circa 1910s
Candle holder and mouse on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Design for Christmas cardDesign for a Christmas Card, showing frogs having a feast on a lily pond. Pen and wash with gouache border on heavy paper. Silver Studio. 1890-1891
Boys picnicking, 1948. The Natural History Museum, LondonThese boys appear to be on a school trip (incidentally breaking the rule of no eating in the public galleries), and would probably have visited the Childrens Centre
Alligator mississippiensis, American alligatorAlligator of St Johns. Drawing 22 (Ewan 49) from the Botanical and zoological drawings (1756-1788) by William Bartram. Pen and ink. Size: 235 x 366
Trichoglossus haematodus moluccanus, rainbow lorikeetWatercolour 125 by Thomas Watling from the Watling Collection titled Red-breasted or Blue-bellied Parrot, Goeril
Gavia artica, black-throated diverPlate 146, hand coloured copperplate etching from George Edwards The Natural History of Uncommon Birds, Vol. 3 (1750)
Sarracenia flava, yellow pitcher plant & Sarracenia purpureaNelumbo lutea, American lotus & Triodopsis albolabris, land snail & Cemophora coccinea, scarlet snake. Drawing 30 (Ewan 22) from the Botanical and zoological drawings (1756-1788) by William Bartram
Taxostoma rufum, brown thrasherPlate 28, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby
Garrulus glandarius, European jayAn European jay (Garrulus glandarius), taken in the U.K. Photographed by Frank Greenaway
Otus scops, Eurasian scops owlPlate 33 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 1 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Nycticebus coucang, slow lorisLS Plate 75 of the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China, 1774-1856. See also Image reference 24829
Nucifraga caryocatactes, Eurasian nutcrackerPlate 65 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Circus macrorus, pallid harrierPlate 27 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 1 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Volatinia jacarina, blue-black grassquitPlate 37 (1:37b) a watercolour by Sydney Parkinson from Sir Joseph Banks commission of natural history drawings from Captain James Cooks first voyage (Endeavour 1768-1771)
Corvus corone cornix, hooded crowPlate 59 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Le Sajou Brun, MalePlate 30 (170) Le Sajou Brun, Male. From Histoire Naturelle des Mammifcres, avec des figures originales, Vol. 1, 1819-42, by Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & Baron Georges L. C. Frederic D. Cuvier
Conuropsis caroliniensis, Carolina parakeetPlate 11, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby
Ichthyosaurus, Pterodactylus, PlesiosaurusFrontispiece The Age of Reptiles from Introduction to Geology by Thomas Wright, (1855). These marine and avian reptiles lived in Europe during the early Jurassic period about 200 million years ago
Artibeus watsoni, Thomas fruit-eating batThomas fruit-eating bat (Artibeus watsoni) photographed in Belize by Frank Greenaway
Cameraria ohridella, horse chestnut leafminer
Boulengerula taitanus, taita caecilian toothTooth of the young specialized for peeling mothers skin
Hesperornis regalis, cretaceous birdPainting by Maurice Wilson (c. 1950)
Carduelis carduelis, European goldfinchPlate 155 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)
Dromaeosaurus, Fuzzy RaptorAn animatronic model of the fuzzy raptor or dromaeosaurus created by Kokoro of Japan for the Natural History Museum. The fuzzy raptor was a small dinosaur covered in branched feathers
Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, satin bowerbirdPlate 11, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from John Goulds The Birds of Australia, Vol.4, (1840-1848)
Oryx dammah, scimitar-horned oryxA small herd of scimitar-horned oryx grazing on a grass field in captivity. Photographed by Frank Greenaway
Tanysiptera sylvia, buff-breasted paradise kingfisherPlate 50 from John Goulds The Birds of New Guinea, Vol. 4 (1875-88). Hand coloured lithograph
Coruvs ossifragus, fish crowPlate 146 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1831-34), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Hylocichla mustelina, wood thrushPlate 73 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Dacelo tyro, spangled kookaburraPlate 51 from John Goulds The Birds of Asia, Vol. 1, (1850-83). Hand coloured lithograph
Helmitheros vermivoru, worm-eating warblerPlate 34 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London