Fowl Collection

Pavo cristalus, peacock
Specimen on display in Gallery 40 at the Natural History Museum, London

Anas platyrhynchos, mallard
Plate 221 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Paradise Shelduck Putangitangi, Tadorna variegata (female and male). Artwork by JG Keulemans from Sir Walter Lawry Bullers A History of the Birds of New Zealand, Vol.3 Plate 44 Date: 1888

Inachis io, peacock butterfly
Plate 23 from Illustrations of British butterflies and their larvae, with the plants on which they feed, by Theo Johnson, 1892

Cygnus atratus, black swan
Watercolour 351 by the Port Jackson Painter from the Watling Collection

Corythosaurus
The Corythosaurus, meaning Corinthian helmet lizard, was a bipedal herbivorous dinosaur that lived during the Upper Cretaceous period, 76 to 74 million years ago

Aix galericulata, mandarin duck
Plate 69 from John Goulds The Birds of Asia, Vol. 7, (1850-83). Hand coloured lithograph

Winter Plumage by Vernon Ward
A group of waterfowl on a lake in a London park including a tufted duck, Mallard, Pintail and Sheldrake

Lords Cricket Ground as a Goose Farm, 1915
Photograph showing the pitch and pavilion of Lords Cricket Ground, during the grounds use as a farm for rearing geese in World War I

Crested Guinea Fowl
BLACK-COLLARED CRESTED GUINEA- FOWL guttera cristata

Mergus merganser, goosander
Plate 331 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Anser brachyrhynchus, pink-footed goose
Watercolour and ink by John Gould (c. 1865). An example of a prelliminary work by Gould in preparation for an illustration which would be published in one of his books

Alopochen aegyptiaca, Egyptian goose
Plate 5 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Callipepla californica, Californian quail
Plate 413 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

WW1 - Lords Cricket Ground used as a Goose Farm, 1915
Photograph showing the pitch of the Marylebone Cricket Ground (Lord s), during the grounds use as a farm for rearing geese in World War I

Inachis io, peacock butterfly
Plate 23 from Illustrations of British Butterflies and their Larvae (1892) by Theo Johnson. Cropped image of illustration

New Zealand Quail Koreke (male and female)
New Zealand Quail Koreke, Coturnix novaeseelandiae (male and female). Artwork by JG Keulemans from Sir Walter Lawry Bullers A History of the Birds of New Zealand, Vol.2 Plate 24 Date: 1888

Phasianus colchicus decollatus, common (Chinese ringless) ph
Plate 57 by Joseph Wolf from Daniel Giraud Elliots A Monograph of the Phasianid, or Family of the Pheasants, (1872)

White-faced black Spanish, cock and hen, Gallus gallus domesticus. Cups for chickens at Bristol 1872. Chromolithograph by Vincent Brooks Day & Son after an illustration by J.W

Mergellus albellus, smew
Plate 37 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Motacilla alba, white wagtail
Plate 2 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Advertisement for Meckumfat Sussex Ground Oats
Advertising poster for the fabulously named Meckumfat Sussex Ground Oats -...proved to be the best for making poultry plump !

Perdix perdix, grey partridge
Plate 13 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Oxyura jamaicensis, ruddy duck
Plate 343 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Guinea fowl and young. Artist: Thomas Bewick

A Malayan forest, with its characteristic birds
Plate 9 from Alfred Russel Wallaces The Geographical Distribution of Animals, (1876)

Bucephala clangula, common goldeneye
Plate 31 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Cygnus columbianus, tundra swan
Plate 10 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Inachis io Linneaus, peacock butterfly
Close up of wing of peacock butterfly from the family Nymphalida. Magnified wing detail from specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Anas undulata, yellow-billed duck
Ff. 72. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Anas xanthorynchus and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Anas erythrorhyncha, red-billed duck
Ff. 73. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Anas pyrrhoryncha and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Common Shelduck
Illustration of a Common Shelduck by Peter Pallou

The poultry of the world--Portraits of all known valuable breeds of fowls. Fifty-two types of identified chickens. Date c1868

Africa - Vulturine Guinea Fowl
Africa - vulturine guineafowl (Acryllium vulturinum). Date: circa 1970s

A peacock chosen king of the farm birds
A peacock displays his tail feathers in front of a barnyard of birds. A magpie asks how he will defend them from the eagle flying above. Peacock chosen king

Cock, hen, turkey, crested peahen, etc. Varieties of fowl from an 18th century drawing book

16th century French expedition. Florida. Timucua cooking
History of the United States of America. 16th century French expedition. Florida. The Timucua roast native fowl and marine animals, including alligators

Woman in white dress, pink fichu and corsage, pink bonnet-chapeau. Handcoloured lithograph by A

White Dorking fowl, cock and hen, Gallus gallus domesticus. Bred by Miss Fairhurst and first prize winner at Colchester 1873

Egyptian Cave Painting

Birds of Paradise and Guinea Fowl

Sami People - Early Photograph
The Sami people, (also known as Lapps, although this term is considered derogatory) are the indigenous people of northern Europe inhabiting Sapmi, which today encompasses parts of northern Sweden

Black frizzled fowl, cock and hen, Gallus gallus domesticus. Bred by J. W. Ludlow and third prize in any variety class at Oxford 1872

Sultan fowls, Gallus gallus domesticus. Chromolithograph by Vincent Brooks Day & Son after an illustration by J.W. Ludlow from Lewis Wrights The Illustrated Book of Poultry, Cassell, London, 1890

Engraving of the Cochin China Fowl kept by Queen Victoria at Windsor. Date: 1843

Jungle cock or Indian pheasant, Phasianus indicus

Bronzed cock of Sumatra, Gallus aeneus. Handcoloured lithograph from Georg Friedrich Treitschkes Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches, Liepzig, 1840

Black-tailed trogon and chestnut woodpecker
Black-tailed trogon or wood-louse fowl, Trogon melanurus, and chestnut or yellow woodpecker, Celeus elegans

Duperreys scrub fowl and dusky scrub fowl
Duperreys scrub fowl, Megapodius duperreyi, and dusky scrubfowl, Megapodius freycineti

Argusianus argus, great argus
Detail of a feather from a great argus (Argusianus argus) from the Natural History Museum at Tring

Her Majestys poultry house, Windsor 1843
Queen Victorias private Royal poultry house in Windsor, secluded on the boundaries of the Home Park, attached to Windsor Castle. Date: 1843

Eggs in bed hen
Boy with pet hen that laid eggs in his bed, Abergavenny, Wales. First published The Sunday Express Date: circa 1969

Russia Behind Serbia
The Power Behind. Austrian Imperial eagle: I don t quite like his attitude. Somebody must be backing him & indeed the Russian bear stands hidden behind the Serbian fowl. Date: 1914

Blue Duck Whio & New Zealand Scaup Papango
Blue Duck or Whio, Hymenolaimus malocohynchos, and New Zealand Scaup or Papango, Aythya novaeseelandiae

Chicken breeds, Gallus gallus domesticus.. Chicken breeds, Gallus gallus domesticus- German cock 1, hen 2, English cock 3, hen 4, tailless cock 5, hen 6, Polish hen 7, and bantam cock 8, hen 9

British soldiers with chicken house in trench, WW1
British soldiers with a chicken house in a trench on the Western Front in France during World War One. This enabled them to have fresh eggs every day. Date: circa 1916

Aix galericulata, Mandarin duck and other birds
Large Series plate 35, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Gallus gallus, red junglefowl
Plate 32, a watercolour by Joseph Wolf from Daniel G. Elliots A Monograph of the Phasianid, or Family of the Pheasants, (1872)

Pavo cristatus, Indian peafowl
Plate 3 by Joseph Wolf from Daniel Giraud Elliots A Monograph of the Phasianid, or Family of the Pheasants, (1872)

Late Victorian 1890s Greetings Card Food Pale
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New Year card in the shape of a jar of potted meat, open to reveal a hen sitting in straw. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Victoria Street, Lagos, Nigeria, West Africa
Victoria Street, with live fowl baskets, Lagos, Nigeria, West Africa. Date: circa 1910

French woman wearing bird feathered hats 1908
Photographs of a fashionable French model wearing a selection of cartwheel hats decorated with Guinea fowl feathers and floral arrangements. 1908

Auckland Island Teal (male) and Brown Teal
Auckland Island Teal, Anas aucklandica (male). Brown Teal or Pateke, Anas chlorotis

Meleagris gallopavo, wild turkey
Original oil painting on canvas by Robert Havell, (c. 1835), 128cm x 171cm

Polyplectron napoleonis, Palawan peacock-pheasant
Plate 9 by Joseph Wolf from Daniel Giraud Elliots A Monograph of the Phasianid, or Family of the Pheasants, (1872)

Argusianus argus grayi, great argus
Plate 12 by Joseph Wolf from Daniel Giraud Elliots A Monograph of the Phasianid, or Family of the Pheasants, (1872)

Syrmaticus reevesii, Reeves pheasant
Plate 61 by Joseph Wolf from Daniel Giraud Elliots A Monograph of the Phasianid, or Family of the Pheasants, (1872)

Anas discors, blue-winged teal
Plate 313 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

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Chicken farm, central London
An intensive egg farm overlooking Westminster Abbey. A unusual rooftop poultry farm, run by A.W thompson at 2 Great George Street, Westminster

From the trenches to poultry pen: Fortunes from Eggs
A page from Fortunes from Eggs, a promotional publication by the Karswood Company, makers of Karswood Poultry Spice

USA - Thanksgiving Day - Turkey thrilled by his fame, possibly to be cut short in a matter of hours!! Date: circa 1910s

Spain. Northern peasants. Colored engraving
Spain. Northern peasants. Engraving in The Spanish and American Illustration, 19th century. Colored

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

Peacock Displaying 1650
A peacock displaying (Pavo cristatus) Date: circa 1650

Agriocharis ocellata eggs
Eggs of Ocellated Turkey, Agriocharis ocellata, laid at the aviary at Knowsley Hall, Lancashire, from the Natural History Museum collections at Tring

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

Megapodius reinwardt tumulus eggs
Eggs of the orange-footed scrubfowl, Megapodius reinwardt tumulus, collected by John MacGillivray in Port Essington, Northern Territory, November 1844 Date: 1844

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

Numida meleagris, Helmeted Guineafowl, female
Skin of guineafowl collected by 19th Century naturalist Emin Pasha in Tingasi, Equatorial Africa. 17/8/1883. Original NHM label: Numida ptilorhyncha 1887.9.28.28. Date: 1887

Black swan, Latham Collection vol. 6, f. 971
Black swan, Latham Collection vol.6, f.971

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

Polynesian Megapode (young and adult)
Polynesian Megapode, Megapodius pritchardi (young and adult). Artwork by JG Keulemans from Sir Walter Lawry Bullers A History of the Birds of New Zealand, Vol.4 Plate 62 Date: 1888

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