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Freshwater Collection

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Silurus glanis, or Wels Catfish

Silurus glanis, or Wels Catfish, also known as Sheatfish and Sly Silurus, a freshwater and brackish water fish. Date: 1865

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Anguilla anguilla, or Dublin Eel

Anguilla anguilla, or Dublin Eel
Anguilla anguilla (Anguilla hibernica), or Dublin Eel, a freshwater eel. Date: 1865

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Barbel

Barbel by H.J. Oliver

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Gobio gobio, or Gudgeon

Gobio gobio, or Gudgeon, a freshwater fish. Date: 1865

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Fish leech and freshwater leeches

Fish leech and freshwater leeches: Branchiobdellida 1, Pontobdella spinosa 2, Whitmania laevis 3, Hirudo vittata 4, Piscicola geometra 5, Ichthyobdella geometra 5, Geobdella trochetii 6

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Black leech, horse leech, etc

Black leech, horse leech, etc
Common black leech, Hirudo verbana, var. nigra. 1, horse leech, Haemopis sanguisuga 2, Nile leech, Limnatis nilotica 3, medicinal leech, Hirudo medicinalis. 4

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Lido on the Sea of Galilee (Lake Tiberias), Israel

Lido on the Sea of Galilee (Lake Tiberias), Israel, with Mount Hermon in the far distance. Date: circa 1940s

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight

Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Highdown Cliffs, Freshwater, Isle of Wight

Highdown Cliffs, Freshwater, Isle of Wight - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Freshwater, Isle of Wight

Freshwater, Isle of Wight - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Four Peculiar properties of the Isle of Wight, Hampshire

Four Peculiar properties of the Isle of Wight, Hampshire
Four Peculiar Properties of the Isle of Wight, Hampshire. New-port (You cannot bottle) - Freshwater (you cannot drink) - Cowes (you cannot milk) - Needles (You cannot thread) Date: 1909

Background imageFreshwater Collection: A Catch of Arapaima Fish

A Catch of Arapaima Fish
A catch of arapaima fish. Native to the Amazon and Essequibo basins of South America, they are among the world's largest freshwater fish. Date: 1924

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Lockheed HC-130B Hercules 1341

Lockheed HC-130B Hercules 1341
United States Coast Guard - Lockheed HC-130B Hercules 1341 Clearwater (msn 282-3542, ex USAF 58-6973), taxiing through the freshwater spray rig at Clearwater Coast Guard Air Station

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Tennyson and nurse

Tennyson and nurse
Alfred lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892) the Poet Laureate walking with his nurse on Freshwater Downs in 1891, shortly before his death Date:

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight

Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight by W.W. Quatremain

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Tench

Tench by H.J. Oliver

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Salmon

Salmon by H.J. Oliver

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Roach

Roach by H.J. Oliver

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Pike

Pike by H.J. Oliver

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Perch Freshwater Fish Watercolour painting H

Perch Freshwater Fish Watercolour painting H
Perch, Freshwater, Fish, Watercolour, painting, H, Oliver, 12022447

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Grayling

Grayling by H.J. Oliver

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Eel

Eel by H.J. Oliver

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Common and Mirror Carp

Common and Mirror Carp by H.J. Oliver

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Chub and Stickleback

Chub and Stickleback by H.J. Oliver

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Brown Trout

Brown Trout by H.J. Oliver

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Bream

Bream by H.J. Oliver

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Giant Brontosaurs in a freshwater lake, Jurassic

Giant Brontosaurs in a freshwater lake, Jurassic
Reproduction of giant Brontosaurus genus dinosaurs in a freshwater lake, Jurassic. Colour print after an illustration by Hugo Wolff-Maage from Wilhelm Bolsches Das Leben der Urwelt, Prehistoric Life

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Map of the continents and seas in the Upper Jurassic era

Map of the continents and seas in the Upper Jurassic era. Atlantis, North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Indonesian Peninsula, Asia and Australia

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Yellow perch, Perca flavescens

Yellow perch, Perca flavescens (granulated perch, Perca granulata). Handcoloured steel engraving from Georg Friedrich Treitschkes Gallery of Natural History

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Freshwater barracuda and wolf fish

Freshwater barracuda and wolf fish
Red-tailed freshwater barracuda, dago fissee or dagoefisi, Acestrorhynchus falcatus, and wolf fish or anjumara, Hoplias aimara

Background imageFreshwater Collection: European freshwater fish

European freshwater fish
Lake trout, Salmo lacustris 1, whitefish, Coregonus wartmanni 2, lake char, Salvelinus umbla 3, maraena whitefish, Coregonus maraena 4, and whitefish, Coregonus albula 5

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Gudgeon, bleak, spirlin, minnow and Prussian carp

Gudgeon, bleak, spirlin, minnow and Prussian carp
Danube gudgeon, Gobio gobio 1, bleak, Alburnus alburnus 2, spirlin, Alburnoides bipunctatus 3, minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus 4, and Prussian carp, Carassius gibelio 5

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Perch

Perch. 1842

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Sharp-nosed eel, Anguilla anguilla

Sharp-nosed eel, Anguilla anguilla
Sharp-nosed eel, Anguilla Anguilla. Date: 1842

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight

Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight. circa 1880

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Alfred, Lord Tennysons House at Freshwater, Isle of Wight

Alfred, Lord Tennysons House at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England. Date: 1910

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Alburnus alburnus, or Common Bleak

Alburnus alburnus, or Common Bleak, a freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae family. Date: 1865

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Leuciscus leuciscus, or Common Dace

Leuciscus leuciscus, or Common Dace, a freshwater or brackish water fish of the Cyprinidae family. Described here as Graining. Date: 1865

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Synodontis maculipinna, catfish

Synodontis maculipinna, catfish
Synodontis is the most widely-distributed mochokid genus. This specimen was collected from the Rufigi River near Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania and arrived at the museum in 1922

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Woman in pink shawl, Lake Egirdir

Woman in pink shawl, Lake Egirdir
Woman wearing pink head scarf sits of a patterned green Turkish carpet at Kale beside the blue emptiness of Lake Egirdir, Turkey Date: circa 1995

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Anguilla anguilla, or Broad-Nosed Eel

Anguilla anguilla, or Broad-Nosed Eel
Anguilla anguilla (Anguilla latirostris), or Broad-Nosed Eel, a freshwater eel. Date: 1865

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Blicca bjoerkna, or Silver Bream

Blicca bjoerkna, or Silver Bream, also known as White Bream and Breamflat, a species of freshwater fish. Date: 1865

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Chelodina longicollis, eastern long-necked turtle

Chelodina longicollis, eastern long-necked turtle
Lithograph by Edward Lear of drawing by James de Carle Sowerby. Plate from Tortoises, Terrapins and Turtles, drawn from life (1872)

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Freshwater Bay

Freshwater Bay. Artwork by W. W. Quatremain. Isle of Wight recipe book

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Italy. Rome. Fountain of Neptune. Detail of Neptunes statue

Italy. Rome. Fountain of Neptune. Detail of Neptunes statue
Italy. Rome. Fountain of Neptune, 1574, designed by Giacomo della Porta (1532-1602). Detail of Neptune struggling with an octopus, by Antonio della Bitta (1807-?), 1878. Navona Square

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Shakespeare Rock, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA

Shakespeare Rock, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA
Shakespeare Rock, a popular climbing challenge at Glenbrook, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA. Lake Tahoe is a large freshwater lake on the state border between California and Nevada. Date: circa 1910

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Salmo salar, or Atlantic Salmon (male)

Salmo salar, or Atlantic Salmon (male), a freshwater and marine variety. Date: 1879

Background imageFreshwater Collection: Eurasian Ruffe and Millers Thumb

Eurasian Ruffe and Millers Thumb
Eurasian Ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernua, also known as Ruff, Jack Ruff, Ruffe and Pope), and Millers Thumb (Cottus gobio, also known as Freshwater Sculpin, European Bullhead)



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