Frog Collection

Dragonflies
The Pond Patrol. Various types of dragonfly. From the Look and Learn Eighth Book of the Wonders of Nature (1974)

Frog Couple & Pet Snail
A well-dressed frog couple take their pet snail for a walk

Britains frogmen divers by G. H. Davis
Introducing Britains frog-men: diving wreckers who blasted open a path to the Normandy beaches. These underwater commandos worked off the D-Day beaches

Frog Prince & Princess
The princess discovers a frog at her feet: curiously, he too is wearing a crown

Four frogs ice skating on a Christmas card
Four frogs ice skating hand in hand on a Christmas card, with comic verse below. circa 1890s

Frog Prince (Anderson)
DER FROSCHKONIG The Princess promises friendship to the Frog if he will retrieve her beloved golden ball which has fallen into his pond

The Frog and the Rat. circa 1900

Frog in human clothing on a French postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Rhacophorus, Tree frog
Tree Frog from Sarawak. Drawing of a tree frog by Alfred Russel Wallace - hand coloured. Drawn looking down onto the back of the frog spread out showing webbed feet

Brazilian horned frog, Ceratophrys aurita, male and female (Ceratophrys varia). Handcoloured lithograph from Georg Friedrich Treitschkes Gallery of Natural History

Two frogs with insect on a greetings card
Two frogs with an insect on a greetings card -- Happy be thy dreams. Date: circa 1890s

Alice in Wonderland, Alice and the pack of cards, as the courtroom scene disintegrates at the end of the story. Date: early 20th century

Frog celebrating the arrival of 1907 by firing a cannon
A wonderfully odd German New Years card, welcoming in the arrival of 1907. The illustration rather bizarrely depicts a frog (holding a lucky four-leafed clover)

Ciconia ciconia, European white stork
Plate 30 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Frog with elves

Mark Twain / Riding Frog
MARK TWAIN American writer Born : Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain leaps over a five bar gate on the back of a frog

Unicorn & Reptiles
A unicorn, with assorted reptiles, and a Latin motto: " Not with might, but with virtue"

Frog in the Middle Game
Children playing Frog in the Middle - they form a ring around one child

Two Scottish frogs on a New Year card
Two Scottish frogs in tartan on a New Year card in the shape of a tankard with two handles. Date: circa 1890s

KEXY, FAIRY FROG FRIEND
Kexy, friend of fairies Date: late 19th century

Frogs, toads and tadpoles. European tree frog, Hyla arborea, rattle-voiced tree frog, Auletris crepitans, edible frog, Rana esculenta, shrinking frog, Pseudis paradoxa, Surinam horned frog

Frog Scale Model Aeroplanes Advertisement
An advertisement for Lines Brothers Ltd, promoting Frog scale model aeroplanes, based on those used during WW2. The image shows a little boy's hand holding one such fighter plane over a

Fairy and Frogs, by Hilda T Miller - Up and down, up and down, I will lead them up and down (A Midsummer Night's Dream) Date: circa 1930s

Victorian scrap, heron, frog, snail and beetle (and another bird in the water) Date: late 19th century

Stool Leap Frog, Henry cartoon by Carl Anderson Date: 1936

Music cover, The Toy Town Parade, words by Ray Morelle, music by Horatio Nicholls Date: 1927

Alice, Where Art Thou, Christmas card
Alice, Where Art Thou, comic interpretation of a popular song on a Christmas card, with a frog finding his lost love, who is now an angel frog with wings up in the clouds. (3 of 3) Date: circa 1890s

GALVANI AND FROG
He discovers the existence of animal electricity in an experiment on a recently dead frog Date: 20 September 1786

Hop Frog
HOP-FROG The miserable end of the King & his courtiers. Date: First published: 1850

Squirrels on stepping stones and frog or toad by Rene Cloke

Good Morning miss chick - Frog and chick by Freda Rose

Common Frog and Common Toad by David Parry

Tiger crab and frog crab
Tiger crab, Orithyia sinica 1, and frog crab, Notopus dorsipes 2. Oritia mammillare, Ranina dorsipede. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle

Blacksmith tree frog, Hypsiboas faber
Blacksmith tree frog, blacksmith treefrog or smith frog, Hypsiboas faber or Boana faber (Rana gaimardii, Hyla gaimardii. Ranocchiella di Gaimard)

Portuguese man o war, Physalia physalis (Fisalia pelagica). Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Green frog, Pelophylax kl. esculentus
Green frog or edible frog, Pelophylax kl. esculentus. Ranocchio comune. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Georg Potschner in suit of armor with his sons, 1477
Georg Potschner in suit of armor with his sons, Caspar and Walthauser, 1477. From the Potschner altar in Saint Peters Church, Munich

How do yo do? - a frog greets a rather startled bird
How do yo do? - a frog greets a rather startled colourful small bird on the branch of a fuschia. Date: 1932

Cartoon, Tuck in Yer Twopenny! (Disraeli and Tax)
Cartoon, Tuck in Yer Twopenny! A satirical comment on Disraeli as Chancellor of the Exchequer, raising of income tax by two pennies in the pound

Dust Jacket for A Treasury of Flower Stories by Inez N. McFee. Florence Mary Anderson / Molly MacArthur (1893-1972) had two distinct styles of illustration

Asian giant toad, Bufo asper (Phrynoidis asper). After an illustration by Sandler. Handcoloured lithograph from Georg Friedrich Treitschkes Gallery of Natural History

Sporting brooches mounted in diamonds: pug dog, frog, wheel, polo pony, locust, etc. Chromolithograph from Edwin Streeters Gems Catalog, Bond Street, London, circa 1895

Game of frog in the middle, 14th century
Women playing frog in the middle, where the seated girl is pulled and buffeted by her companions until she can catch one, 14th century

Games of the 14th century
Women playing hot-cockles, women playing frog in the middle, and the parade of a winner of a cock-throwing game. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports

Indian burrowing frog and cape rain frog
Indian burrowing frog (Sphaerotheca breviceps (short-headed toad, Rana breviceps) and cape rain frog or giant rain frog, Breviceps gibbosus (le Bossu of la Cepede, Rana gibbosa)

Surinam horned frog, Ceratophrys cornuta
Surinam or Amazonian horned frog, Ceratophrys cornuta (Horned toad, Rana cornuta). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Hill after an illustration by George Shaw from his General Zoology, Amphibia

Veined tree frog, Trachycephalus venulosus
Veined tree frog or common milk frog, Trachycephalus venulosus (Merian frog, Rana meriana). With tadpoles and immature frog

European tree frog, Hyla arborea (tree frog, Rana arborea). Shown hanging from a rose bush, male inflating its throat, adhesive abdomen, tadpole and frogspawn

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