Guiana Collection

Insects of Surinam
Plate 4 from Dissertatio de Generatione et Metamorphosibus Insectorum Surinamensium (1726) by Maria Sybilla Merian (1647-1717) & Johanna Helena Herolt (1668-1773)

East Street, Georgetown, Guyana, South America
East Street, Georgetown, Guyana (then British Guiana), South America, with water and trees in the middle. Date: circa 1910

Map of British Empire showing international cable
Map of the British Empire (coloured red), showing the All-British international cable going round the world, enabling telegraphic communication. Date: circa 1902

Armored catfish species, Acanthicus hystrix. Porcupine acanthicus, Acanthicus histrix. Fort St. Joaquin in the distance. Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H

Four-eyed opossum and false vampire bat
Four-eyed opossum, Philander opossum, and false vampire bat, Vampyrum spectrum. (Marine oppossum of Terra Firma and Vampire or Spectre of Guiana.) Copperplate engraving by A

White-lipped peccary and collared peccary
White-lipped peccary, Tayassu pecari, and collared peccary, Pecari tajacu. Copperplate engraving after an original illustration by Captain John Gabriel Stedman from his Narrative of a Five Years

Wattled jacana and scarlet ibis
Wattled jacana, Jacana jacana, and red curlew or scarlet ibis, Eudocimus ruber. Copperplate engraving after an original illustration by Captain John Gabriel Stedman from his Narrative of a Five Years

Guiana white-tailed deer and brown brocket
Guiana white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus cariacou, and brown or grey brocket, Mazama nemorivaga. Copperplate engraving after an original illustration by Captain John Gabriel Stedman from his

Roseate spoonbill and American wood ibis
Roseate spoonbill, Platalea ajaja, and American wood ibis or wood stork, Mycteria americana (Spoonbill or shoveler and jabiru or crane of Guiana)

Guiana chestnut, Pachira insignis (Carolinea insignis). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke after Thomas Boys from Conrad Loddiges Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, 1825

Black-throated trogon, Trogon rufus, female (Rufous curucui, Trogon rufus). Copied from Martinets illustration of the Couroucou a queue rousse de Cayenne for Buffon

Head of a young antelope and wild civet of French Guiana. Le tete d un bouc bigarre, une civette sauvage a museau pointu. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration from nature by

Capybara, Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris (Hydrochaerus cabiai). Native of Guiana. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration from life by Col

Slopehead catfish, Ageneiosus inermis (Dawalla of the Arawaaks, Hypothalmus davalla). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H

Tiger sorubim, Pseudoplatystoma tigrinum (Striped platystoma, Platystoma tigrinum). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Schomburgks Fishes

Platynematichthys notatus catfish (Stripe-tailed pimelodus, Pimelodus notatus). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Schomburgks Fishes of

Flatwhiskered catfish, Pinirampus pirinampu (Black-spotted green pimelodus, Pimelodus insignis). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H

Blochs pim, Pimelodus blochii (Tiger pimelodus, Pimelodus arekaima). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Schomburgks Fishes of Guiana

Jaguar catfish, Liosomadoras oncinus (Marbled arius, Arius oncinus). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Schomburgks Fishes of Guiana

Vignette showing Native Americans fishing
Title page with vignette showing Native Americans fishing with bow and arrow, nets and clubs, on the Essequibo river. Steel engraving by W.H

Portrait of Robert Schomburgk, Victorian ichthyologist, zoologist and diplomat. Steel engraving by Freeman from Robert Schomburgks Fishes of Guiana

Spiny catfish or bacu, Acanthodoras cataphractus (Chestnut-bellied doras, Doras castaneo-ventris). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H

Steindachnerina binotata (Double-marked salmon carp, Prochilodus binotatus). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Schomburgks Fishes of

Bocachico or koulimata, Prochilodus rubrotaeniatus (Pale red-streaked salmon carp, Prochilodus rubro-taeniatus). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H

Wolf fish, Hoplias malabaricus
Wolf fish, tiger fish or trahira, Hoplias malabaricus (Haimura, Erythrinus macrodon). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H

Banded schizodon or boga lisa, Schizodon fasciatus. Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Schomburgks Fishes of Guiana

Payara, Hydrolycus armatus (Strong-toothed hydrocyon, Hydrocyon? armatus). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Schomburgks Fishes of Guiana

Cuviers pike-characin, Boulengerella cuvieri (Ocellated xiphostoma, Xiphostoma ocellatum). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H

Tetragonopterus chalceus (Schomburgks tetragonopterus, Tetragonopterus schomburgkii). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H

Pacu or pacupeba, Myleus pacu (Pacu of Guiana, Myletes pacu). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Schomburgks Fishes of Guiana

Spotted piranha, Serrasalmus marginatus (Red-bordered saw-bellied salmon, Serrasalmo emarginatus). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H

Red-eye piranha, Serrasalmus rhombeus. Black saw-bellied salmon, Serrasalmo niger. Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Schomburgks Fishes of

Pygopristis denticulata piranha (Spotted saw-bellied salmon, Serrasalmo punctatus). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Schomburgks Fishes

Piraya piranha or San Francisco piranha, Pygocentrus piraya (Piranha saw-bellied salmon, Serrasalmo piranha). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H

Hemiodus unimaculatus (Black-marked anodus, Anodus notatus). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Schomburgks Fishes of Guiana

Pink-tailed chalceus, Chalceus macrolepidotus. (Large-scaled chalceus.) Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Schomburgks Fishes of Guiana

South American trout 1 and halfline leporinus 2
South American trout, Brycon falcatus (thick-lipped chalceus, Chalceus labrosus) 1, and halfline leporinus, Leporinus nigrotaeniatus (black-striped chalceus, Chalceus nigro-taeniatus) 2

Silver arowana, Osteoglossum bicirrhosum (Arowana of Guiana, Osteoglossum arowana). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Schomburgks Fishes

Arapaima, Arapaima gigas (Gigantic sudis, Sudis gigas). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Schomburgks Fishes of Guiana

Red palulu or macawflower, Heliconia bihai, and fruit of the Phenakospermum guyannense palm tree. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens

Monkeys of Guiana, South America, by Humboldt
Monkeys of the river Orinoco, Guiana, South America, by Humboldt. Three-striped night monkey, Aotus trivirgatus 1, red-backed saki, Pithecia chiropotes 2, black-headed uakari

Wapisiana hunter, British Guiana, South America
Wapisiana (Wapishana, Wapixana) hunter shooting fish, British Guiana, South America (then part of the British Empire, now Guyana). 1922

Paramaribo, Suriname, Dutch Guiana, South America
Gravenstraat, with bank building, Paramaribo, capital of Suriname, Dutch Guiana, South America. Date: circa 1905

Estate Managers house, Guyana, South America
Estate Managers house (possibly on a sugar plantation), Guyana (then British Guiana), South America. Date: circa 1905

High Street, Georgetown, Guyana, South America
High Street, Georgetown, Guyana (then British Guiana), South America, with transport waiting for passengers on the right. Date: circa 1910

Native Indian family, Guyana, South America
Native Indian family, Guyana (then British Guiana), South America. Date: circa 1905

Tower Hotel, Georgetown, Guyana, South America
Tower Hotel, Georgetown, Guyana (then British Guiana), South America. Date: circa 1908

General view, Georgetown, Guyana, South America
General aerial view of Georgetown, Guyana (then British Guiana), South America, showing public buildings, including the parliament building in renaissance style, completed in 1834. Date: circa 1910

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