Head Collection (page 7)

Mere Street, Diss, Norfolk
Mere Street, Diss, near Scole, Norfolk, England. Showing the Kings Head Date: 1908

Mezmerized women listening to Pan playing pipes
Front cover of Pan magazine, featuring the God Pan playing pan pipes to a mezmerized 1920s redhead women. Date: 1919

Redhead flapper, posed in the mouth of a mask of Pan
Front cover of Pan magazine, featuring a red haired flapper woman in stage costume or fancy dress, posed in the mouth of a mask of Pan. Date: 1920

Palaeanthropus of Palestine
A reconstruction drawing of Palaeanthropus of Palestine based on discoveries made in the Valley of the Caves at the foot of Mount Carmel during an archaeological expedition led by Dorothy Garrod Date

Chocolate box design, lady in carnival mask
Chocolate box design, featuring the head and shoulders of a smiling lady in a carnival mask. Date: 20th century

Fulgora laternaria, peanut head bug. How the peanut head bug got its name is self-evident. Its spectacular head is shaped like a peanut and, at six centimetres or so, is almost as long as its body

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

Motacilla flava thunbergi, yellow wagtail
Plate 4 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Python sebae, African rock python
Hand coloured lithograph from final volume of Erpetologie Generale ou Histoire Naturelle complcte des Reptiles (1854) by A.M.C. Dumeril, G. Bibron, and A. Dumeril

Loxodonta africana, African elephant
A close-up of an African elephant adult male bull, on display in the Mammal and Whale Gallery (number 24), at the Natural History Museum, London

Semioptera wallacei, standardwing
Plate 52, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from John Goulds The Birds of Australia, Supplementary volume, (1840-1848)

Sula capensis, Cape Gannet
Plate 2 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

The Graphic Christmas Number front cover 1932
Front cover of The Graphic Christmas Number for 1932 with an illustration of a lively medieval banquet, with a jester ushering an enormous boars head on a platter. Date: 1932

Dunce at School
A boy stands on a stool with a dunces cap on his head. Date: circa 1900

Starry Gazey Pie, Mousehole, Cornwall
A mouthwatering example of a Starry Gazey Pie, served up on Tom Bawcocks Eve (23 December) at Mousehole in Cornwall. The dish, with fish heads and tails sticking out of it, is unique to Mousehole

Guests of Countess Aynard de Chabrillan
A number of guests pose in their magnificent costumes inspired by the east. The central oval portrait is of the countess herself

Holmes clapped a pistol to his head and Martin slipped the handcuffs over his wrists

Athena / Minerva Bust
A colossal head of Minerva, an example of very early Greek sculpture. The goddess is shown in a heavily restored form with later additions of a helmet crest and owl motifs

George Bernard Shaw, writer
Cartoon of George Bernard Shaw, writer

The Kings Head Public House, Chigwell, Essex
The Kings Head Public House, Chigwell, near Grange Hill, Essex, England. Showing Horse & Cart Date: 1900s

La Petite Francaise by William Barribal
Beautiful portrait of a dark-haired French woman by William Barribal. 1917

Agkistrodon piscivorus, cottonmouth snake
Drawing 61 (Ewan 50) from the Botanical and zoological drawings (1756-1788) by William Bartram

Melanerpes erythrocephalus, red-headed woodpecker
Plate 20, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby

Plate 327 from The Gleanings of Natural History by George Ed
Plate 328, hand coloured copperplate etching from George Edwards The Gleanings of Natural History, Vol. 3 (1764). Annotated Brasilian saw-billed roller

Sitta sp. nuthatch
Plate 40 from a bound volume called Indian Birds Colouredd. Artrist probably Sheikh Zayn al-Din, possibly compiled by Lady Impey

Lynx sp. lynx
Stuffed specimen from the collection of the Natural History Museum at Tring, part of the Natural History Museum, London

Sea Wall at Bald Head Cliff, York, Maine. Date c1901

Anchor Head, Weston-super-Mare, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Matthew Alexander Henson, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, wearing fur hat and fur coat. Date c1910

Sporting Gal and her horse - Dumb Luck
Dumb Luck Sporting Gal and her horse bemoaning the lack of success in the previous race. Dobbin is still the lucky recipient of a chunk of finest Tate & Lyle... Date: circa 1910

Chinese Barber
In a Chinese barbershop, short back and sides is taken literally. circa 1911

Mardale Head, Lake District
Mardale Head, Cumbria Date: 1834

A Clever Bricky
This bricklayer has come up with a nifty way to carry his bricks. Date: late 1960s

Wales from England
A view looking across Wales from the Anchor Inn, at the head of the Clun Valley, in South West Shropshire. Date: 1930s

Picture No. 10514137
Safari in Kenya Date: circa 30s thirties 1930s

Scouts Hostel, Kandersteg. 21 August 1931

Robert Stephenson Smythe Baden-Powell fishing. 9 November 1926

Alice: croquet Match
The Croquet Match: The quarrelsome Queen shouts " Off with his head"... Date: First published: 1865

BORZOI / HEAD / 1910
A Borzoi bred by Madame la Comtesse Greffuhle. Date: 1910

Ludgershall, Wiltshire - Queens Head
The preaching cross in the centre of the village of Ludgershall in Wiltshire, opposite the Queens Head Inn

Fishmonger - Port of London
A fishmonger carrying boxes of fresh fish unloaded at the Port of London, close to Tower Bridge, visible in the distance

Turkish Beauty and Crescent Moon
Turkish beauty with flowers in her hair, merged into a backdrop of a misty crescent moon

Photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan during sance with " ectoplasm" wrapped around her head and the end tucked into her nostrils, May 1931

Banana seller - Island of Martinique
A wonderful postcard of a West Indian Banana seller from the Island of Martinique

Curtain Fire
A coy red-haired temptress hides her modesty behind a curtain

General Skrzynecki
Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki, leader of the November rising, at the head of his troops, acclaimed by the Polish populace

Girl / Posture
A little girl balances a book on her head to teach her good posture

James Brindley / Holl
JAMES BRINDLEY English canal engineer

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