Headed Collection

HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, 1845
Engraving showing HMS Erebus (left) and HMS Terror, pictured on the River Thames, 1845. In 1845 the British Admiralty sent two polar exploration ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror

Baphomet - Equilibrium of Opposites
Baphomet - associated with a " Sabbatic Goat" image drawn by Eliphas Levi (on which this illustration is based)

Shire Horses pull the plough
A team of two white shire horses pull a light plough across a field of recently cut corn. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Captain Francis Crozier of HMS Terror, 1845
Engraving of Captain Francis Crozier (1796-1848) of HMS Terror, pictured shortly before departing on the ill-fated Franklin Arctic expedition of 1845

Seagers Gin Advert
A red-headed woman in a fetching pink party dress gets into the party spirit by mixing some cocktails with Seagers Gin

Russian Imperial Eagle
The Russian Imperial two- headed eagle surrounded by heraldic devices of the provinces of Imperial Russia

Winged Assyrian Bull
Winged, human-headed bull, from the facade of the Palace of King Sargon II, Khorsabad, Late Assyrian Period, c.725 BC (gypsum)

Captain Sir John Franklin (1786-1847)
Engraving of Captain Sir John Franklin in his Royal Navy uniform, pictured shortly before departing on his ill-fated Arctic expedition of 1845

Bald Prima Donna 20C
A prima donna and her two bald-headed admirers

The Enterprise and Investigator surrounded by ice, Barro
Engraving showing the Enterprise and Investigator surrounded by pack ice in Barrows Straits, September 1849. These two ships were used by Sir James Clark Rosss Expedition of 1848-1849 to search

The End of Sir John Franklins Arctic Expedition, 1845
Engraving showing the end of Sir John Franklins ill-fated Arctic expedition of 1845, entitled They Forged the last link with their lives. This engraving was taken from a painting by W

The Odyssey / Scylla
Scylla, the six-headed monster who lived in a cave next to the deadly whirlpool Charybdis, attacks Odysseus men

Highest Mountains
The worlds highest mountains, headed by Kanchenjunga; it has subsequently been established that Mounts Everest and Godwin Austen are both higher

Five Monkeys
Five types of monkey: Ursine Howler, White-Headed Capuchin, Squirrel Monkey, Marikina or Lion Monkey, and Lemur

Continental Boat Express
The (rear of) the double-headed Continental Boat Express train at Folkestone, Kent, England, the Southern terminal for the short sea route to Boulogne and Calais, France

Hoffmann / Shock / Head / Pete
SHOCK HEADED PETER..." Never once has comb d his hair"

Red headed girl wearing a wide-brimmed hat
Portrait of a pretty red headed girl wearing a wide-brimmed hat. 1918

Startling Stories scifi magazine cover - Green-headed Aliens
THE THREE PLANETEERS, by Edmond Hamilton. Two green-headed aliens, fly a spacecraft whilst under fire from groups of humans with ray-guns Date: 1940

Suffragette Jack-in-the-Box Votes for Women
A suffragette Jack-in-the-Box with a bisque headed figure of a snarling woman. She has grey wiry hair which extends either side of a Tyrolean style hat with feather

Prionailurus planiceps, flat-headed cat
Felis planiceps. Plate from A Monograph of the Felidae, or Family of the Cats, 1833, by Daniel Giraud Elliot. One of 43 hand-coloured lithographs by Joseph Wolf (1820-1899) and Joseph Smit (1836-1929)

The Farce by William Barribal
A young red-headed woman seated in a box at the theatre, feigns interest in what her older male companion has to say while secretly enjoying a kiss on the hand from a young, handsome beau. Date: 1917

Psittacula cyanocephala, plum-headed parakeet
Plate 6, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Cerberus & Herakles
The last Labour of Herakles is to descend to the Underworld and capture the three-headed dog Cerberus; he does this, but returns the dog to Hades who needs him as a watchdog

Megalaima zeylanica, brown-headed barbet
Plate 28, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

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

Auricula Purpurea
Double headed Auricula Purpurea

Comparison of British & German skull shapes, WW1
Long-head versus short-head: Opposite types of humanity which are fighting for opposite ideals. A diagram to demonstrate the inherent differences in skull shapes between the British

Ancient Germanic gods and kings: Flins and Radgost
Ancient Germanic deities and kings: Flinna or Flins, god of death in Wendish mythology, idol of the Vandals 1, and Radagasto or Radgost with ax, bird crown and bull breastplate

Two-headed camel? Birqash Camel Market near Cairo, Egypt. This image is a genuine photograph and is NOT faked Date: 2010

Thank you letter from Winston Churchill, Prime Minister
Thank you letter from Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, headed 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, SW1 -- many of these were reproduced to look like an original handwritten letter

White Star Line, RMS Olympic and Titanic - framed poster
White Star Line, RMS Olympic and Titanic - extremely rare official White Star Line poster, circa 1910-1911. White Star Line agent's poster showing a commanding image of the ship at sea in a 3/4

RMS Titanic - letter and envelope from W T Stead
RMS Titanic - a one page typed letter, with envelope, from W T Stead to his friend and biographer Edith K Harper, on The Review of Reviews headed notepaper, dated 13 November 1891

The card that upset Ireland
This card headed Great Britain missed out Ireland which caused political uproar and was corrected and replaced from 1 October 1879. Brown printing on buff card

General Dynamics F-16D Fighting Falcon 89-2175
United States Air Force - General Dynamics F-16D Block 42H Fighting Falcon 89-2175 (msn 1C-338, base code LF'), of the 63rd Fighter Squadron, 56th Fighter Wing

Nunnery Quadrangle. MEXICO. YUCATN. Uxmal. Ruins of city founded in the 7th c. Classic Period. Puuc style. Palace complex consists of four buildings forming a quadrangle. Eastern building

Hungarian poster, Farewell to Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Hungarian poster, Farewell to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, written by Karl Kraus, translated by Szini Gyula. Showing a man in revolutionary red clothes

Rorqual Whale captured in the River Dart, Devon 1856
Pike-headed rorqual whale being attacked by a local cottager on the north shore of Millbay Creek, River Dart. The whale had beached itself when the tide fell

Announcement of the king's death
Announcement on Buckingham Palace headed paper of the death of Edward VII on May 6th, 1910, signed by the four doctors present at the time. Date: 1910

GEORGE WALLACE MELVILLE American naval officer and Arctic explorer with De Long, his party survived wreck and he headed rescue expedition which found De Long dead Date: 1841 - 1912

BOOK OF THE DEAD/10
1. Cat cuts off serpent head 2. Ani and his wife, Tutu, adoring the scarab-headed god Khepera on the Solar Bark 3. The god Atum in Solar Bark 4. Couchant lion on pedestal

BOOK OF THE DEAD/15
1. Priest rises above Ani 2. Ani makes offering to jackel-headed Anubis to illustrate giving his heart to the deceased

Cartoon, The Problem-Picture of 1921, showing the Triple Alliance of Railways, Mines and Transport as Cerberus, the three-headed dog. Date: 1921

Green heron, Butorides virescens, male 1, young 2. Chromolithograph after an ornithological illustration by John James Audubon from Benjamin Harry Warrens Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania, E.K

American crow and brown-headed cowbird
American crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos 1, and brown-headed cowbird, Molothrus ater, female 2, and male 3. Chromolithograph after an ornithological illustration by John James Audubon from Benjamin Harry

Red-headed woodpecker, Melanerpes erythrocephalus, male 1, female 2, young 3. Chromolithograph after an ornithological illustration by John James Audubon from Benjamin Harry Warrens Report

Belted kingfisher, Megaceryle alcyon, males 1, female 2. Chromolithograph after an ornithological illustration by John James Audubon from Benjamin Harry Warrens Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania

Head of the Guinea turaco, Tauraco persa buffoni. Senegal touraco, Corythaix senegalensis. Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William John Swainson from his Birds

Interior of the Heliopolis, Baalbek, Lebanon
View of the interior of the Heliopolis or Temple of Baalbek, Lebanon Beqaa Valley. Interno del Tempio di Balbec. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giovanni Antonio Sasso from Giulio Ferrarios

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