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Hydra Collection

Background imageHydra Collection: Hydra Star Map

Hydra Star Map
Hydra constellation, including an owl, a raven and a sextant

Background imageHydra Collection: Hydra and Sextant

Hydra and Sextant

Background imageHydra Collection: The Modern Hydra

The Modern Hydra
This illustration depicts a scene in which a young lady has forcefully placed her boot on the shoulder of an older gentleman-Lizard hybrid creature

Background imageHydra Collection: HMS Hornet, Acheron-class Destroyer

HMS Hornet, Acheron-class Destroyer
Royal Navy - HMS Hornet, an Acheron-class Destroyer that served during the First World War and was sold for breaking in 1921. She was the seventh Royal Navy ship to be named Hornet

Background imageHydra Collection: View of Hydra, Greece

View of Hydra, Greece - (also known as Ydra or Idra) - one of the Saronic Islands of Greece, located in the Aegean Sea between the Myrtoan Sea and the Argolic Gulf. Date: circa 1950s

Background imageHydra Collection: Ancient Etruscan figures of Apollo

Ancient Etruscan figures of Apollo. Mirror showing seated Apulu or Apollo with two other gods, and marble bas-relief showing Apollo flaying alive Marsyas. Apollo che scortica Marsia

Background imageHydra Collection: Greek and Campanian clay pottery

Greek and Campanian clay pottery: Greek amphora 1, two-handle cup or diota 2, wine jug or oenochoe 3, vase or lecythus 4, flask or guttus 5, and jug or hydra 6

Background imageHydra Collection: Earthworm, leech, polypes and tapeworms

Earthworm, leech, polypes and tapeworms
Earthworm, Lumbricus terrestris 1, medicinal leech, Hirudo medicinalis 2, polype species, Hydra vulgaris, 3, 4, 5, 6, pork tapeworm, Taenia solium 7, and unknown species of tapeworm

Background imageHydra Collection: Folklore - Hydra

Folklore - Hydra
Hydra suffering at the hands of Herakles

Background imageHydra Collection: Caricature of Sir William Harcourt, Liberal politician

Caricature of Sir William Harcourt, Liberal politician
Caricature of Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt (1827-1904), Liberal politician, at this time Home Secretary in Gladstones government

Background imageHydra Collection: Posada, The Temptation of Saint Anthony

Posada, The Temptation of Saint Anthony -- a satirical cartoon. Date: circa 1900s

Background imageHydra Collection: Green polype or Hydra

Green polype or Hydra.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1800

Background imageHydra Collection: Hydra sp

Hydra sp
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image showing the stinging tentacles and mouth of the coelenterate Hydra (x 36 on a standard 9cm wide print)

Background imageHydra Collection: Hydra

Hydra
Illustration of the Hydra, a Greek mythical beast that had seven serpent heads. Plate 82 from Thesaurus, Vol 3, by Albertus Seba, 1758

Background imageHydra Collection: Noctua, Corvus, Crater, Sextans Urani?, Hydra, Felis, Lupus

Noctua, Corvus, Crater, Sextans Urani?, Hydra, Felis, Lupus
Noctua, Corvus, Crater, Sextans Uraniae, Hydra, Felis, Lupus, Centaurus, Antlia Pneumatica, Argo Navis, and Pyxis Nautica

Background imageHydra Collection: Herakles Versus Hydra

Herakles Versus Hydra
He slays the Hydra of Lerna, one of his Twelve Labours

Background imageHydra Collection: Samuel Johnson / Davenport

Samuel Johnson / Davenport
DR SAMUEL JOHNSON English writer, lexicographer, critic and conversationalist

Background imageHydra Collection: Krishna & Kaliya

Krishna & Kaliya
Krishna defeats the 5 headed serpent Kaliya who had poisoned the Yamuna river. Kaliyas wives worship Krishna & plead for their husdand who is spared & sent away

Background imageHydra Collection: Hyginus / Hydra

Hyginus / Hydra
HYDRA a fearsome monster

Background imageHydra Collection: Herakles and the Hydra

Herakles and the Hydra
One of his Twelve Labours is to slay the Hydra of Lerna, a denizen of the swamps, each of whose nine heads, if severed, is replaced by two more : but he manages it

Background imageHydra Collection: Folklore / Hydra

Folklore / Hydra
Herakles must slay the Hydra of Nemea, whose nine heads are self- renewing : his nephew Iolaus has the answer - cauterise the necks as soon as severed

Background imageHydra Collection: Five Steam Warships

Five Steam Warships
Removed from the effective list: The last cruise of the coast-defence monitors (left to right) Hydra, Glatton, Cyclops, Gorgon and Hecate

Background imageHydra Collection: Herakles & Hydra 1920

Herakles & Hydra 1920
Herakles slays the Hydra of Lerna whose heads - originally numbering only nine - doubled when severed : the difficulty was resolved by his nephew

Background imageHydra Collection: Sea Serpent Hydra

Sea Serpent Hydra
The seven-headed HYDRA seen at Venezia (Venice) in 1530 Date: 1530

Background imageHydra Collection: Apocalypse, The Great Beast

Apocalypse, The Great Beast
Scene from the Apocalypse -- The Great Beast


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