Ibis Collection

Raphus solitarius, Reunion white dodo
Plate 25 from Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World (1907) by Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild

Ostrich and Ibis Zoo
Regents Park zoo, London Visitors admire ostrich, ibis, cassowary and other exotic birds

Mummified sacred ibis, partially unwrapped
The sacred ibis, as well as the baboon, was linked to Thoth, god of the moon and writing. He was often represented as a man with the head of an ibis

The Red Ibis
A fantasy postcard depicting a naked woman, lying on the ground, turned away from the viewer, reaching out toward and cluthing hold of, the leg of a giant red ibis

Various birds on a sheet of Victorian scraps. Date: circa 1890s

Relief depicting the god of wisdom, Toth and the god of the d
Relief depicting the god of wisdom, Toth (ibis-headed man) and the god of the dead, Anubis (jackal-headed man). Luxor Temple. Egypt

The Great Aviary at London Zoo
The Great Aviary (Goliath Heron, Heron, Crested Screamer, Sacred Ibis, African Wood Ibis) at London Zoo by Charles Howard

Chas Lauri and Amy Ewins, The Monkey and the Maiden
Chas Lauri and Amy Ewins as The Monkey and the Maiden Date: 1890s

Woman in black satin sheath dress, black silk hat. Fourreau de satin noir ouvert sur interieur de linon blanc plisse, chapeau en peau de soie noire avec garniture blanche

Scarlet ibis, Eudocimus ruber (Ibis rubra). Handcoloured steel engraving from Georg Friedrich Treitschkes Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches, Liepzig, 1842

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

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)

Glossy ibis, Plegadis falcinellus (Bay ibis, Tantalus falcinellus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare

Madagascan crested ibis and grey crowned crane (endangered)
Madagascan crested ibis, Lophotibis cristata (near threatened) and grey crowned crane, Balearica regulorum (endangered). Handcoloured engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies

Egyptian bas relief in terracotta from the Basilica of Saint Sabina, Rome. Copperplate engraving from Pietro Paolo Montagnani-Mirabilis Il Museo Capitolino (The Capitoline Museum), Rome, 1820

Hadada or hadeda ibis, Bostrychia hagedash? (White-headed curlew, Numenius leucocephalus.) Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds

Black-faced ibis, Theristicus melanopis (Tantalus melanops). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1824

Scarlet ibis, sacred ibis and candytuft
Scarlet ibis, Eudocimus ruber 2, African sacred ibis, Threskiornis aethiopicus 3, 4, and candytuft, Iberis sempervirens 1. iberide, ibis rouge, ibis sacre

Scarlet ibis and olive ibis
Scarlet ibis, Eudocimus ruber, and olive ibis, Bostrychia olivacea. Handcoloured lithograph from Th. Lejeunes Complete Works of Buffon, Oeuvres Completes de Buffon, Brussels, 1837

African sacred ibis and white ibis
African sacred ibis, Threskiornis aethiopicus, and white ibis, Eudocimus albus. Handcoloured lithograph from Th. Lejeunes Complete Works of Buffon, Oeuvres Completes de Buffon, Brussels, 1837

Egyptian mummies and coffins
Egyptian mummies: mummy in coffin 1, coffin cover 2, bird urn 3, bird urn without cover 4, mummy of an embalmed ibis 5, and plan of underground chambers in a pyramid

Minister fanning sacred flame with flabellum
Festival of Isis, with minister fanning the sacred flame with flabellum and second minister with sword or scepter. Devotees playing sistrum, horns and drums

Festival of Isis, with devotees praying and making offerings, playing sistrum, horns and drums, and sacred ibis. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum

Unclean Land Birds- Judaism
Engraving of unclean (non - kosher) land birds. The concept of impure or unclean animals, plays a prominent role in Jewish law that specifies which foods are allowed (kosher)

Curtis British Entomology Plate 26
Diptera: Atherix ibis (Dissimilar Snipe Fly) [Plant: Anthemis cotula (Stinking Chamomile)] Date: 1824-39

VENEZUELA / ORINOCO 1894
Orinoco river: with pink flamingoes and lush vegetation Date: 1894

Henry Farman, 1874-1958, left, and Ernest Archdeacon in?
Henry Farman, 1874-1958, left, and Ernest Archdeacon in the Voisin-Farman Ibis on 30 May 1908 at Ghent, Belgium. A flight of 1, 242m was made with Archdeacon as passenger. Date: 1908

Henry Farman, 1874-1958, alongside the Voisin-Farman Ibis
Henry Farman, 1874-1958, right, alongside the Voisin-Farman Ibis of 1908. Date: 1908

Henry Farman, 1874-1958 in the Voisin-Farman Ibis in May 1908. Date: 1908

Egypt. Thoth and Anubis Gods
Egypt. Temple of Luxor. Relief depicting gods Thoth and Anubis. Thebes

Relief depicting the god Thoth. Ramesseum. Egypt
Relief depicting the god Thoth as ibis-headed. Ramesseum. 13th century. Nineteen dynasty. New Kingdom. Necropolis of Thebes. Valley of the kings. Egypt

Scarlet ibis, Eudocimus ruber.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Threskiornis aethiopicus, sacred ibis skeleton
Plate 52 from a paper published by Georges Cuvier in 1804

Egyptian Art. Temple of Kom Ombo. Toth and Horus give sacred
Egyptian Art. Temple of Kom Ombo. Ptolemaic Dynasty. 2nd century B.C. Dedicated to the crocodile god Sobek and falcon god Haroeris. Purification

Egyptian Art. Karnak. Relief with an Ibis
Egyptian Art. The Karnak Temple Complex. Relief with an ibis. 19th Dynasty. New Kingdom. Egypt

Egyptian art. Small Temple or Temple of Hathor. Inside view. 19th Dynasty. New Kingdom. Abu Simbel. Egypt

Egyptian Art. The Metternich Stela. 30th Dynasty. Late Empir
Egyptian Art. The Metternich Stela. Dated between 360 and 342 BC (reign of Nectanebo II). 30th Dynasty. Late Empire. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States

Egyptian Art. Cornice Block with relief showing the Baptism of Pharaoh Roman Period. 41- 68 A.D. Sandstone. 1st Cataract, Philae, Temple of Harendotes. Egypt. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York

Relief depicting gods Horus and Thoth blessing a Ptolemaic pharaoh. Temple of Horus. Edfu. Egypt

Ptolemaic temple of Hathor and Maat. Polychrome reliefs that decorate the interior depicting gods Thoth, Horus the Younger and Ammit. Deir el-Medina. Egypt

Relief depicting a Pharaoh Ramses II with different gods. Ramesseum. 13th century. Nineteen dynasty. New Kingdom. Necropolis of Thebes. Valley of the kings. Egypt

Bostrychia olivacea, Olive Ibis
Watercolour by Henrik Gronveld, c. 1910 Date: circa 1910

Roseate spoonbill, Platalea ajaja, and yellow-billed
Great tinamou, Tinamus major (near threatened), and western capercaillie, Tetrao urogallus.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science

African sacred ibis, Threskiornis aethiopicus, and Eurasian curlew, Numenius arquata.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science

Geronticus balcanicus, ancestral form of the Northern Bald Ibis, Hermit Ibis, Geronticus eremita.. Colour printed (chromolithograph)

Cattle Egrets (Bubulcus ibis). Ruaha National Park, Tanzania, Africa

Water Buffalo - surrounded by Cattle Egrets (Bubulcus ibis), feeding around the buffalo (Bubalus bubalis). Bohol, Philippines. February

Various birds: a snipe, a pelican with a fish in its beak, an ibis before the pyramids, a penguin, a stormy petrel, and a swan

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