Lip Collection (page 2)

Different approaches to personal slights
" You Engleeshe you do not fight ze duel. Vat d you do ven you air insult?" " Oh, we write to the newspaper." Date: 1895

Young lady cries after receiving a retort from her boyfriend
Taking a Hot Return - cricket analogy used on a humorous(ish?) postcard showing a girl upset after receiving a harsh retort from her beau. Date: 1908

Earl of Minto
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (1845-1914) - Governor-General of Canada (1898-1904) and Viceroy Governor-General of India (1905-1910)

Plate 109 by William Ellis
Plate 109 from a collection of watercolour sketches by William W. Ellis (?-1785) made on Captain James Cooks third voyage to explore the south (1776-1780)

Watercolour 50 from the Watling Collection
Watercolour 50 by by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

Polyprion oxygenios, hapuku
Ff. 74 Vol 2. Watercolour painting by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage to explore the southern continent 1768-1771

Plate106 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

LS Plate 183 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Balistoides conspicillum, clown triggerfish
LS Plate 178 from the John Reeves Collection. John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Plate 121 from the John Reeves Collection

LS Plate 187 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Plectorhynchus picus, Oriental sweetlips
Ff. 73 Vol 2. Unfinished watercolour painting by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage to explore the southern continent 1768-1771

Ff. 222 sketch by George Forster
Ff. 222. Pencil sketch by George Forster made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75). Annotated Pseudocaranx dentex

Plate 120 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Plate 108 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Lethrinus miniatus, sweetlips emperor
Ff. 200. Watercolour painting by George Forster made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Heniochus chryostomus, pennant bannerfish
Ff. 31a Vol 2. Watercolour painting by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage to explore the southern continent 1768-1771

Plate 115 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

LS Plate 121 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

LS Plate 111 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Plate 111 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Acanthurus nigricans, gold rim tang
Ff. 196. Watercolour painting by George Forster made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Calamus taurinus, Galapagos porgy
Fish labelled Chrysophrys taurina collected by Charles Darwin in the Galapagos Islands. From his Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle

Sphoeroides angusticeps, narrow headed puffer
Fish from the Galapagos Islands collected by Charles Darwin from his Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle

Anarhichas lupus, Atlantic catfish
A specimen of the Atlantic catfish (Anarhichas lupus). Technically a wolffish and not a catfish this deep-sea, bottom-dwelling fish can be found in temperate

Plate 29 from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand Bauer
Gaston Tissandier. Head-and-shoulders portrait of French balloonist, Gaston Tissandier. Date between 1880 and 1900

Plate 29a from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand Bauer
Plate 29A from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand Bauer. Mouth and teeth of fish annotated: Amoplocarpos inermis

Priacanthus tayenus, purple-spotted bigeye
Plate 133 from the John Reeves Collection. John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Pagrus auratus, red snapper
Drawing no 64 by George Raper, 1789

Stenotomus chrysops, scup
Hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby

Sebastes sp. rockfish
Hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby

Anthias anthias, blunt headed holy fish
Specimen collected on Captain James Cooks first voyage, 1768-1771 and labelled Perca imperator

Ancient Wrasse - Frontispiece from the Aquarium
Frontispiece from The Aquarium: an unveiling of the wonders of the deep sea by Philip Henry Gosse (1854). Annotated The Ancient Wrasse

African Lip Plates
Africans with lip plates (pelele), part of a circus, which was about to travel to London. Date: 1930s

Shibori, hairpin, and lip color bowl

Holmes & Mrs. St. Clair
THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP Holmes with Mrs. St. Clair. Date: First published: 1891

Neville St. Clair / 1891
THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP Neville St. Claire as a beggar. Date: First published: 1891

Britannia and Eve magazine, September 1935
Front cover illustration featuring a beautiful dark-haired 1930s woman with huge hazel eyes, wearing a light blue evening gown and clutching a pair of binoculars

Haida Woman
A Haida woman of Queen Charlotte Island, northwest America : note the lip-plug, an ornament supposed to be attractive

Africans with Pelele
Three Congo natives with lip plates (pelele), listening to a radio broadcast in West Africa

African Radio Broadcast
Congo natives with lip plates (pelele) making a radio broadcast in West Africa

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