Magpie Collection

A selection of common British Moths Date: circa 1920s

Blue Bird (Bird Sirin) - Sergey Solomko. Date: circa 1903

Possession is nine points of the law by Louis Wain
Illustration by Louis Wain showing a cat occupying a cast-off saucepan or cooking pot during snowy weather. A selection of birds, including a magpie and a blue tit bemusedly face the cat

Magpie (Morris)
(Pica pica, or Pica Rustica)

Raven, Corvus corax, and magpie, Pica pica.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology, Paris, France, 1816-1830

The Duke of Edinburgh taking over HMS Magpie at Malta
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, being met by Lt.-Cmdr A. Harber (sp?) at the time he took over command of HMS Magpie at Valletta harbour in Malta. Date: 1950

Three Birds of Australia, Magpie, Butcherird and Kookaburra
Three Birds of Australia - The Magpie, Butcherbird and Kookaburra. Date: circa 1910s

Magpie Date: circa 1910s

Magpie Cottage Proposal, Woldsea
An architectural drawing suggesting the plans for Magpie Cottage to be erected at Woldsea, a garden village project to be built in Lincolnshire. The exterior shows an attractive flower garden

Advert for the London couture house of Dora Ainsworth, 1927
Advert for the London couture house of Dora Ainsworth at 40 South Molton Street, London, 1927 Date: 1927

Sketch of Magpie & Stump PH, Old Bailey, London. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Sketch of the pub. The back of the print (available on request) details

Photograph of Magpie & Stump PH, Old Bailey, London. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Right face on view of the pub

John Dory, magpie perch, silver fish and butterfly lobster
John Dory, Zeus faber, magpie perch, Cheilodactylus nigripes, migratory silver fish, and butterfly lobster, Ibacus peronii

Emu and young, Dromaius novaehollandiae
Emu and young chicks, Dromaius novaehollandiae. Lithograph after an illustration by Louisa Anne Meredith from her book Tasmanian Friends and Foes, Feathered, Furred and Finned, Marcus Ward, London

West Indian magpie shell, Cittarium pica (Magpie turbo, Turbo pica). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Azure-winged magpie, Cyanopica cyanus (Cyanean crow, Corvus cyaneus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Magpie goose and crested auklet
Magpie goose, Anseranas semipalmata, and crested auklet, Aethia cristatella. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rene Primevere Lessons Complements de Buffon, Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1838

Magpie goose, Anseranas semipalmata, and anatomical detail of its trachea. (Semipalmated duck, Anas semipalmatus.) Handcoloured copperplate drawn

Common magpie, Pica pica, and white-throated magpie-jay, Calocitta formosa, with egg. Pie commune et pie commandeur. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse after an illustration by Adolph Fries

Red-billed blue magpie, Urocissa erythrorhyncha (Red-billed jay, Pica erythrorynchos). Handcoloured engraving after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from Edward Griffiths The Animal Kingdom

Black-throated magpie-jay, Calocitta colliei (Bernets magpie, Pica bernettii). Handcoloured engraving after an illustration by H

Chinese poinciana, Delonix regia
La Poinciniene de la Chine. Chinese poinciana, Delonix regia, and Chinese cuckoo or red-billed blue magpie, Urocissa erythrorhyncha

Magpie moth, Abraxas grossulariata, on a redcurrant branch, Ribes rubrum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and etched by Jacob l Admiral in Naauwkeurige Waarneemingen omtrent de veranderingen

Magpie. Date: 1957

Various bird species
A selection of birds, drawn by A. F. Lydon for the Boys Own Paper. Birds depicted include: 1. Blackcap; 2. Nightingale; 3. Goldfinch; 4. Siskin; 5. Linnet; 6. Redpole; 7. Skylark; 8. Greenfinch; 9

Crew members, HMS Magpie, boom defence vessel
Group photo of crew members on HMS Magpie, a screw gunboat launched in 1889, used as a boom defence vessel from 1902, then reverting to a gunboat in 1915. Date: circa 1908

Curtis British Entomology Plate 515
Lepidoptera: Abraxas ulmata = Abraxas sylvata (Scarce or Clouded Magpie) [Plant: ?Ulmus campestris? agg. (Ulmus campestris?, Common Elm)] Date: 1824-39

THIEVING MAGPIE - 1
The famous thieving magpie of Palaiseau, near Versailles, France, carries a spoon and fork in his bill to his nest. Date: circa 1750

Mr Harry Bevan, of Staffordshire known as Mr Magpie
Mr Harry Bevan, of Staffordshire, England. Known as Mr Magpie, he never threw away any domestic items and filled his home and outhouses with everything from teapots to sewing machines

Pigeons - A Portrait of Three Magies, German Toy Breed
Three Magpies standing together in an outdoor scenery, and a church pictured in the background. The illustrated magpies are of the German variety and a breed of German Toy pigeon

British Moths and Caterpillars - Various
British Moths - Various, including: Kentish Glory Moth, Wood Tiger Moth, Spurge Hawk Moth, Magpie Moth, Puss Moth and caterpillar and Grey Dagger Moth and caterpillar. Date: circa 1910s

The Magpie Magazine
An Advertisement for the holiday magazine The Magpie published on 5th July 1923 depicting a glamorous woman in an elaborate black and white dress on a tree branch accompanied by two magpies

A mapgie pet as a watchman 1919

Panache! by Lewis Baumer -- a fashionable young woman in a striking costume. circa 1920s

Martha Saunders (104+)
MARTHA SAUNDERS Resident of Magpie Alley, Grays inn Road, London who was 104 years old when this fine mezzotint was made. Date: 1671 - 1775+

Dog, cats and bird on a Christmas card, bys T Dadd. One of the cats is fighting with the bird over some scraps of food on a plate. Date: circa 1890s

Endpaper design by Cecil Aldin, Field Babies, showing Pippin the puppy and some of the baby animals he meets on his adventure: a squirrel, a magpie, a hedgehog, an owl, a lamb, rabbits and foxes

Red-billed blue magpie, Urocissa erythrorhyncha.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Violaceous crow, Corvus violaceus, and magpie tanager, Cissopis leveriana.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology, Paris

Magpie, Corvus pica, Pica pica.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821

Magpie, Pica pica.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his own Natural History of British Birds, London, 1794-1819

Goldie Fraser with tame Magpie Sammy at Cosawes Caravan Park in 1950 s. Date: 1950s

Urocissa erythrorhyncha, red-billed blue magpie
Large Series plate 8, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Calocitta colliei, black-throated magpie-jay
Plate 96 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Copsychus saularis, Oriental magpie-robin
Plate 27, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)

Gymnorhina tibicen, Australian magpie
Watercolour Large Series 13 by the Port Jackson Painter from the Watling Collection titled Piping Roller, Tarra-won-nang

Cissa sp
Plate RZD010, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Chinese magpie wallpaper design
Wallpaper design featuring birds perched on branches, surrounded by colourful flowers and butterflies. Date: 1922

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