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Fancy dress - little girl dressed as Black & White whiskeyA prize winning fancy dress costume worn by Ethel Patricia Harper, born 25th October 1925. Dressed as the famous Black and White brand of Scotch whisky
The Rehearsal MonochromeThe Rehearsal (1950) (Monochrome). Luke, John 1906-1975. Date: 1950
Demure child seatedSimplicity Monochrome print of a demure child in a woodland setting. Date: circa 1780
Badusa corymbifera - Monochrome drawing by Ferdinand Bauer, c. 1795. Paper, grey wash. Bound into copy of A.B. Lambert, The Genus Cinchona, London, 1797. Date: 1795
The farmers daughterA monochrome version of a painting, on a postcard published by CW Faulkner. Artist: Fred Morgan Date: circa 1903
ConfidencesA monochrome version of a painting of two Victorian ladies confiding in one another over a letter.Date: circa 1900
Entomology, W. Rothschild Zoological MuseumThe Museum was bequeathed to the Natural History Museum following Rothschilds death in 1937, along with its unique collections of preserved animals
Giant tortoises at Tring ParkIn 1897 Walter Rothschild despatched explorer Charles Harris to the Galapagos islands to collect a large number of giant tortoises
Walter Rothschild Bird skin collection, 1932Packed for shipping. The majority of Rothschilds (280, 000 items) bird skin collection was sold the AMNH in New York after he ran into financial difficulties
Alfred Newton (1829-1907), Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge University in the late 19th Century. Newton was an expert ornithologist and tutored Walter Rothschild in anatomy
Thomas Sopwith (1803-1879) & geological modelsThomas Sopwith (1803 - 1879) was an eminent geologist and civil engineer who pioneered methods of representing geological features
Plesiosaurus macrocephalusPlate 15 from Geology and Inhabitants of the Ancient World, by Sir Richard Owen, (1854). This marine reptile could be found during the Jurassic period between 200 and 145 million years ago. Date: 1854
Early 20th Century Photo PortraitSepia studio portrait photograph of Filipina woman taken approximately 1920 Date: circa 1920
Kate Vaughan - Portrait PhotographKate Vaughan - late 19th century sepia studio portrait photograph
A Fashion Phantasy by Mackenzie" Danse de Chapeaux" - an elegant, monochrome illustration by Douglas Mackenzie showing a woman in a revealing outfit and large hat, dancing en pointe with several hats on stands. Date: 1918
Sketch of sleeping womanSketch of a sleeping woman. Date: 1922
Sketch of seated womanSketch of a seated woman. Date: 1922
Sketch of mother and toddlerSketch of a mother and toddler. Date: 1922
Sketch of market woman with basketSketch of a market woman with a basket. Date: 1922
Two sketches of mother and child. Date: 1922
Sketch of man with sweeping brushSketch of a man with a sweeping brush. Date: 1922
Sketch of children and womanSketch of three children and a woman in a scarf. Date: 1922
Sketch of two women and toddlerSketch of two women and a toddler. Date: 1922
Sketch of two children. Date: 1922
Sketch of boy fishingSketch of a boy fishing. Date: 1922
Sketch of praying monkSketch of a monk kneeling in prayer. Date: 1922
Sketch of working people -- a man carrying a basket on his head, and a woman carrying a jar. Date: 1922
Sketch of workman and old womanSketch of a workman carrying something on his shoulder, and an old woman. Date: 1922
Sketch of mother and two childrenSketch of a mother and two children. Date: 1922
Sketch of people in boats. Date: 1922
Sketch of woman scrubbing floorSketch of a woman scrubbing the floor. Date: 1922
Sketches of children and donkeySketches of children and a donkey with a nosebag. Date: 1922
Sketches of mothers and children. Date: 1922
Sketches of children. Date: 1922
Design for Printed Textile in beige and brown. Charcoal and pencil on tracing paper. Silver Studio. 1934
A Natural History of JamaicaTab 274 from A Natural History of Jamaica (1725) by Sir Hans Sloane
Bird-of-paradisePlate 612 from Konrad Gesners Historia Animalium, Vol.3, (1555)
Whaling boatsA photograph from A Cruise in the Arctic (1888) by Livingstone-Learmonth
Missouri LeviathanKochs Missourium. The reliquia of animal indigenous to North America exhibited in 1842 at the Egyptian Hall, London
Title page from Stray FeathersTitle page from Allan Octavian Humes Stray Feathers A Journal of Ornithology for India and its Dependencies, Vol. 2, (1874)
Proteus illustrationPlate X11 from Observations de Zoologie et d Anatomie Comparee (1811) Vol 1, by Humboldt & Bonpland. Entitled Proteus, seu larva salamandrae, Mexicanis axolotl
Namyda agassizii, soft shelled tortoise of GeorgiaDrawing 46 (Ewan 24) from the Botanical and zoological drawings (1756-1788) by William Bartram
The plains of New South Wales, with characteristic animalsPlate 12 from Alfred Russel Wallaces The Geographical Distribution of Animals, (1876)
Mammalia (class), mammalsPlate 11 from The Geographical Distribution of Animals, with a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earths surface, by Alfred Russel Wallace, 1876
James Backhouse (1794-1869)Portrait of James Backhouse, an English botanist
Dr. August Wilhelm Eichler (1839-1887)
Apparatus from laboratory on board H. M. S. ChallengerDrawing made during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes
Cebus capucinus, white-faced capuchinPlate 2 from Museum S.R.M. Adolphi Friderici, by Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), c. 1754-1764