Mouth Collection (page 9)

Parthenon. Marshal looking towards the horseman who overtake
Greek Art. Parthenon. 5th century B.C. Marshal looking towards the horseman who overtakes him on the left. Detail. Horse. West Frieze I. It comes from the Acropolis in Athens. British Museum. London

Jaw of Australopithecus anamensis. Pliocene. Located in Kanapoi, Kenya. Natural History Museum. London. United Kingdom

Skull probably from Homo sapiens. From Laetoli. Tanzania. Natural History Museum. London. United Kingdom

French allegory about the founding of the East India Company (1717). Merchants and missionaries with Indians at the mouth of the Mississippi River. Colored engraving

The Mouth of Truth. Rome. Italy
The Mouth of Trurh. Marble. 1st century A.D. Basilica of Saint Mary in Cosmedin. Rome. Italy

WW2 leaflet, Warship Week, HMS Victory bulldog
WW2 leaflet, Warship Week, The Navy Guards Your Food. HMS Victory bulldog. In support of the National Savings Movement and the Warship Week Campaign. Date: 1942

Music cover, I Like Mountain Music, fox trot song, words by James Cavanaugh, music by Frank Weldon. With a signed photo of Florrie Forde, music hall singer. 1933

Dental advert, Pure Vegetable Cement
Dental advert, James Penneys Pure Vegetable Cement, for stopping tender teeth. 1874

Birthday card, Dog with basket. early 20th century

View toward Enoshima island, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Enoshima, a small offshore island, about 4 km in circumference, at the mouth of the Katase River, which flows into the Sagami Bay of Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan Date: circa 1906

Duck, frog and egg on a comic card
The mother duck attacks the frog with her egg in its mouth -- A Fowl Blow. (3 of 5) Date: circa 1890s

Facial Exercises
A young woman in a bathing cap and face cream, twists her mouth as part of her routine of facial exercises to tone the muscles and keep her face looking young and fresh. Date: 1930s

Boy Drinking Milk
Two brothers, one of them over-enthusiatically pushing a bottle of milk into the others mouth! Date: 1950s

Menno Van Coehorn - 2
Baron MENNO VAN COEHORN (or Coehoorn) Dutch military commander and engineer, depicted heroically with mailed fist resting on cannons mouth... Date: 1634 - 1704

Lindisfarne at dusk
The conical mass of Holy Island (Lindisfarne), which rises from the sea in tiers and cliffs off the mouth of Lamlash Bay. Date: 1960s

Fumigating a Room
This young woman covers her mouth to protect herself from breathing in harmful bacteria as she seals a doorway and keyhole of a room in her house for fumigation from disease. Date: early 1930s

Maurice Maeterlinck, (1862 - 1949), dramatist and essayist: a satirical view Date: 1909

Adam De Craponne
ADAM DE CRAPONNE French canal engineer, constructed canal at the mouth of the Rhone Date: 1519 - 1559

Scene at a seance, with a woman sitting in a chair on the right, and a man emerging from behind a curtain with a long piece of white muslin in his mouth (presumably meant to be ectoplasm)

Baby playing with pebbles, looking rather thoughtful. Date: circa 1960s

Steam Seine Boats going out by Charles Napier Hemy (1841-1917), engraved by E Schladitz (dates unknown). Date: 1884

Portrait of male working class man with pipe in mouth reading The Illustrated London News

Garden scene with flowers on a greetings card
Garden scene with flowers, water spouts and a statue in a niche on a greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Man yawning and stretching on a train as he reaches his destination. Date: circa 1960s

Cat on plate design on a Christmas card
Cat with mistletoe in its mouth on a blue and white plate design on a Christmas card. circa 1890s

Dog on plate design on a Christmas card
Dog with a message in its mouth on a blue and white plate design on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Dog carrying basket of flowers on a Christmas card
Large dog carrying a basket of flowers in his mouth on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Fisherman with pollock, Lands End, Cornwall
Fisherman landing a four pound eight ounce pollock near Lands End, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

Pensive girl on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Common Myna adult sings while sitting on a basalt garden wall grounds of Le Prince Maurice resort near Poste de Flacq East of Mauritius

Cherub on a Christmas or New Year card, based on one of the cherubs in Raphaels Sistine Madonna. circa 1890s

Angel on a New Year card
Angel with white wings on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Children making a snowman on a Christmas card. circa 1890s

Hypsilophodon skull
Hypsilophodons narrow mouth would have been suitable for picking out soft shoots and leaves. Narrow mouths allow animals to select food with more care. This specimen lived 125 million years ago

Cartoon, Soldier returning from leave, WW1
Cartoon, a French soldier returning from leave tells his colleague what it was like. At every point someone pointed to the Keep Quiet notice, although what he had said was entirely innocent

Cartoon, He was phoning from the tobacco shop, WW1
Cartoon, He was phoning from the tobacco shop. A supposedly deaf and dumb man is caught on the telephone, arrested as a spy and escorted through the street, much to the delight of the children

Cartoon, Theres a German in the next bed, WW1
Cartoon, Theres a German in the next bed. A French soldier needs to ask the nurse for the chamber pot, but doesn t want the German to hear him in case its sensitive information

Bringing in the Boars Head (and the Colmans Mustard!) - Christmas Feasting tradition. Date: circa 17th century

Title page illustration by Cecil Aldin, The Snob, Some Episodes in a Mis-spent Youth, showing two dogs fighting and another dog walking off with a bone in its mouth. Date: 1904

Bull terrier with hare
A bull terrier running with a hare in its mouth -- Cracker catches the hare (Aldins own dog). Date: 1930

Gosling carried off by a fox
A gosling is carried off by a fox. Date: circa 1933

Mongrel puppy howling wakes up his master, who comes to investigate. Date: 1914

Mongrel puppy examined by two pedigree dogs in the park, to see if he is a thoroughbred -- Open your mouth and say Ah! Date: 1914

Mongrel puppy howling in the night at the side of his kennel. Date: 1914

Cartoon, Scientific Researches! New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! or, an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air, by James Gillray

Cartoon, Extirpation of the Plagues of Egypt, Destruction of Revolutionary Crocodiles; or, The British Hero cleansing the Mouth of the Nile, by James Gillray

Ophidium Eel and Muraena
Ophidium Eel or Beardless Ophidium (Ophidion imberbe, now classified as Pholis gunnellus, ie Rock Gunnel or Butterfish), and Muraena (Muraena helena), also known as Mediterranean Moray

Sea Lamprey, Lampern, Planers Lamprey and Pride
Sea Lamprey (Petromyzon marinus), Lampern (Lampetra fluviatilis or European River Lamprey), Planers Lamprey (Petromyzon planeri), and Pride (Lampetra fluviatilis or Petromyzon branchialis)

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