Nature Collection (page 65)

Fossils found in Buckinghamshire
A deposit of fossils discovered in a bed of clay on the farm of Mr Greaves at Tingwick, Bucks, excited considerable curiosity and speculation as to their nature and origin

Military tailor and in family in Bethnal Green
This is a room occupied by a military tailor and his family at No. 10 Hollybush Place in Bethnal Green in the East End of London

Light through the trees and a perched Little Owl
Hazy mid-afternoon light falls through two large trees, sat in the middle of a classic English countryside scene of rolling fields and low distant hills

A countryside stream with an otter
A view of a countryside stream. An otter is set into the border framing the scene. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Light through the trees with Badger border
The light from the rising sun bursts through a misty morning scene of an autumnal wood. A badger in inset into the square framing of the scene. Airbrush painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Christmas on Board a British Battleship, 1894
Engraving showing the scene on the deck of a Royal Navy Warship in the Mediterranean, at Christmas. The women have come onto the warship to sell figs, nuts, apples

On the Ponte della Paglia: Going to the Council
Engraving from a painting by H.Wallis, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1876, entitled On the Ponte della Paglia: Going to the Council

Shop in Private Home
A dog stands with its master and mistress outside a shop which is located in a private home; window notices also advertise a furnished house and apartments to let

Numa Visits Pythagoras
PYTHAGORAS He is visited by Numa, second king of Rome, who hopes to learn the screts of nature

Jos Chamberlain / Sourire
A perfidious John Bull in league with Jack the Ripper - this is the true nature of England. Satire on Cecil Rhodes and Chamberlain at the time of the Entente Cordiale

Louis Pasteur in his laboratory
Born in 1822, he studied chemistry under Delafosse. He discovered the nature of the fermentation and went on to research his germ theory of disease

Louis Pasteur experimenting on a chloroformed rabbit
Born in 1822, he studied chemistry under Delafosse. He discovered the nature of the fermentation and went on to research his germ theory of disease

Native American Masks
Masks are worn by Native American medicine men in their religious and tribal ceremonies, in the belief that this enables them to acquire the forces of nature

Dog-Walking 1913
A lady manages to both keep warm and look elegant in a woollen tailleur du matin, while her dogs make do with what nature gave them

M. Pasteur in his laboratory in Paris
Louis Pasteur was born in 1822. He studied chemistry under Delafosse. Discovering the nature of fermentation, he went on to research his germ theory of disease

Portrait of Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur (1822-95) studied chemistry under Delafosse. He discovered the nature of the fermentation and went on to research his germ theory of disease

Culte Naturel
The Revolution replaces the Christian church with a Cult of Nature : like the former church, it holds ceremonies of baptism (shown here), marriage and so on

The Glory of Spring
A woman in aesthetic dress picking iris in a classical garden setting

NESTORIUS Persian prelate, Patriarch of Constantinople, deposed for his heretical views about the nature of Jesus

Satire on Religious Art
A satire on the literal nature of religious art, with St Anthony preaching to the fishes lampooned

Square-Flowered Plant
Gertrud, from Dresden, improves on nature by squaring-up her flowers - to stunning effect !

Galvani Replicated
While some scientists share Galvani s, and some Voltas views of the nature of electricity, Galvanis findings are confirmed by Halle and von Humboldt

Nature Stories for Tiny Folk
A mother and three children enjoy an impromptu nature lesson while sat under a tree on a summers day

Back cover / Nature Stories for Tiny Folk
Stylished country scene with a lamb in the foreground, cottages in the distance and a bright blue sky

Animals / Ermine / Mice 1555
Ermine eating mice

Owen Jones Flowers 91
Full-sized horse-chestnut leaves, traced from nature

Owen Jones Flowers 93
Ivy Palmata and Common Ivy: full-sized leaves, traced from nature

Owen Jones Flowers 95
Various leaves, full-sized, traced from nature: Vine, Holly, Oak, Turkey Oak, and Laburnum

This Fortress Built by Nature
A symbolic image showing a lone soldier defending the White Cliffs

Giant Elephant / La Nature
The skeleton of the giant elephant of Durfort on display in the new gallery of palaeontology at the Natural History Museum, Paris, France

Caring for Nature
NATURE LOVERS : some of us are fonder of Nature than others

Mushrooms at home 19C
A variety of mushrooms growing in a wood

Jj Rousseau / Guillerminst
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU French philosopher and author communing with nature

Two boys and a tree
Two little boys threaten to fight each other -- fortunately, the tree manages to keep them apart!

Owen Jones Flowers 92
Full-sized vine leaves, traced from nature

New Year, Ancient Persia
ANCIENT PERSIA The Nourouz ceremony is a presentation to the ruler, symbolising the fruits which nature will hopefully bestow on the nation

New Year, Ancient Greece
ANCIENT GREECE The new year is celebrated with a three-day festival of Dionysos, revelry intended to stimulate the rebirth of nature and fertility

Dog Confronts Snake
A brave little dog protects its owners by confronting a snake which has emerged from the undergrowth while they were sketching nature

At Dressing Table
A lady at her dressing table considers how she may improve on nature

Father / Children / Nature
Father explains the wonders of nature to his three children

French Utopia of 1850
A French Utopia, with harmony between colours, creeds, scholars and labourers, young and old, male and female, the arts and the sciences amid the joy of nature & new technology

Electricity Franklin
Benjamin Franklin, by flying a kite in a stormy sky, demonstrates the electrical nature of storm-clouds, giving him the idea of a lightning conductor

Devastated Battlefield
The Wasteland: The aftermath of a battle, showing the havoc wreaked upon nature by warfare

Bird and Predator
Nature red in tooth and claw - a stoat-like creature has got its teeth into a guinea fowl or some such bird : predator and prey fall together from a tree

Actorly Speciment 1790
Attic Miscellany Theatrical Portraiture No.3: What Nature ought to be! A foppish looking thespian, hand on hip & monstrously mishapen wig, hams it up on stage

Spirit of Nature (Sibly)
The UNIVERSAL SPIRIT OF NATURE, life perpetually renewed in her womb, and with the sun, moon and all creation subject to her rule

Whitman / Leaves of Grass
We are Nature, we are bedded in the ground, we are rocks

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