Nineteenth Century Collection (page 7)

Nymphaea capensis var. zanzibariensis, cape blue waterlily
Drawing by Arthur Harry Church, 1907. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. Plate 133

Artocarpus chaplasha, chapalish
Leaves and fruit of the chapalish tree (Artocarpus chaplasha). Illutration from the John Fleming collection

Myotis mystacinus, whiskered bat
Plate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)

Designs for the Natural History Museum, by Alfred Waterhouse
This album of 66 original drawings includes 10 illustrations made with terracotta wash indicating how Waterhouse intended the finished pieces to appear

Calamus rotang, rattan palm

Edward Blyth (1810-1873)
Photograph of English zoologist and pharmacist Edward Blyth taken in 1864

Ornithoptera croesus, Wallaces golden birdwing butterfly
Specimen drawer of golden birdwing butterflys, collected by Alfred Russel Wallace

Psidium, guava
Plate 929 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

John Edward Gray (1800-1875)
Photograph of the notable Keeper of Zoology at the British Museum from 1840

Nycticebus coucang, slow loris
Plate from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China, 1774-1856. See also image reference 11520

Polyplectron napoleonis, Palawan peacock-pheasant
Plate 9 by Joseph Wolf from Daniel Giraud Elliots A Monograph of the Phasianid, or Family of the Pheasants, (1872)

The Rowland Ward diorama
A young and adult giraffe in the Rowland Ward Diorama at the Natural History Museum, London. This display was removed in 2004

Prunus sp. plum (The Imperatrice Plum)
Plate 4 from Pomona Londinensis (1818) by William Hooker. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Murchison Snuff Box
The base of the gold snuff box presented to Sir Roderick Impey Murchison by Tsar Alexander II

Dorataspis diodon, radiolarian
A glass model of a radiolarian, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Aulacantha scolymantha, radiolarian
A glass model of a radiolarian, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Baroness Burdett Coutts. Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, Baroness Burdett-Coutts (21 April 1814 30 December 1906), born Angela Georgina Burdett, was a nineteenth-century philanthropist

Isaac blesses his son Jacob and sends him to Mesopotamia. En
Old Testament. Book of Genesis. Hebrew patriarch Isaac, the only son of Abraham and Sarah. Isaac blesses his son Jacob and sends him to Mesopotamia. Engraving by Gustave Dore. 19th century

Roman Army. Colored engraving. 19th century

The last pawning. 18th century. Colored engraving. The Artistic Illustration, 1886

Pan-hoei-pan (89-106). Chinese intellectual. Portrait. The Spanish and American Illustration, 1886. Engraving by Vela

Samuel Adams (1722-1803). One of the Founding Fathers of the
Samuel Adams (1722-1803). American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Nineteenth-century colored engraving

Middle Ages. Prince. Engraving at Germania, 1882. Colored

MURCIA. CATHEDRAL. Engraving. XIX century
MURCIA. CATHEDRAL. Portico of the main facade and tower. Engraving by Shepherd in The Spanish and American Illustration. 1885. Spain

Abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos. Cloister. Castile and Leon. Spain. Nineteenth-century Engraving

Dollinger, Johann Ignaz von (1799-1890)
Dollinger, Johann Ignaz von (Bamberg, 1799-Munich, 1890). German theologian and historian

Peter I Alexeievitch the Great (1672-1725). Tsar of Russia (1682-1725). Engraving of the XIX century. Colored

Old railway. United States. Nineteenth-century colored engraving

Locomotive. 19th century
Locomotive. Drawing R. Loewenstein. La Ilustracion 1881. Engraving

Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931). American Inventor. Nineteenth-century colored engraving

Bonaparte, Eugene Louis Napoleon (1856-1879). French Prince. Son of Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie. Engraving of La Ilustracion (1880) by Carretero. Colored

Andrassy, Gyula, Count (1823- 1890). Hungarian politician. Engraving. Colored

ORLEANS, Louis Philippe Joseph, Duke of Montpensier and Orleans (1747-1793), called Philippe Egalite since 1792. French Prince, grandson of the Regent Philippe d Orleans. Nineteenth-century engraving

Siemens, Werner von (1816-1892). Engraving
Siemens, Werner von (Lenthe, 1816-Charlottenburg, 1892). German engineer. Nineteenth-century engraving

Weber, Wilhelm Eduard (1804-1891)
Weber, Wilhelm Eduard (Wittenberg, 1804, Gottingen, 1891). German physicist. Nineteenth-century engraving

Carol I (1839-1914)
Carol I (Sigmaringen, 1839-Castle Pelesch, 1914). Prince (1866-81) and king of Romania (1881-1914). Engraving by A. Carretero

Typographic composing new machine. Engraving by W. Meyer for Artistic Illustration, 1885

ABDUL AZIZ (1830-1876). Sultan of Turkey. Deposed and murdered and 1876. Engraving

Boat carrying goods in the port of London. XIX century colored engraving

First Spanish Republic. The chairman called to order a commi
First Spanish Republic (February 11, 1873 to January 3, 1874). The chairman called to order a commission of Catalans who were seeking the release of Republican prisoners in the Carrera de San

Giant tortoises at Tring Park
In 1897 Walter Rothschild despatched explorer Charles Harris to the Galapagos islands to collect a large number of giant tortoises

C. Harris feeding Galapagos tortoises, 1898
Sailor and explorer Charles Harris was despatched to the Galapagos islands to collect giant tortoises for Walter Rothschild in 1897

Transporting Giant tortoises
In 1897 Walter Rothschild despatched explorer Charles Harris to the Galapagos islands to collect a large number of giant tortoises

Caretaker Fred Young
Fred Young was a caretaker and taxidermist at Walter Rothschilds Zoological Museum at Tring in the early 19th Century, succeeding the original caretaker Alfred Minall

Northern cassowary by JG Keulemans
Hand-coloured lithograph of cassowary head by JG Keulemans (c. 1898), based on the live animals at Walter Rothschilds Museum at Tring

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

Geologists of the 1860 s
c.1860 s. From collection of manuscript material by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, donated by his granddaughter Mary Hawkins Date: circa 1860

Pitta Iris, from the Gould Collection
Rainbow Pitta, Pitta Iris, specimen, collected by Captain Chambers in Australia between 1839 and 1841 Date: 1839

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