Orange Collection (page 35)

Design for carpet in orange, yellow and brown. Pencil and crayon on tracing paper. Silver Studio. 1934

Design for printed textile with orange flowers
Design for printed textile with orange and beige flowers. Watercolour on detail paper. Silver Studio. 1935

Design with trees on pale green background
Design with trees on a pale green background. Pencil and watercolour on copy paper. Silver Studio. 1929

Design for Frieze with ships and trees
Design for Frieze with sailing ships and trees. Stencil, gouache and distemper on hand-made paper. Rottmann & Co. 1894

Design for book cover with orange flowers
Design for a book cover with orange flowers. Charcoal, pencil and red crayon on detail paper. Silver Studio. circa 1898

Sir Henry Birken in the 1931 French Grand Prix at Pau
Sir Henry Birken (refreshing himself with an orange) in the 4.5-litre, four cylinder, 240 hp supercharged Bentley, four seater sports car, weighing two tons

Mexican amber
Piece of amber from Mexico from the Upper Oligocene about 25 million years old. Donated by Christine Bayliss

Pongo pygmaeus, Orang utan
This glorious orang utan was shot by naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in the mid-1800s

Agate Botswana

Papilio hyllus
Plate 93 taken from De Uitlandsche Kapellen by Pieter Cramer, 1721-1776

Agate thundereggs

Padparadscha is one of the most unusual varieties of the mineral corundum

Plate 106 by William Ellis
Plate 106 from a collection of watercolour sketches by William W. Ellis (?-1785) made on Captain James Cooks third voyage to explore the south (1776-1780)

Gazania splendens, gazania and Callicarpa purpurea, purple b
Plate 29 from The Illustrated Bouquet (1857-64) by Edward Geroge Henderson. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Anomalocaris model
Model of the swimming predator Anomalocaris based on fossils from the Cambrian Burgess Shale, 520 million years old

Polygonia c-album, comma
From Illustrations of British Butterflies: with occasional figures of the larva, pupa, and food-plant (1878) by Theo Johnson

Lutjanus gibbus, humpback red snapper

Colombian copal

Baltic amber jewellery
Matching necklace and earring set made of Baltic amber. Borrowed from Wendy Turner Coates. Image from Amber the Natural Time Capsule Fig. 22

Lebanese amber
A piece of Lebanese amber from the Lower Cretaceous about 120 million years ago

Ramphastos dicolorus, red-breasted toucan

Black fly in Baltic amber
Black fly preserved in Baltic amber. This fly belongs to subgenus Morops and dates from the Upper Eocene about 35 million years old

Sicilian amber containing two spiders which date from the Oligocene period about 30 million years old. Fig. 36 from Amber the Natural Time Capsule

Micronycteris brachyotis, orange-throated bat
An orange-throated bat (Micronycteris brachyotis) photographed in Belize by Frank Greenaway

Lobaria pulmonaria, lichen
A cut-out of a lichen specimen held in the crypt herbarium at the Natural History Museum, London

Auchenorrhynchan bug, true bug
An example of an auchenorrhynchan bug or true bug from the Sinharaja rainforest, Sri Lanka

Ortocryptis weigmani, lizard
A young lizard. This lizard is widely distributed in the forested parts of the lowlands, Sri Lanka

Lilium bulbiferum, large orange lily
Folio 13 from A Collection of Flowers (1795) by John Edwards. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Haematopus ostralegus, Eurasian oystercatcher
Plate 18 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Lonchura maja, white-headed munia, Amandava amandava, red av
Plate 77, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

LS Plate 118 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Mangifera sp. mango
An illustration from the John Fleming Collection, purchased by the Natural History Museum in 1882. Now part of the Botany Library Plate Collection

Ixobrychus minutus, little bittern
Plate 29 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Turnix sylvaticus, Common buttonquail
Plate 16 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

LS Plate 167 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Plate106 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Pericrocotus flammeues, scarlet minivet
Plate 40, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Glareola pratincola, collared pratincole
Plate 46 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Carthamus tinctorius, safflower
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Limosa limosa, black-tailed godwit
Plate 50 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

LS Plate 183 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Plate 114 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Centropyge flavissimus. lemonpeel angelfish
Ff. 27b Vol 2. Watercolour painting by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage to explore the southern continent 1768-1771

Limnodromus griseus, short-billed dowitcher
Plate 76 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Ceyx erithaca, Oriental dwarf kingfisher
Plate 36, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

LS Plate 115 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Plate 139 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

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