Pad Collection (page 2)

Cup-flowered water lily with large white flower in front of round lily pad, Nymphaea nitida.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtiss

Chocolate box design, kingfishers
Chocolate box design, featuring kingfishers, the one in the middle with a fish in its beak. Date: 20th century

Two boys in their cricketing gear at the side of a cricket pitch

Tall slim cricketer
A tall, slim cricketer with two bats, wearing shinpads

Gas masks of 1915
Photograph showing two gas masks in 1915, (above); a cotton-wool pad of April 1915 and (below); Hypo Helmet gas-mask of November

An Atlas D launch vehicle on Pad 14 for the second attempt to place an unmanned Mercury spaceceaft into Earth orbit. August 1961. Date: 1961

CCMTA MTN Pad 18A a Vanguard satellite launch
CCMTA, MTN, Pad 18A, a Vanguard satellite launch. February 1959. Date: 1959

CCMTA Pad 18A Vanguard prior to launch
CCMTA, Pad 18A, Vanguard prior to launch. April 1958. Date: 1958

Nymphaea rubra, red indian water lily see 40246
Plate 1160 from the Fleming Indian Drawings Collection, c. 1790. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Nymphaea lotus, water lily of Malabar
Watercolour by T. Reichel, 1789. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Tanzanian leaf folding frog
The right hand of a Tanzanian leaf folding frog. The size of the toe discs can vary from specimen to specimen. These frogs were first discribed in 1928 but there has been no agreement on how many

Nymphaea rubra Roxb. red Indian water lily
Plate 1160 from the Fleming Indian Drawings Collection, c. 1795-1805. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Nymphaea lotus, water lily
Plate 6 from the Fleming Indian Drawings Collection, 1800. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Girls Reading by River
A girl wearing a bonnet with a pink ribbon sits on the river bank and reads her book. Date: 1889

Alfred Waud, full-length portrait, seated, holding a pencil and pad, facing left. Date ca.1863

Fairies on a lily pad. Artist: Lydia Hine. Fairies float on a lily pad Date: circa 1920

Raymond Sheppard self portrait - drawing
Raymond Sheppard self portrait - sketching. Artist Raymond Sheppard (1913 - 1958) studied art at Bolt Court under S.G. Boxsius and in addition to exhibiting work at the R.A

Self portrait studies by Raymond Sheppard
Raymond Sheppard self portrait - head and shoulders studies (back view) whilst drawing. Artist Raymond Sheppard (1913 - 1958) studied art at Bolt Court under S.G

Ryder car disc brake pad machine
A factory worker operates a Ryder disc brake pad machine. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

A Ryder disc brake pad machine in action in a car factory. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

A batsman exhibitis four different shots
A combination action photograph of a batsman, in full cricket kit, plays four different shots, from the classic forward defensive shot (left) through to a cover drive (right)

Boys Club field work 1934
Nine boys from a Boys Club sit together in a field looking with great interest, at what, we don t know. One bespectacled boy makes notes in a pad

Grandfather and Grandson go fishing
A Grandfather and his Grandson go fishing in a stream with nets on long poles. The young lad, wearing blue dungarees, catches a big one!

Phone Message
A secretary writes down a phone message

Water Babies / Tom
Tom, seated on a lily pad, watches a dragon fly whilst the vile otter lurks in the background

Landing Project Paris
Project for an airport on the roof of Galeries Lafayette, in the heart of Paris, whose convenience would outweigh the danger, the noise and other minor drawbacks

The Black Cape. An illustration from Salome by Oscar Wilde, 1894. Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898)

Giant Water Lily / 1849
Also known as Victoria Regia. An example is displayed at Chatsworth where a young lady stands on a leaf to demonstrate its strength

Artists at Work
A painter at is easel in Bruges, Belgium is copied by a little boy with his sketch pad and crayons

Criminal, Henry Cook
HENRY COOK: Debtor, petty thief, giver of threats of violence, foot-pad, highwayman, horse thief, shoemaker, hanged at Tyburn 6 December 1741

Tom / Water Babies / 1909
The thing whirred up into the air, & hung poised on its wings : Tom & the dragonflies

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