Peacock Collection (page 7)

Programme cover for Casino des Folies, (unidentified location) Paris, 1930. Artwork by Ada Peacock. Date: 1930

Beattie Patent locomotive - Beyer Peacock & Co
Beattie Patent locomotive built by Beyer Peacock and company of Manchester, 1867 Date: 1867

The Peacock Girl by Veysy
Illustration showing a red-haired woman wearing a flamboyant outfit of corset, star embellished skirt and billowing sleeves, with yellow and blue striped bloomers visible underneath

Studies of peacocks

Tiger and Peacock

A Leopard catches a Peacock
A Leopard pounces on a Peacock, whose flights from its perch is not fast enough for the big cats paw. Painting by Raymond Sheppard

The Introduction by Geo. S. Dixon
An actress in a skimpy stage costume and jaunty head dress introduces herself to a theatre audience at the beginning of a show or revue

Clown with a donkey and a dog
A delightful postcard showing a clown with a decorated donkey and dog

Fable / the Peacock
THE PEACOCK The peacock is honoured by Juno with a magnificent train, and parades his beauty in front of all the other birds

Fable / Daw & Feathers
THE DAW WITH BORROWED FEATHERS The jackdaw imagined he could pass as an elegant peacock merely by dressing himself in their coloured plumes

Thomas Love Peacock / 18
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK English novelist and poet at the age of 18

Thomas Love Peacock / 72
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK English novelist and poet at the age of 72

Lady with Peacock Fan
The comtesse Georges de Mniszech stands by the fire holding a rigid fan made from peacocks feathers

White Peacock
WHITE PEACOCK displaying (Pavo albus ?)

Peacock Displaying
A peacock (Pavo cristatus) in 16th-century Scandinavia

Peacock and Hen
A peahen and her mate (Pavo cristatus)

Modiste / Miliner
La Modiste (a milliner) works on a hat

Family / Hamilton / 1793
A family domestic scene in Britain. The children read and play musical instruments

Full Dress 1823
Made from a poppy-colour India muslin with a wadded hem. Ornamented with sprigs of gold & gold lace. Worn with a blond lace scarf, French trimmed gloves & white satin shoes

GIRL BY FIRE / DREAMING
Dreamy girl sitting by the fire

Jupiter, Pope Crowns King
Jupiter, in peacock-chariot ensures splendid order is kept as Pope crowns King

Garden Flowers 1902
A beautiful garden scene, with humanised flowers: the Rose, of course, is Queen

Cock and Peacock
The cock & the peacock as humans

Gwydir Castle, Peacock & Gardener
Gwydir Castle - a peacock has a peck at a tray of seeds while the oblivious gardener (possibly having forty winks!) has a seat in the sun a little furher along the gravel path

Ornamental Pea-Fowl
Ornamental peacock and peahen (Pavo cristatus)

James II Satirised
JAMES II OF SCOTLAND caricatured as an owl, kneeling to the Pope who is depicted as a peacock

Asian Headwear / Racinet
Asian headwear including various turbans

Anne of Denmark / Ful-Lgth
QUEEN OF JAMES I Daughter of Frederick II of Denmark and Norway; married James I in 1589

Cruikshank Banquet
June - The unlicensed Victuallers Dinner Gentlemen tuck into a wide array of dishes including peacock, magpie and dolphin

Chiswick House / Gendall
Chiswick House, seat of the Duke of Devonshire: garden front

Woman of Annes Reign
An elaborately gowned woman of Queen Annes reign sits holding a fan of peacock feathers

Competing with Peacock
Pelisse-robe of pink & grey vertical stripes open to reveal a white petticoat. Girl: short dress with open corsage & chemisette, flat, straw hat & fingerless gloves

Dunlop Tyre Ad / Peacock
Dunlop tyre advertisement, featuring a peacock

C16 Banquet / Peacock
Tudor banquet

Asian Headdess
Depicting various styles of headgear worn in Asia including brightly coloured turbans, tall pointed hats with ornate patterns or in fur

Peacocks and Peahens
One peacock perches on a bough, letting its tail droop while another puts on a show, one peahen shows interest but the others peck for food. (Pavo cristatus)

Peacock and Lizard
A bird introduces an obsequious lizard to a haughty peacock

Uncle Toms Cabin / Eva
Uncle Tom & Eva

Back View of Frock Coat
An American gentleman with top hat, silver topped cane & leather gloves models the back view of frock coat which shows the vents

C18th Century Revival
Fine feathers in wartime: dress designers attempt to counter the practical move of wearing shorter, fuller skirts by employing impractical styles of previous centuries

Nap. Peacock-Pheasant
NAPOLEONs PEACOCK-PHEASANT polyplectron Napoleonis

Grey Peacock-Pheasant
GREY PEACOCK-PHEASANT polyplectron chinquis

Aristocrat and Beggars
The aristocratic peacock turns up his beak when importuned by beggarly rats

Tigridia Pavonia Alba
Peacock Flower or Tiger Flower

August C18Th
This month is named after the Roman emperor Augustus, who is shown as a god drinking from a golden dish

Month of May C18Th
A man collects roses

Idols of Bible Times 3
Adremelech, in the form of a peacock, is the deity to which the idolatrous Sepharvites sacrifice their children, burning them in fire. (see Second Kings 17.31)

Is it a Peacock ???
Is it a peacock? A strange bird with brightly coloured plumage, a crest and a tail that looks like it would fan out to give an impressive display

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