Seaweed Collection

Algues - algae
Illustration of many varieties of algae. Date: 1930

Cartoon, Mermaids and U-Boats, WW1
Cartoon, Mermaids and U-Boats. Two mermaids and two fish are disturbed by a German U-boat which has a face like a shark. Date: 1917

Gathering Seaweed at Le Hocq, Jersey, Channel Islands - the principle growing agent for the famed Jersey Royal Potatoes, although used less these days. Date: circa 1910s

Costumed group at Baroness D Erlangers costume ball, Venice
A group on the theme of Neptunes Embassy at Baroness D Erlangers celebrated costume ball at the Fenice Theatre, Venice in 1926

Illustration, A Song of the English, Lighthouse
Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine)

Tools of the Australian aborigines
Tools and weapons of the Australian aborigines. Drinking vessel made of dulse leaf 1, stone knife 2, basket for shells 3, basket 4, shell necklace 5, spears 6-9, wooden sword 10, 12, shield 13

Javillo or antidote caccoon fruit, Fevillea cordifolia. (Fevillea hederacea, Fevillea a foglie d ellera). Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle

The Mermaid by Hester Margetson

Gathering seaweed, Mounts Bay, Cornwall, early 1900s

Gathering seaweed, Mounts Bay

Le Hocq seaweed gathering, Jersey

Seaweed gatherers, Jersey

Jersey Seaweed Gatherers early 1900s

Seaweed gatherers, Jersey, early 1900s

The Opal Sea
A seascape oil painting under a bright, blue sky, with a foreground stony shoreline of rocks and seaweed. Date: circa 1919

Children At The Beach
A pastel painting showing a child climbing onto a nearby rock, covered in seaweed at the beach, more children are playing behind. Date: circa 1918

Japan - Tangle Dealer - Kelp Seaweed Shop
Tangle (Kelp Seaweed) Dealer, Japan. Date: circa 1920s

Japan - Dried Laver (Seaweed) Dealer
Dried Laver Dealer, Japan. Green laver, known as aonori in Japan, sea cabbage in China, and parae in Korean, is a type of edible green seaweed, including species from the genera Monostroma and Ulva

Comic postcard, Man at the seaside with a large stick of rock and some seaweed Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, seaweed on the beach Date: 20th century

A little girl pictured playing on the beach at Bognor Regis, 1920s. Date: 1920s

Extinct fossil coral Palaeocyclus porpita 1, and Fungia
Extinct fossil coral Palaeocyclus porpita 1, Fungia fungites 2, 3. Ciclolite numismale, Fongia patellare, Fongia lumaca. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus

Red algae seaweed species
Red algae species Halopteris scoparia 1, Ceramium casuarinae 2, and Ceramium pedicellatum 3. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Peacocks tail, Padina pavonica 1, and Dictyota dichotoma 2. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy

Sugar kelp and other seaweeds
Sugar kelp, Saccharina latissima 1, red seaweed, Delesseria sanguinea 2, Porphyra purpurea 3, and Osmundaria fimbriata 4. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dizionario delle

Three-spined stickleback and Atlantic mackerel
Three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus 1, and Atlantic mackerel, Scomber scombrus 2. Gasterosteo o Spinarella piccola, Maccarello comune

Virginia springbeauty, Claytonia virginica. Claitonia della Virginia. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science

Seaweed species
Serrated wrack, Fucus serratus 1, Desmarests flattened weed, Desmarestia aculeata 2, and brown algae, Halidrys siliquosa 3

Woman in costume as a page in La Mascotte, 1880s
Woman in costume as a page in La Mascotte at the Theatre des Bouffes Parisiens, 1880s. Handcoloured lithograph by Chatiniere published by Martinet, Paris, 1880s

Edible and medicinal seaweeds, 1940
Edible and medicinal seaweeds by W.P. Pycraft Date: 1940

Range of marine life found at the seaside - octopus, squid or decapod, smallest British cuttlefish, sea slug, and periwinkle. Date: circa 1950s

Worm-like fucus, Furcellaria lumbricalis (Fucus lumbricalis). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1801

Channelled fucus, Pelvetia canaliculata (Fucus canaliculatus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1801

Red oak-leaved fucus, Phycodrys rubens (Fucus sinuosus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1800

Dictyota dichotoma (Green dichotomous laver, Ulva dichotoma). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1800

Arthrothamnus bifidus (Cloven fucus, Fucus bifidus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1800

Bifurcaria bifurcata (tuberculated fucus, Fucus tuberculatus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1800

Thongweed, Himanthalia elongata (Downy fucus, Fucus tomentosus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1800

Bearded yellow byssus, Byssus barbatus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1800

John Flaxmans water vase decorated with a Triton grasping a sea monsters head. Chromolithograph by W. Griggs from Frederick Rathbones Old Wedgwood

Bladderwrack, Fucus vesiculosus. Handcoloured woodblock engravings from James Mains Popular Botany, Orr and Smith, London, 1835. James Main (1775-1846) was a Scottish gardener, botanist and writer

Tangle or cuvie kelp, Laminaria hyperborea (Laminaria cloustonii). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler

Harbor seal, Phoca vitulina, green algae
Harbor seal, Phoca vitulina 1, green algae, Acetabularia acetabulum 2 and seaweed, Fucus species 3. Un requin ou veau marin, Phoca vitulina, plante marine Acetabulum, le Tilleul marin

Seaweed without coral bark 1, and smaller seaweed with yellow coral bark 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Christian Nicolaus Kleemann from Georg Wolfgang Knorrs Deliciae

Corals and seaweeds
Precious coral, Corallium rubrum 1, fused ivory tree coral, Oculina varicosa 2, bamboo coral, Isis hippuris 3, and bryozoan, Flustra foliacea 4

Shells and seaweed on the shore
Sea snail, Haustellum haustellum 1, black and white cone, Conus ebraeus 2, Episcopal miter, Mitra mitra 3, dog conch, Laevistrombus canarium 4, limpet, Patella scutellaris 5, and rosy razor clam

Oarweed, Laminaria digitata, Laminaire digitee. Handcoloured steel engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr

Red algae and seaweeds or Florideae: Irish moss, Chondrus crispus, conglomerate seaweed, Melanamansia glomerata, Constantinea rosa-marina, Ptilota serrata, Neoptilota densa, Rissoella verruculosa

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