Snout Collection

Mycenaean art. Greece. Silver rhyton as head of a bull with golden horns and forehead adorned with a gold rosette. Royal Tomb IV at Mycenae. 16th century BCE. National Archaeological Museum. Athens

Close-up portrait of a pig
Close-up portrait of a contented-looking pig. Date: circa 1960s

Brazilian Tapir - Native to thick, swampy forests of Brazil
Brazilian Tapir - Native to the thick, swampy forests of Brazil and a first cousin to the horse. Date: circa 1944

A roast pig on a spit, West Country. Date: circa 1960s

Captain Woodwards seals at the London Hippodrome
Two of Captain Woodwards performing seals at the London Hippodrome demonstrating their balancing skills. Date: 1903

Squirrelfish, five-lined snapper, Torroto
Squirrelfish, Holocentrus adscensionis 22, five-lined snapper, Lutjanus quinquelineatus 23, Torroto grunt, Genyatremus luteus 24 and pointed snout wrasse, Symphodus rostratus 25

Exotic insects
Jewel bug, Poecilocoris druraei 1, 5, Galerita americana 2, snout weevil, Brenthus minutus 3, magnified 7, and Casnonia longicollis, natural size 4, magnified 6. Handcoloured lithograph from John O

Close-up portrait of a smiling pig. Date: circa 1960s

Edison Snout, protection from industrial dust
The Edison Snout, invented by Thomas Edison as a protection from industrial dust in the production of fine steel from low-grade ore. late 19th century

Curtis British Entomology Plate 288
Lepidoptera: Hypena crassalis (Beautiful Snout) [Plant: Urtica dioica (Common Nettle)] Date: 1824-39

Butterfly Fish Date: 1849

Old Type Pug
Standing Pug. A very old type example with cropped ears and a long snout. The tail, although less exaggerated than in later periods, is curled over the back

Two piglets in a wooded area, one of them sniffing at (or rubbing its head on) a tree trunk. Date: circa 1960s

Head of a horse. 4st century BC. Greek art
Head of a horse. Marble. 350-300 BC. From Taranto. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom

Parthenon. Marshal looking towards the horseman who overtake
Greek Art. Parthenon. 5th century B.C. Marshal looking towards the horseman who overtakes him on the left. Detail. Horse. West Frieze I. It comes from the Acropolis in Athens. British Museum. London

Mycenaean art. Greece. Rhyton as lions head embossed in gold foil. Found in Tomb IV Circle A at Mycenae. Around 1550 BCE National Archaeological Museum. Athens. Greece

Gymnammodytes cicerelus, or Mediterranean Sand Eel, also known as the Short-Snouted Launce (Lance). Date: 1864

Macroramphosus scolopax, or Longspine Snipefish, also known as Bellowfish, Bellows-Fish, Common Bellowsfish, Spine Trumpet Fish, and (simply) Trumpetfish. Date: 1864

Hungry Peter as a piglet stealing poultry food
First Come, First Served -- Hungry Peter as a piglet unwittingly stealing the food from the cock and hens, who peck at him and drive him away. Date: 1912

Plate 104 by William Ellis
Plate 104 from a collection of watercolour sketches by William W. Ellis (?-1785) made on Captain James Cooks third voyage to explore the south (1776-1780)

Aspitrgla cuculus, red gurnard
Plate 89 by William MacGillivray from his Watercolour drawings of British Animals, 1831-1841

LS Plate 152 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 143 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

LS Plate 154 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 98 by William Ellis
Plate 98 from a collection of watercolour sketches by William W. Ellis (?-1785) made on Captain James Cooks third voyage to explore the south (1776-1780)

LS Plate 194 A-D 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 142 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

lantern bug
The strange looking species of lantern bug, Sri Lanka

Watercolour 58 from the Watling Collection
Watercolour 58 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

Acipenser sturio, common sturgeon
Plate 96 by William MacGillivray from his Watercolour drawings of British Animals, 1831-1841

Benthosuchus sushkini
A fossil skull once belonging to an amphibian which lived during the Triassic period, 230 million years ago. This fossil originates from the Triassic rocks of the Scharzhenga river, Vachnevo Russia

Plate 98 from Illustrations of Indian Zoology by John Edward
Plate 98 from Illustrations of Indian Zoology, Vol. 2 by John Edward Gray, (1833)

Sketch of a sleeping pig

Theatre / Play / Shakespeare
The amateur players: Quince, Snout, Flute, Snug, Starveling & Bottom Date: 1908

Origin Species, CH Bennett, Fat man - pig
Piggish. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of a man who eats too much, from a pig. This old glutton, fond of good eating is a natural descendant of the pig

A pig silhouetted against the sky
A pig stands silhouetted against the sky in a field

A pig in a field
A pig stands in a field, contemplating the grass

A piglet gazes into the camera

Two seals at the zoo with their heads poking out of the water, looking very much in love

A strange and mysterious creature -- answers on a postcard, please!

Reptiles / Crocodile
Narrow-headed Crocodile

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