Spiky Collection

Teenage girl with 80s haircut
Teenage girl with bizarre 1980s haircut, cyt short with the use of plenty of hairspray!

Simon Le Bon in Cornwall
Simon John Charles Le Bon (b. 1958), English musician, in Cornwall, at the time his yacht capsized during the Fastnet race off Falmouth

Postcard design artwork - Two children by a Christmas tree
Postcard design artwork - Two children chat beneath the Christmas tree, one with a toy duck. The children and the duck all have gift tags! Date: circa 1937

Leaves and blossom of edible chestnut, Fagus castanea
Leaves and blossom of the edible chestnut, Fagus castanea. Date: 1842

Fairies of the Garden - The Scotch Thistle. 1903

Callinectes sapidus, blue crab

Cartoon, group of London theatre managers
Cartoon showing a group of disconcerted London theatre managers, including William Holland with the long, spiky moustache, and John Hollingshead just behind him -- Something really ought to be done

Beauty and the Beast 1912
Front cover of Femina magazine, showing an elegant women wearing cartwheel hat, white cotton dress with high waist, sash belt, pleated yoke, and embroidered hem, with white elbow length gloves

The Round Game of Happy Families, Miss Squills
Chad Valley, The Round Game of Happy Families, Miss Squills the Chemists Daughter. circa 1910

First Earl of Essex
WALTER DEVEREUX, first earl of ESSEX Soldier and statesman, wearing some very spiky armour ! Date: 1541? - 1576

Hystrix cristata; Crested Porcupine
Illustration from the Thomas Hardwicke Collection; 1823 Date: 1823

Repeating Pattern - Pineapples. *PLEASE NOTE that the magnifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern and will not feature on the final file.*

Lepomis microlophus, redear sunfish
Drawing 10 (Ewan 37) from the Botanical and zoological drawings (1756-1788) by William Bartram

Watercolour 66 from the Watling Collection
Watercolour 66 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

Plate 24 by Louis-Isidore Duperrey from his Voyage de la Coquille 1822-1825, Zoologie Atlas, 1826

Watercolour 50 from the Watling Collection
Watercolour 50 by by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

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

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

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

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

LS Plate 155 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 185 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 141 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 119 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 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

LS Plate 122 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

Colourful illustration of four crabs and a lobster
Plate 51 from Louis Renards Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, Vol 2, 1754. This was the earliest known work on fish to be produced in colour

Thyrsites atun, barracuda
Watercolour 372 by the Port Jackson Painter, entitled Wel-gnoo-roo, from the Watling Collection

Spondylus gaederopus, European thorny oyster
A pair European thorny oysters (Spondylus gaederopus). This thorny bivalve is distributed around northwest coasts of Africa

Myxomycetes, plasmodial slime mould
Scanning electron microscope image of a plasmodial slime mould spore (x12000). This mould spends most of its life as a single cell; when they reproduce they form a slug-like blob that can travel

Spodylus americanus, thorny oyster
Watercolour of a thorny oyster on blue paper by Sarah Stone (c. 1760-1844) from the collection of Sir Ashton Lever

Millerite comprises of (nickel sulphide) and is characterized by hair-like fibrous crystals arranged into sprays. Specimen from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London

Typhis pungens, gastropod

Erythrite
Erithrite comprises of (hydrated cobalt arsenate) and is characterized by its striking red-purple colouration and needle-like fibrous crystals

Centrostephanus longispina, echinoid
The echinoid (Centrostephanus longispina). A recent echinoid found in the Mediterranean and East Atlantic. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Lepomis macrochirus, bluegill
Drawing 7 (Ewan 34) from the Botanical and zoological drawings (1756-1788) by William Bartram

Drawing number 54
Watercolour 54 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

Watercolour 63 from the Watling Collection
Watercolour 63 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

Ilex aquifolium XLVI, holly
An illustrative plate depicting holly tree foliage from the Natural History Museum Botany Library Plate Collection

Adamite
A specimen of the mineral adamite (zinc arsenate hydroxide). It is a fluorescent mineral, popular among collectors and shows bright green fluorescent under UV lights

Haworthia herbacea, haworthia
Sketch 295 from the Ehret Collection of Sketches (unbound) by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Antarctic fish illustration
Watercolour by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker from his Drawings of Antartic Fish, 1889. Plate no 12

Durian fruit from Singapore
The durian fruit is distinctive for its large size, unique odour (some compare it to sewage, stale vomit, skunk spray), and formidable thorn-covered husk

Baby in knitted jacket held up
A baby in a knitted jacket and spiky hair is held up for a photo. circa 1940s

Euphorbia Wulfenii (Spurge, Milkweed)
Euphorbia Characias Wulfenii (Spurge, Milkweed), an evergreen perennial with yellow-green flowers, growing in a rockery setting

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