Spotted Collection (page 9)

Business card design, woman in purple dress
Business card design, depicting a woman in a stylish purple dress with black spots, and matching hat. Date: 20th century

A variety of pistols, including Colts Deringer pistol
Masterful Reinecke. Silhouette of a wailing fox (or a wolf), in pain from a sore (and bandaged) foot, howling his angst to a goose, which he has swatted out of a tree and an observant perched owl

The Wailing Bear
Silhouette of a wailing bear, in pain from a sore (and bandaged) foot, howling his angst to the moon (and a perched owl). Date: circa 1910s

A wandering Pierrot Minstrel with his black cat. Date: 1892

Design with trees on pale green background
Design with trees on a pale green background. Pencil and watercolour on copy paper. Silver Studio. 1929

Plate 108 by William Ellis
Plate 108 from a collection of watercolour sketches by William W. Ellis (?-1785) made on Captain James Cooks third voyage to explore the south (1776-1780)

Plate 109 by William Ellis
Plate 109 from a collection of watercolour sketches by William W. Ellis (?-1785) made on Captain James Cooks third voyage to explore the south (1776-1780)

Spotted sole illustration
One of 67 original water colour drawings of Mammals, Reptiles and Fish found at King Georges Sound, Western Australia, and in its neighbourhood; accompanied by manuscript notes by Neill, Robert

Anthus novaeseelandiae, New Zealand pipit
Watercolour 270 by the Port Jackson Painter from the Watling Collection titled New-Holland Lark

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

Pardalotus punctatus, spotted pardalote
Watercolour 287 by Thomas Watling from the Watling Collection titled New Holland Manakins

Salmo salar, Atlantic salmon
Plate 90 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 177 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 183 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 139 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 182 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 175 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

Turnix sp. Buttonquail
Plate 85, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

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 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

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 160 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 117 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 seven fish
Plate 25 from Louis Renards Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, Vol 2, 1754. This was the earliest known work on fish to be produced in colour

Colourful illustration of five fish
Plate 22 from Louis Renards Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, Vol 2, 1754. This was the earliest known work on fish to be produced in colour

Erythrotriorchis radiatus, red goshawk
Watercolour 101 by the Port Jackson Painter from the Watling Collection titled Radiated Falcon

Cypraea argus, hundred-eyed cowrie
A pair of hundred-eyed cowries (Cypraea argus). A marine gastropod found across the Indo-Pacific. The name hundred-eyed refers to the particular type of shell pattern

Dactylorhiza fuchsii, common spotted orchid
Common spotted orchid on chalk mound, a project to establish british orchigs in the Wildlife Garden at the Natural History Museum, London. Photographed by Derek Adams, May 2003

Troides haliphron, birdwing butterfly
Digital image of the underside of a mounted specimen of a female birdwing butterfly (Troides haliphron) from the family Papilionidae

Oenanthe oenanthe, northern wheatear
Plate 187 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Catfish
Drawing no 114 by Alfred Russel Wallace

Anthus sp. pipit
Plate 132 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Cuculus canorus, common cuckoo
Plate 139 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Oriolus xanthornus, black-hooded Oriole
Plate 165 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Struthio camelus, ostrich egg
The egg of an ostrich (Struthio camelus)

Plate 29 from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand Bauer
Gaston Tissandier. Head-and-shoulders portrait of French balloonist, Gaston Tissandier. Date between 1880 and 1900

Colias hyale, pale clouded yellow butterfly
Mounted specimens of the pale clouded yellow butterfly, family Pieridae from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London

Lycaena dispar, large copper
Mounted specimens of the large copper butterflies from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London

Glaucopsyche lygdamus, xerces blue
Xerces blue (Glaucopsyche lygdamus) butterfly specimen from San francisco bay, now thought to be extinct

Burnet moth
Plate 2 from 298 water-colour drawings of insects and larvae (1622) by C. Flegel

Monticola solitarius, blue rock thrush
Plate 19, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)

Pellorneum ruficeps, puff-throated babbler
Plate 25, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)

Zoothera wardii, pied thrush
Plate 52, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)

Thamnophis sp. garter snake
Hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled The Green Spotted Snake

Colourful illustration of four fish and an eel
Folio 8 from Louis Renards Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, Vol 1, 1754. This was the earliest known work on fish to be produced in colour

Turdrus viscivorus, mistle thrush nest and eggs
Plate 4 from James Boltons third edition of Harmonia Ruralis: or an essay towards a natural history of British Song Birds, Vol.1, (1845)

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