Sting Collection

Client: Harvey Nichols - large straw hat - Pamela Minchin
Client: Harvey Nichols - model: Pamela Minchin in a large straw hat - shoot: February 7, 1947 Date: 1947

WW2 - Rear Of A Wellington Bomber
A colorized photograph portraying some British WW2 Royal Air Force airmen standing by the sting in the tail of a Vickers Wellington bomber plane. Date: circa 1940s

The Wasp Sting
Reproduction of a painting by Margaret Mower White. Date: circa 1930

Comic postcard, Chauffeur buying petrol Date: 20th century

Portuguese man-of-war, Physalia physalis. Physalie atlantique. Handcoloured steel engraving from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Menevilles Dictionnaire Pittoresque d Histoire Naturelle

Common stingray, Dasyatis pastinaca (Sting ray, Raja pastinacea). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his Natural History of British Fishes, Donovan and F.C. and J

Emigration - Infested by Mosquitoes. 19th century

Supermarine Spiteful F14 RB520
Supermarine Spiteful F14, RB520, was fitted with a sting-type arrester hook early in 1945 to become the interim Seafang prototype. Date: 1945

X-Ray - Honey Bee Sting. Part of Box 165 Boswell Collection - X-Rays. Date: circa 1900

Sting-mounted Concorde model in a wind tunnel

Larola skin care protection
A woman in beach attire holding a bottle of Larola lotion. The lotion is beneficial to the skin, cooling and refreshing, and provides relief to irritation caused by bites and stings of insects. 1930

Raia Pastinaca, or Stingray, also known as Pastinaca Marina, Fire Flaire and Trygon. Date: 1862

Advert for Debenham & Freebody bathing wear 1937
Pure wool low cut leg swimwear for women, with rope tie around the waist. 1937

Germans Training Wasps to Sting Highlanders Legs, Heath Rob
Humorous illustration showing more treacherous German ideas for making life difficult for British troops. Here, with the help of the ubiquitous plum jam

Blue Steel model on a string below a Handley Page Victor mod
Blue Steel model on a sting below a Handley Page Victor model in an ARA wind tunnel

Hydra sp
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image showing the stinging tentacles and mouth of the coelenterate Hydra (x 36 on a standard 9cm wide print)

Urtica dioica, stinging nettle
A herb which has various medicinal benefits and produces tiny hairs that sting when in contact with skin due to the presence of histamine and formic acid

Paraisobuthus prantli, scorpion
A Scorpion fossil seen here in a nodule of rock

Urtica foliis, nettles
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

O death, where is thy sting?. Illustration shows the Grim Reaper falling down a hillside, losing his crown and breaking his scythe

The Evolution of the engagement ring
Humorous postcard showing the The Evolution of the engagement ring from Ring... to Wrung... then Sting... to Stung! An engagement ring transforming swiftly into a screaming baby! circa 1904

On the Nose! - a mosquito hits the jackpot when encountering a fine hooter

The Bear and the Bees
THE BEAR AND THE BEES The bear is stung by a bee and in retaliation overturns the hive whereupon hundreds of bees attack and sting him

Churchill / Randolph / Fly
British MP Lord Randolph Spencer Churchill as a pesky insect which bites at night, but no-one feels its sting, and which is " all hum"

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