Sun Dial Collection

Horace Walpole / Smith 10
HORACE (HORATIO) WALPOLE 4TH EARL OF ORFORD English man of letters at the age of ten

Unusual Sundial
An unusual armillary sphere sundial with a base with fish sculpted into it, at Bath, Somerset, England

Isaac Newtons Sundial
Sir Isaac Newtons sundial in the Royal Society. Date: late 17th century

Natural Sundial, Settle
At Settle, Yorkshire, Castleberg Rock provides a natural sun-dial; its passing shadow, until the 18th century, was used by the residents to measure time

Egyptian Sundial
A primitive SUN DIAL, still used in Upper Egypt, is simply a pole stuck in the ground, with stones marking the passage of its shadow and the time taken from one to next

Sketch of Hartwell House, Buckinghamshire, by Reverend Baden Powell (1796-1860), father of Robert Baden Powell. 1846

Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at her ancestral home
Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, later Duchess of York, later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (1900 - 2002), picture with her mother, the Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne at her home, Glamis Castle

Universal Ring Sundial
A Universal Ring Sundial, a French sundial which indicates the time by light passing through the pin hole onto a graduated ring parallel to the earths equator. Date: 18th century

MODERN SUNDIAL
A little girl admires a modern garden sundial. Date: 1950s

Thornton House Sundial
An ancient sundial in the grounds of Thornton House, the Wirral, Merseyside, the residence of Lord Leverhulme

Little girl on a birthday postcard
A little girl on a birthday postcard decorated with pink flowers and a sundial. Date: early 20th century

Old sundial circa 2008

Sundial at Wimborne Minster, Dorset Date: circa 1910s

Plan for a garden, 1954
A 1950s garden laid out with flowering and evergreen shrubs, a rock garden, roses, herbaceous borders and a sundial

Corpus Christi Quad
The quadrangle of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. The college emblem, the pelican, can be seen on top of the central sundial

Dickens / Edwin Drood
Jaspers sacrifices

Giant Sundial
A giant sundial, looking almost like a modern day satellite dish, on the outside of a private cottage at Seaton Ross, Yorkshire

Woman and Garden Sundial
A woman sits pensively in a garden with a sundial

Trees / Holm Oak / Chromo
A holm oak

Greek Hemicycle Dial
The GREEK HEMICYCLE DIAL is an early form of sundial, using the movement of a shadow to measure the passage of time

First Sundial
THE FIRST SUNDIAL attributed to Ecolus of Alexandria

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