Tail Collection

A Common Pheasant alarmed
A Common Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) flies up in alarm. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Polish poster for a film, The Warsaw Mermaid, directed by Tadeusz Makarczynski, based on a local legend. 1956

A Swallow in flight
A swallow (Hirundo rustica) in flight. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Monkey puzzle tree, Araucaria araucana. Endangered
Monkey puzzle tree, Araucaria araucana (Araucaria imbricata). Endangered

Cheshire Cat / Tree
CHESHIRE CAT " I growl when I m pleased, and wag my tail when I m angry"

Pavo cristalus, peacock
Specimen on display in Gallery 40 at the Natural History Museum, London

Hush-A-Bye, Baby by Lawson Wood
A colour illustration by artist Lawson Wood showing a monkey using her tail to rock her baby to sleep

Halleys Comet as it appeared in 1910
The course of Halleys Comet across the night sky through April and May, 1910. The next predicted perihelion of Halleys Comet is 28 July 2061 Date: 1910

Graf Zeppelin airship in flight
The German Graf Zeppelin airship in flight, viewed from directly below

Neophema pulchella, turquoise parrot
Watercolour 132 by Thomas Watling from the Watling Collection titled Turcosine Parrot

British Mark IV tank with Tadpole Tail, WW1
British Mark IV tank with Tadpole Tail, introduced in 1917 and used during the latter part of the First World War

More Rugger Trials
Cartoon, More Rugger Trials. Good head and tail work and clever footwork in the scrum. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evan"

Chesterfield Church
The spire of Chesterfield Church, Derbyshire. The Devil wound his tail around the spire, but the incense from a Mass service made him sneeze and bent the spire!

Men Evening Dress 1893
Three variations of evening dress for 1893-4: dress tail coats with roll collar or step collar & a dress jacket. One man wears a black waistcoat & pumps the others wear white

Humanised turkey in the role of a banker
A humanised turkey dressed in a suit, cast in the role of a fat banker, surrounded by bags of money

Hensons Aerial Steam Carriage
The Aerial Steam Carriage -- side view of the main frame, and plan of the controlling tail

Male Lyrebird - huge tail fanned out in courtship display
Male Lyrebird in full display - a ground-dwelling Australian bird most notable for their superb ability to mimic natural and artificial sounds from their environment

Muffed Flying Tumblers, Pigeons
A portrait of four sub-variants of the Flying Tumbler pigeon breed. The Flying Tumblers shown is the Black Rose-Wing, the Red Rose-Wing, the Red-Badge and the Black Saddle

Chung Ling Soo (real name William Robinson). The other side of the previously shown circular flyer showing a portrait of Soo in the centre of a Willow Pattern Plate

Gipsy girl plaiting horses tail at an encampment in Surrey
A gipsy girl plaiting the tail of the family horse as she sits on the step of their caravan at an encampment in Surrey. (2 of 2)

Helen Duncan showing ectoplasm
Undated photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan showing " ectoplasm" bunched around Duncans mouth and twisted into a tail between her legs. HPG/1/4/2 (iv)

World War II B25 bomber attacks Japanese ship
World War II vintage photograph - B25 bomber attacks Japanese ship in China Sea

Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, second wife to Henry VIII 1501-1536. Depicted as she appeared in France with Mary Tudor

Cyanoramphos unicolor, Antipodes parakeet
Plate 25 from Edward Lears Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae or Parrots (1832). Hand coloured lithograph. Date: 1832

Zeppelin-Lindau Rs II German long range flying boat, seen here in its initial form with biplane tail. It first flew in June 1916, after which modifications were made

Dinosaur tail bones
From a Palaeontology field trip in Niger, West Africa

Animals and birds singing round a piano on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Jim, a bobtail sheepdog
Illustration by Cecil Aldin -- Jim, a bobtail sheepdog, owned by the actress Fabia Drake

Boeing 707-436 G-APFD first BOAC 707 LAP 1960
Tail of Boeing 707-436 G-APFD first BOAC 707 delivered LAP 29 April 1960, 2 days after delivery Date: 1960

Duties of a large bombers crew by G. H. Davis
The duties of a large bombers crew of seven during the Second World War. Every man has a special task allotted to him. Showing a 27-ton heavy bomber over its target in Germany. Date: 1942

Picoides borealis, red-cockaded woodpecker
Plate 389 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

British Earthworms 20C
Longworm Earthworm Blueworm Gilt-Tail Brandling Greenworm

Gipsy girl plaiting horses tail, Surrey
A gypsy girl plaiting the tail of the family horse as she sits on the step of their caravan at an encampment in Surrey. (1 of 2)

German Tail-Gunner 1918
A German tail-gunner seated behind his machine gun

Running Saluki
Once known as the Persian Greyhound. This Saluki runs with his ear and tail hair flowing

Formal Menswear for 1963
French mens formal wear for Spring-Summer 1963: evening dress of tail coat, white tie, wing collar & waistcoat; daywear of morning suit with morning jacket & top hat

Game / Pin Tail Donkey
Template for the game

Comet August 1921
The Earth passes through the tail of an unknown comet, with spectacular aerial effects

Miss Libbys Fruits - Peaches
Libbys Happy Families Card Game, Miss Libbys Fruits - Peaches. circa 1950s

Avro 685 York transport used the Lancasters wings, modified tail unit and engines One used by Winston Churchill as his personal aircraft

Plate 133 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 127 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

Snapper fish
Drawing no 54 by George Raper, 1790. Illustration labelled snapper of Norfolk Island

Starry Gazey Pie, Mousehole, Cornwall
A mouthwatering example of a Starry Gazey Pie, served up on Tom Bawcocks Eve (23 December) at Mousehole in Cornwall

Prodigal Son Returns
A ne er-do-well son, obviously the apple of the mothers and sisters eye, returns home. The dog greets him tail wagging, but his stern father doesn t look best pleased

Dog and British Wasp
Dog (Germany) with the British Navy on its tail : I should like to wag it about but I think I d better keep it still... Date: circa 1914

Water Babies -- two little children, a boy and a girl, in a pool of water surrounded by rocks (left), and a little boy who has turned into a merman, with a fishs tail

Studies of a hare
Pencil studies of a hare by Raymond Sheppard

Turkish Women and Flag
Patriotic postcard with four veiled women set in window shapes, and a sabre hanging from the Crescent Moon Date: circa 1912

BLUNT / CAPRICORN / 47 / 1849
The constellation of Capricorn, this version has the head, shoulders and fore- legs of a goat and the hind body and tail of a fish

Howard Florey in Lab
Howard Florey injects penicillin into the tail of a mouse Date: circa 1940

Three fashion adverts for women's fashionable hats and fur stoles from The Tatler January 1923. Gorringes early spring brimmed hats. Henry Heath Ltd boland style women's hat

Louis Wain Cat Scout pulling tail of semaphore flag waver Date: 1912

The Cat's Nightmare, comical cat with mice on his tail, drawn by Louis Wain Date: 1891

Red Squirrel eating a nut on a tree stump. Date: circa 1910s

The Tale of a Tail, Louis Wain Cat bitten by a Lobster - Comical Doings published Ernest Nister c. 1910. Date: circa 1910

Children's Game Pinning the Tail on the Donkey. Date: circa 1905

Warrior of the Swahili Coast, 16th century (Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Somalia, Comoros). He wears a loincloth, animal skin with tail, and carries assegai lance, bow and arrows, cutlass

Habits and hats of the 13th century

Thomas, Bedel of Redbourn, benefactor to St Albans Abbey
Thomas, Bedel of Redbourn, in striped hood with long tail, 14th century. Gave land in Rebourn to the Abbey of St Albans. From the Golden Book of St Albans, Cotton Nero MS D vii

Illustration of the old and new terminology of bird anatomy, caput head, rostrum beak, collum neck, dorsum back, corpus body, ala wing, cauda tail, crus leg

A young lioness crushing a mouse under its paw, unaware that the mouse was to be her husband. Fatal marriage. Illustration of a fable by Greek author Aesop

A beaver biting off its own tail to escape from hunters. Behind it, some natives with spears and hounds. Hunted beaver. Illustration of a fable by Greek author Aesop

A tailless monkey asks a fox for some of his tail. Ape and fox. Illustration of a fable by Greek author Aesop

Woman of the Erzya Mordvins, 18th century
Woman of the Erzya Morvins people, 18th century. She wears an embroidered shift decorated with fringes and tassles, wide girdle, bark shoes, large earrings, cap with tail

Costume of a Mari woman of the Volga River, 18th century. She wears a tall conical schourki hat with a long tail, made of bark covered with cloth and decorated with beads, shells and coins

Rattlesnake, eastern mudsnake and Indian cobra
Rattlesnake and tail, Crotalus species, wampum snake or eastern mudsnake, Fanacia abacura, and Indian cobra, Naja naja. Le serpent a sonnette; couleuvre bleue de la Caroline, le serpent a lunette

Skull, feet and tail of the Eurasian beaver, Castor fiber
Skull, feet and tail of the common Eurasian beaver, Castor fiber. Aquatint drawn and engraved by William Daniell from William Wood's Zoography, Cadell and Davies, 1807

Common frog, Rana temporaria, and tadpole with tail. Rana perfecta, foetus ranae caudatus. De Quadrup. Oviparis. De Rana aquatica et innoxia

The Peacock, the Turkey and the Goose. A peacock displaying its train argues with a goose and a turkey in a farmyard

The Charity Of England
An allegorical drawing of a woman with outstretched arms, facing the wind, which is blowing her hair and clothes from an elevated position

SNECMA C-450 Coleoptere
Snecma C-450 Coleoptere Prototype Parked Outside the Snecma Factory Held in Place by a Mobile Rig before a Test-Flight Date: 1959

Militia or Marine Pattern. 78 in flintlock musket, 1759
Militia or Marine Pattern.78 in flintlock musket, 1759; 42 in barrel, iron ramrod, no escutcheon or tail-pipe. Date: 1759

Simply Simon Cartoon Strip by Iris Chick in Tail-Wagger-Magazine. Date: 1938

Cartoon, The Dispatch of Business (Disraeli and Gladstone)
Cartoon, The Dispatch of Business -- a satirical comment on the conflicting approaches of Benjamin Disraeli (Conservative) and William Gladstone (Liberal) to electoral reform. Date: 1866

Bird anatomy, beak, wing, tail, feathers

Kawanishi N1K2-J Shiden Kai (msn 5128, allied reporting name George ), on display at Willow Grove Naval Air Station circa 1957

Royal Air Force - Avro Vulcan K. 2 XH561
Royal Air Force - Avro Vulcan K.2 XH561 of No.50 Squadron at RAF Wildenrath for an air display

Grumman G-79 XF9F-2 Panther 122477, 3rdt prototype of the F9F and second XF9F-2, powered by a Rolls-Royce Nene turbojet, taxiing for take-off at the Naval Air Test Centre Patuxent River, Maryland

de Havilland Venom prototype VV612. The prototype Venom F.1 was produced by fitting moderately swept wings on the fuselage and tail of a Vampire FB.5 whilst on the production line

Teddy Tail, Duke of Yorks Theatre, London
Teddy Tail, a childrens fantastic musical play by Charles Folkard, music by Frederic Norton, based on the Teddy Tail comic strip in the Daily Mail newspaper, at the Duke of Yorks Theatre

Comic postcard, Little boy riding a donkey on the beach - back at the front Date: 20th century

Aermacchi AL.60C-4 Trojan I-MACP (msn 6231), a new version with 340 hp Lycoming GSO-480-B1 engine, tail wheel landing gear, separate pilot's door and enlarged vertical tail

Cessna O-2A Skymaster 68-11163 (msn 337M-0388), seen after recovery from Davis-Monthan at Fort Huachuca, AZ, before sale to Namibia. (note:- tail section from another aircraft) Date: circa 1993

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