Tail Collection (page 8)

Monkey and dog on a New Year card
A monkey pulling a dogs tail through a barrel on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Walter Rothschilds Necropsittacus borbonicus
Plate 8, a watercolour painting on paper by Henrik Gronvold from Walter Rothschilds Extinct Birds (1907). Art original 56 x 78 cm. Date: 1907

Psilopsiagon aymara, grey-hooded parakeet
Plate 32 from Edward Lears Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae or Parrots (1832). Hand coloured lithograph. Date: 1832

Long-billed black cockatoo
Plate 6 from Edward Lears Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae or Parrots (1832). Hand coloured lithograph. Date: 1832

Accipiter cirrocephalus, collared sparrowhawk
Watercolour 112 by the Port Jackson Painter from the Watling Collection titled New Holland Sparrowhawk

Cover design by Cecil Aldin, Cock-O-Lorum, in the Letter Book Series. Showing a white cockerel looking directly at the viewer. Date: 1921

Title page design by Cecil Aldin, Cock-O-Lorum The Great, in the Letter Book Series. Showing a proud white cockerel surrounded by admiring hens. Date: 1921

Two dogs at a veterinary hospital in Surrey. A partially paralysed smooth fox terrier (above) and a boarhound with a broken tail, wearing an arrangement of surgical bandages to stop him wagging it

Rags the dog singes his tail in Peter the pigs kitchen. Date: 1914

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Exmoor pony and dogs at play
Illustration by Cecil Aldin -- an Exmoor pony named Jackie and dogs at play in the yard. Date: 1927

Illustration, The Wren and the Bear -- At the third sting the Fox screamed, and down went his tail between his legs. Date: 1909

Illustration, The Golden Bird -- So that you may get along the faster, come and mount on my tail. The Prince rides on the Foxs back. Date: 1909

Cephaloptera Giorna, or Ox Ray, also known as Horned Ray. Date: 1862

Myliobatis Aquila, or Common Eagle Ray, also known as Toad Fish and Sea Eagle. Date: 1862

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

Torpedo torpedo, or eyed electric ray, also known as Common Torpedo, Ocellate Torpedo, Cramp Ray, Turpaena and Numbfish. It can deliver a strong electric shock of up to 200 volts. Date: 1862

Leucoraja fullonica, or Shagreen Ray, also known as Rough Flapper, French Ray and Dun Cow. Date: 1862

Raia marginata, or Bordered Ray. Date: 1862

Raia microcellata, or Painted Ray. Date: 1862

Raia montagui, or Spotted Homelyn Ray. Date: 1862

Raia radiata, or Starry Ray. Date: 1862

Raia oxyrhynchus, or Burton Skate
Raia oxyrhynchus, also known as Burton Skate, White Skate, Sharp-Nosed Ray, Friar Skate and Mavis Skate. Date: 1862

Dipturus intermedia, or Flapper Skate. Date: 1862

Cover design, Riviera Celebrities, containing sketches from life by Leo Browne, with a preface by E Phillips Oppenheim, and text by Ysabel De Witte. Date: 1925

French Theatre -- Science et Anerye
Science et Anerye (Science and Stupidity), a morality play. Showing an allegorical female figure representing Stupidity in a black cloak with a donkeys head, legs and tail attached to her

French Theatre -- La Farce du Munyer
La Farce du Munyer [Meunier], a play by Andre de la Vigne, in which the Devil carries off a millers soul to Hell. Showing a delighted Devil in orange costume

Angel fish swimming through coral
An angel fish swimming through coral. Date: circa 1920s

Cockerel design
A cockerel design. Date: circa 1920s

Quickstep of Allways, whippet owned by Mrs M R Jones
Quickstep of Allways (born 6 February 1958), a whippet bred and owned by Mrs M R Jones. He was shown in the graduate dog class at Crufts on 6 February 1960. Date: circa 1960

Pigeons - Archangels and Swifts, Fancy Breeds
A portrait of two breeds of fancy pigeon, as seen the illustration, there are two Archangels and two Swifts, also known as Egyptian Swifts

Pigeons - Three Nuns with varied colourations, Fancy Breed
A portrait of three Nuns with varied colourations standing in their pigeon coop. The Nun is a breed of fancy pigeon, also known as the Dutch Shell Pigeon

Pigeons - Black Capuchins and Damascenes
An illustration showing two Black Capuchins, also known as Syrian Wammentauben Beirut pigeons, and two Damascenes in an outdoor scenery

Almond Tumbler Pigeon Tail Feathers
An illustration of Almond Tumbler tail feathers showing their differences after successive moults. The diagram also indentifies the feathers belonging to the cock

Dun Carrier Cock Pigeon
A full-length portrait of a Dun Carrier Cock. The Dun Carrier Cock is an English fancy breed of pigeon. The large cere above the beak is one of the characteristics

Pfalz E I (side view, on the ground) tail trestled

Junkers Ju 352A close up of tail and rear ramp

Gotha G I German long range reconnaissance bomber
Gotha G I German long range three-seater reconnaissance bomber 9/15, completed and first flown in early 1915. Seen here is the prototype, with three-man crew. Date: circa 1915

Friedrichshafen G II German three-man fighter plane
Friedrichshafen G II 131/15 German three-man fighter plane, standing in a workshop with its tail up. It became operational in early 1916, but was only built in small numbers. Date: circa 1915-1916

Handley Page V / 1500 four-man bomber
Handley Page V/1500 four-man bomber, first flown 22 May 1918, with production coming too late for it to be used during the First World War

Airco single-seater DH2, pre-delivery prototype, without nose-mounted machine gun. It went into service in late 1915. Date: circa 1915

Albatros D Va German fighter biplane, believed to have belonged to a Bavarian Jasta, seen here with wheel chocks and the mechanic holding the tail down during engine running tests

Boeing 707-338 C-GRYN Ontario Worldair Sydney 1979
Tail of a Boeing 707-338 C-GRYN of Ontario Worldair at Sydney around 1979 Date: circa 1979

De Havilland Comet 4 G-APDF BOAC tail Istanbul 1959
Close up of tail of De Havilland Comet 4 G-APDF of BOAC at Istanbul on 26 August 1959 Date: 1959

British Aerospace EAP ZF534 tail Farnborough 1986
British Aerospace EAP ZF534 single prototype, test and development aircraft for the future Eurofighter Typhoon programme showing the tail at Farnborough Air Show in September 1986 Date: 1986

Oriental broad-tailed sheep with its tail on a carriage, Ovis orientalis laticaudata.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine; or

Blue-crowned racquet tail, Prioniturus discurus.. Handcolored steel engraving by Joseph Kidd from Sir Thomas Dick Lauder and Captain Thomas Browns Miscellany of Natural History: Parrots, Edinburgh

Fashion of German nobility of the early 16th century.. Chromolithograph from Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt

WW1 - Manufacture of Aerial Torpedoes - France Date: 1916

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