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Tuft Collection

Background imageTuft Collection: Berets by Rose Valois

Berets by Rose Valois
Two hats by Rose Valois described as berets. Both are close-fitting and brimless

Background imageTuft Collection: A sheik rewards a brave youth in the Sahara, 18th century

A sheik rewards a brave youth in the Sahara, 18th century
Reward for bravery among the Mougeare (descendants of Portuguese and Arabs) nomadic people of the Sahara

Background imageTuft Collection: Costume of a Dervise or Dervish man of Syria

Costume of a Dervise or Dervish man of Syria. He wears robes of aba or felt, a scimitar on his girdle and has his hair in a tuft on his head to be tied by a cord to the ceiling

Background imageTuft Collection: Rocket and candy tuft species

Rocket and candy tuft species
Large-flowered garden rocket, Hesperis grandiflora, showy rocket, Hesperis speciosa, fragrant rocket, Hesperis fragrans, seaside malcomia, Malcomia littorea, field moricandia, Moricandia arvensis

Background imageTuft Collection: Godmother of Guggisberg, Switzerland, 19th century

Godmother of Guggisberg, Switzerland, 19th century. She wears a tuft hat, a pyramid of flowers, a dress of black silk with ruff, and her initials embroidered on her bosom

Background imageTuft Collection: Virginian Cardinal

Virginian Cardinal. Date: 1933

Background imageTuft Collection: Ixobrychus exilis, least bittern

Ixobrychus exilis, least bittern
Plate 210 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Background imageTuft Collection: Greek hoplies. Greek classical art. Black-figure

Greek hoplies. Greek classical art. Black-figure ceramic. Heavy infantryman of the armies of the ancient Greece. Classical Greek art. Ceramics

Background imageTuft Collection: Tregony Heavy Horse Show and Country Fayre, Cornwall

Tregony Heavy Horse Show and Country Fayre, Cornwall -- keepers with their beautifully turned out horses. circa 1980s

Background imageTuft Collection: Broad-billed parrot

Broad-billed parrot
Plate 7 from Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World, Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild (1907). Date: 1907

Background imageTuft Collection: Scene of a tournament. 17th century. Engraving

Scene of a tournament. 17th century. Engraving. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris. National Library

Background imageTuft Collection: Fregilupus varius, reunion starling

Fregilupus varius, reunion starling
The reunion starling is an extinct bird native to the Mascarenes. It became extinct c. 1860

Background imageTuft Collection: Cacatua sulphurea, yellow-crested cockatoo

Cacatua sulphurea, yellow-crested cockatoo
Plate from William Hayes Portraits of Rare and Curious Birds, With Their Descriptions, From the Menagery of Osterley Park, London, (1794)

Background imageTuft Collection: Podiceps auritus, Slavonian grebe

Podiceps auritus, Slavonian grebe
Plate 259 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Background imageTuft Collection: Clamator jacobinus, jacobin cuckoo

Clamator jacobinus, jacobin cuckoo
Plate 2, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)

Background imageTuft Collection: Podiceps nigricollis, black-necked grebe

Podiceps nigricollis, black-necked grebe
Plate 404 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

Background imageTuft Collection: Riquet a LA Houpe

Riquet a LA Houpe
(Riquet with the tuft) The beautiful but stupid princess is offered intelligence if she weds ugly king Riquet : not only does she become clever but he becomes handsome


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