Vulture Collection

Under the Protection of the Gods: A Fantasy of ancient and Modern Egypt. A drawing by Howard Carter showing a hoopoe in the crack of a wall which has ancient Egyptian paintings

Lions and Dead Quagga, by Thomas Baines
Lions and Dead Quagga, Vultures and Adjutants, Zululand, by Thomas Baines (1820-1875). (3 of 5) Date: 1874

Origin Species, CH Bennett, banker - vulture
Vulturine. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of a vulture to a banker. Known for his beak and bald head the vulture has exchanged his feathers for a broadcloth

Fruit Sellers
A painting of a group of fruit sellers, sat under a simple straw roofed stand, beside a trail of smoke rising into the air, a vulture is perched above them. Date: 1917

HMS Vulture - a Clydebank three funnel - 30 knot destroyer
Royal Navy - HMS Vulture, a Clydebank three funnel - 30 knot destroyer ordered under the 1895 - 1896 Naval Estimates. She was the fifth ship to carry this name since it was introduced in 1776 for a

Undertakers regaling themselves at Death's Door, Battersea Rise, Surrey -- a satirical scene in the style of Hogarth, with lines from a serious long poem, The Grave

Cartoon, Now you have peace, WW1
Cartoon, a figure of death says: Your wishes are granted, now you have peace. A silhouette of Kaiser Wilhelm hangs from a gibbet, with a flock of vultures gathering around his body. Date: 1916

Tutankhamun
Gold mask of Tutankhamum inlaid with lapis lazuli. Cairo Museum

Tower of Silence, Bombay (Mumbai), India
Tower of Silence (Dakhmeh), Bombay (Mumbai), India. Date: circa 1890s

Gladys Callow, The Woman with the Way with Her
The Woman with the Way with Her. Gladys Callow, Fellow of the Zoological Society of London is at home with all sorts of animals at the zoo

India - Tower of Silence excarnation Bombay Mumbai
c.1880s India - Tower of Silence for air burial or excarnation near Bombay Mumbai

Pectoral sandpiper and common gallinule
Pectoral sandpiper, Calidris melanotos 1, and common gallinule, Gallinula galeata 2. Chromolithograph after an ornithological illustration by John James Audubon from Benjamin Harry Warrens Report

Turkey vulture and Coopers hawk
Turkey vulture, Cathartes aura 1, and Coopers hawk, Accipiter cooperii, adult 2, young 3. Chromolithograph after an ornithological illustration by John James Audubon from Benjamin Harry Warrens

Lappet-faced vulture or Nubian vulture, Torgos tracheliotos (endangered). From Francois Le Vaillants Second Voyage into the Interior of Africa

King vulture, Sarcoramphus papa. Handcoloured engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d Histoire Naturelle

Eggs of elephant bird, ostrich, cassowary, condor, etc
Large bird eggs: elephant bird, Aepyornis maximus (extinct) 1, 2, ostrich, Struthio camelus 3, southern cassowary, Casuarius casuarius 4, Andean condor, Vultur gryphus 5, bearded vulture

Mathias Sturz fighting a bearded vulture with a knife. Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmanns Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1857

Coconut palm tree, jackal, snakes and birds of India
Coconut palm tree, jackal, adjutant stork, vulture, cobra, kite, and centipede of India. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri after Francois Solvyns from Giulio Ferrarios

Egyptian gods Horus, Harpocrates and Typhon
Egyptian gods Horus, Harpocrates 1-4, Typhon or Set 5-8, and vulture god Nehkbet 9. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrrarios Costumes Antique

Griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus. (Tawny vulture, Falco ambustus.) From a specimen held by the Royal Society. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Peter Brown from New Illustrations of Zoology, B

Andean condor, palm-nut vulture and houbara bustard
Andean condor, Vultur gryphus 1, palm-nut vulture, Gypohierax angolensis 2, and houbara bustard, Chamydotis undulata 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch

Unclean Air Birds - Judaism
Engraving of unclean (non - kosher) air birds

BIG BOSS
Democracy - Depicting a vulture over looking workers while sitting upon a human skull 1941

SPAIN GOYA WAR VULTURE
The Carnivorous Vulture: a satire on Napoleons arrival in Spain during the Peninsular War. Date: circa 1808

YOUNG PLAN / 1929
The Young Plan rises like a phoenix/vulture from the ashes of the Dawes plan (the USs previous attempt to ease Germanys economy). 1929

Parsee Tower of Silence, Malabar Hill, Bombay, India
Parsee Tower of Silence, Malabar Hill, Bombay (Mumbai), India. Date: circa 1905

Egyptian Art. Temple of Kom Ombo. Royal cartridge of the Rom
Egyptian Art. Temple of Kom Ombo. Ptolemaic Dynasty. 2nd century B.C. Dedicated to the crocodile god Sobek and falcon god Haroeris. Royal cartridge of the Roman Emperor Tiberius. Relief

Egypt. Edfu. Temple of Horus. Vulture. Relief
Egypt. Edfu. Temple of Horus. 3rd century B.C. Vulture. Relief

Egypt. Temple of Horus. Relief depicting a sphinx with falco
Egypt. Edfu. Temple of Horus. Relief depicting a sphinx with falcon head and double crown of lotus flowers and goddess Nekhbet with vulture form over lotus flowers

Egyptian Art. Relief depicting a vulture. Karnak
Egyptian Art. The Karnak Temple Complex. Relief depicting a vulture. New Kingdom. Egypt

Temple of Ramses III. Vulture. New Kingdom. (1550-1069 b.C). Twentieth dynasty. Thebes. Medinet-Habou. Egypt

Vulture Nekhbet opening their protective wings. Temple of Ha
Vulture Nekhbet opening their protective wings. Polychrome relief in one of the walls of the Temple of Hatshepsut. 18th Dynasty. New Kingdom. Deir el-Bahari. Egypt

Temple of Hatshepsut. Colonnade. Deir el-Bahari. Egypt
Temple of Hatshepsut. Colonnade. 18th Dynasty. New Kingdom. Deir el-Bahri. Egypt

Hieroglyph on the walls of the Temple of Hatshepsut. At the top is a vulture Nekhbet, opening its protective wings.18th Dynasty. New Kingdom. Deir el-Bahari. Egypt

Temple of Hatshepsut. Door with polychrome reliefs representing the pharaoh Hatshepsut with masculine attributes. 18th Dynasty. New Kingdom. Deir el-Bahri. Egypt

Amphibian biplane, Vickers Vulture II, Iraq
Amphibian biplane, Vickers Vulture II, at Djaliba (Jalibah), Iraq, on 21 April 1924, during an unsuccessful round the world flight attempt. Date: 1924

Egyptian vulture, Neophron percnoterus Endangered species
Egyptian vulture, Neophron percnoterus. Endangered species.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

King vulture, Sarcoramphus papa, and cinereous vulture, Aegypius monachus.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology, Paris

Egyptian vulture, Neophron percnopterus (endangered), and bearded vulture, Gypaetus barbatus.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science

Tutankhamen Funeral Mask
Profile of the gold funerary mask of Tutankhamun inlaid with lapis lazuli. Cairo Museum collection

Pug Peter -- vultures, dog and rabbit
Pug Peter -- The Vultures smiled disagreeably. A dog comforts a rabbit in the face of four predators. Date: 1905

Dead Buffalo, by Thomas Baines
Dead Buffalo, King Vulture and Common Vultures, by Thomas Baines (1820-1875). (2 of 5) Date: 1874

Alexander the Greats army crossing Baluchistan, 325BC
Alexander the Greats army crossing the inhospitable coastal desert of Baluchistan, Mekran, while vultures swarm over head. Date: 325BC

Cathartes aura, turkey-vulture
Feathers from a turkey-vulture (Cathartes aura). Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Gyps fulvus, Eurasian griffon vulture
Image of an Eurasian griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus displayed at the Natural History Museum at Tring

Gyps bengalensis, Indian white rumped vulture
Indian white rumped vulture egg specimens

Shadow drawing. C. H. Bennett, A Bird of Prey
A Bird of Prey. A villainous looking man with hands in pockets, walking the streets of London casts the shadow of a vulture upon the wall behind him

Black Vultures scavenging - Mexico
Natures scavengers. Black Vultures scavenging in the street - Mexico Date: circa 1930s

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