Wing Collection (page 11)

Arlington House
Residence of Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington. Constructed in 1675 on the site of where the southern wing of Buckingham Palace now stands. Date: 1875

Tree swallow, Tachycineta bicolor. White-bellied swallow, adult male 1, female 2. Chromolithograph after an ornithological illustration by John James Audubon from Benjamin Harry Warrens Report

Plan and elevation of a Regency villa. Floorplan shows drawing rooms, dinner room and study.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rudolph Ackermanns Repository of Arts, London, 1817

Costumes of the peasants of Zurich, Switzerland, 18th century. Contadini Zurighesi. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Migliavacca from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient

Street brawl between two men in a 19th century town
Street brawl between two men boxing, knocking over a woman with wheelbarrow, 19th century. Spar d neither man nor mothers Son - Yea clawed the back o Horner John

Toshusai Sharaku image. He was a Japanese ukiyo-e print designer, known for his portraits of kabuki actors. Neither his true name nor the dates of his birth or death are known

Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Liberal Party
David Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Liberal Party. 1911

Joseph Chamberlain, British Liberal politician
Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914), British Liberal politician. 1904

A Little Disinfectant by H. M. Bateman
A speaker on a soap box, clearly with Communist leanings given the red flag, is sprayed by disinfectant, much to the delight of an assembled crowd. Date: 1932

Me with Harrier
Me leaning on the wing of a British Aerospace Harrier GR.3 (Phase 6) on the 1453 Flight pan, RAF Stanley, in the Falkland Islands October 1984. Date: 1984

Nazareth House, Southend on Sea
The new wing of the Nazareth House at Southend on Sea, Essex. Date: Date unknown

Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street
Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, outside 10 Downing Street, London. circa late 1930s

Pierre Clostermann Memorial, Bazenville, Normandy
Clostermann, the First Free French pilot to land in Normandy (ALG B2), held the DFC and Bar and the Legion d Honneur. The Memorial is in the shape of a Spitfire wing

Rear-Admiral W L Grant, British naval officer
Rear-Admiral William Lowther Grant (1864-1929), British naval officer in charge of HMS Drake at the beginning of the First World War. Date: circa 1914

General Louis Botha of South Africa
General Louis Botha (1862-1919) of South Africa, politician and Prime Minister. Date: circa 1913-1914

Robert Laird Borden, Canadian lawyer and politician
Robert Laird Borden (1854-1937), Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Canada. Date: circa 1913-1914

Herbert Henry Asquith, British politician
Herbert Henry Asquith (1852-1928), British Liberal politician and Prime Minister. circa 1913-1914

Morgan Maddox Morgan-Owen - Welsh Amateur Footballer
Morgan Maddox Morgan-Owen (18771950) - Welsh amateur footballer who played in the Football League for Glossop and Nottingham Forest as a wing half

Bat volute shell, Cymbiola vespertilio (Bats wing volute, Voluta vespertilio). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Widest pacific conch, Sinustrombus latissimus (Wing strombus, Strombus latissimus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Fashionable woman feeding her pet spaniel
A fashionable woman at the dinner table feeds her pampered spaniel Azor with a chicken wing, the chambermaid eats a herring from a plate on her knees

Tineida or moths: twenty-plume moth, Alucita hexadactyla, white-plume moth and wing scales, Pterophorus pentadactylus, rose-plume moth, Cnaemidophorus rhododactyla, Phyllonorycter populifoliella

Bird anatomy, beak, wing, tail, feathers. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Menevilles Dictionnaire Pittoresque d Histoire Naturelle

Exotic dragonflies and damselflies
Lucia widow dragonfly, Palpopleura lucia 1, rubyspot damselfly, Hetaerina caja 2, picture wing, Rhyothemis variegata 3, slough amberwing, Perithemis domitia 4, and smoky rubyspot damselfly

Common brown morpho and falsehead butterfly
Common brown morpho, Antirrhea philoctetes (Haetera philoctetes) 1, 2, wing 3, common falsehead butterfly, Oxylides faunus (Thecla faunus) female 4, 5, ventral and dorsal views

Tiger, daggerwing, satyr and sapho butterflies
Harmonia tiger wing, Tithorea harmonia 1, sunset daggerwing, Marpesia furcula 2, andromeda satyr, Cithaerias andromeda 3, and sapho longwing, Heliconius sapho 4. Handcoloured lithograph from John O

Herbert Waring, English actor
Herbert Waring (1857-1932), English actor. circa 1890s

Memorial to ALG B4 Beny sur Mer Normandy
This was used by 401, 411 and 412 Squadrons of the Royal Canadian Air Force who flew Spitfires as part of 126 Wing. The first aircraft to use the Landing Ground was a damaged Spitfire which came down

Dr Charles Mansell Moullin, The London Hospital
Dr Charles Mansell Moullin, surgeon at The London Hospital. 1902

Dr Edwin Hurry Fenwick, The London Hospital
Dr Edwin Hurry Fenwick (1856 - 1944), of The London Hospital, British urologist, and early adopter of cystoscopic and X-ray technologies. 1902

Red Grouse in flight. Date: 1957

Silhouette, Charles Spencer Bunyon at Oxford
Silhouette Charles Spencer Bunyon (1805-?) at Oxford, later a lieutenant in the 7th Fusiliers. circa 1830s

Music cover, Comin in on a Wing and a Prayer, WW2
Music cover, Comin in on a Wing and a Prayer, RAF Battle of Britain song with words by Harold Adamson, music by Jimmy McHugh and revised words by Frederick Day. 1943

David Lloyd George, Liberal politician
David Lloyd George (1863-1945), British Liberal politician, seen here at the time of the 1900 General Election. 1900

Cartoon, Ws Penley, actor as Charleys Aunt. 1893

J M Barrie, Scottish novelist and playwright
Caricature, J M Barrie, Scottish novelist and playwright. 1893

Charles Wyndham, theatre manager, with a miniature version of the actor David Garrick on his head. 1893

The Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam), Nevada, USA
Nevada Wing of the Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam), Nevada, USA -- power house as seen from the visitors gallery. Date: 1940s

Bystanders on the Riviera - E. G. Oakley Beuttler & wife
Wing-Commander aand Mrs E. G. Oakley-Beuttler enjoying the Riviera sunshine in Cannes. Beuttler was a humorous artist and regular contributor to The Bystander magazine. Date: 1931

Destruction of Queens College, Cork, Ireland 1862
Western wing of Queens College, Cork was completely burnt to the ground. Date: 1862

Sir Ernest Shackleton, polar explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic

Adolf Max, Burgomaster of Brussels, 11 May 1922. 1922

Thomas Power O Connor, Irish MP
Thomas Power O Connor (1848-1929), Irish journalist and nationalist MP, seen here at the BBC for the radio broadcast of his Reminiscences of 45 years in the House of Commons. 1923

BBC Radio broadcaster R F Palmer (Uncle Rex)
BBC Radio broadcaster R F Palmer, known affectionately as Uncle Rex. 1923

Karl Benz, German engine designer and engineer
Karl Benz (1844-1929), German engine designer and engineer. early 20th century

Jerome K Jerome, writer. late 19th century

Boy riding a turkey on a Thanksgiving postcard
Boy riding on the back of a large turkey on a Thanksgiving postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Lord Hawke, cricketer. circa 1897

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