Wood Collection (#17)

Wood warbler, Phylloscopus sibilatrix, and moorhen, Gallinula chloropus Pouillot et poule d eau. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by Adolph Fries from Felix-Edouard

Wood pigeon, common pigeon and turtle dove
Wood pigeon, Columba palumbus, common pigeon, Columba livia, and turtle dove, Streptopelia risoria. Pigeon ramier, biset, tourterelle

Pierid butterflies
Common jezebel, Delias eucharis 1, cattleheart white, Archonias brassolis 2, tiger mimic white, Dismorphia amphione 3, wood white, Leptidea sinapis 4

Hedgehog mushroom, Hydnum repandum
Sweet tooth, wood hedgehog or hedgehog mushroom, Hydnum repandum. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by William Hamilton Gibson from his book Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms, Harper

Francois Peron examining an aborginal tomb on Maria Island, Tasmania. Complete (left), half opened (right) and dismantled (centre). The grave consists of a cone of wooden fibre over long poles

Plants of Sri Lanka: tamarind 1, sago palm 2, cassia 3 and teak 4. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Singer, writer, and vaidya or physician with wood carving
Singer or kan, writer or kayastha, and vaidya or physician with wood carving. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri after Francois Solvyns from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Lapps in a hut of beams covered with skins
A family of Lapps around a fire in a hut made of wood beams covered with animal skins. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient

Native American (Timucuan) village in Florida, protected by a stockade of wooden poles. From an illustration by John White

Gaucho cowboys of the Tucuman, Argentina
Gaucho cowboys of the Tucuman, River Plate, Argentina. They wear striped ponchos and trousers, long hair in fur hats, carve wood with knives, while resting near their wagons

Village scene of the Native Americans of Nootka Sound
Native Americans of Nootka Sound bringing kayaks and fishing boats to shore in front of large houses of cedar wood. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Tools and utensils of the Botocudo people, Brazil. Kindle stick 2, bag 3, codpiece 4, necklace 5, knife 6, bone dagger to pierce coconuts 7, wooden water container 8

Lengua or Juiadge people of Paraguay, with their distinctive lip plugs or barbotto. Male hunters with bow, arrows and quiver, women roasting meat on a fire

Sessile oak, Quercus petraea (Durmast oak, Quercus sessiliflora). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes

Common British oak tree, Quercus robur. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

Box tree, Buxus sempervirens. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816

Willem Bontekoes illustration of the dodo
Willem Ysbrantsz Bontekoes illustration of the dodo, from his Voyage, 1646. Wood engraving from Hugh Edwin Strickland and Alexander Gordon Melvilles The Dodo and its Kindred, London, Reeve

Rodrigues solitaire, Pezophaps solitaria
Illustration of a Rodrigues solitaire, Pezophaps solitaria, by Francois Leguat from his Voyage, published 1708. Wood engraving from Hugh Edwin Strickland and Alexander Gordon Melvilles The Dodo

Willem Pisos illustration of the dodo, 1658
Willem Pisos illustration of the dodo, from Gulielmi Pisonis Medici Amstelaedamensis, 1658. Wood engraving from Hugh Edwin Strickland and Alexander Gordon Melvilles The Dodo and its Kindred, London

Bonsai oxalis, Oxalis megalorrhiza (Red-edged wood sorrel, Oxalis rubrocincta). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Edwards Botanical

Cudjoe wood, Bonellia macrocarpa (Large capsuled jacquinia, Jacquinia macrocarpa). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S

Siberian squill or wood squill, Scilla siberica (Few-flowered squill, Scilla amoenula). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by John Curtis from William Curtis

Lobed-leaved wood sorrel, Oxalis lobata. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by John Curtis from William Curtis Botanical Magazine, Samuel Curtis, London, 1823

Goat s-foot wood sorrel, Oxalis caprina. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sansom after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards rom William Curtis Botanical Magazine, London, 1793

Sawyers cutting timber into planks with a large saw in a saw-pit. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Tabart, London, 1810

Wheelwright hammering a metal cover onto a wooden wheel in a yard. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818

Cinnamon and camphor trees
True cinnamon, Cinnamomum verum 1, and camphor tree, Cinnamomum camphora 2 Laurus camphora. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Ceylon satinwood and cashew nut trees
Ceylon satinwood, Chloroxylon swietenia, vulnerable 1, and cashew nut, Anacardium occidentale 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Red sanders wood, red sandalwood or chandam, Pterocarpus santalinus. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley

Jamaica quassia, Picrasma excelsa
Jamaica quassia or bitter wood, Picrasma excelsa (Picraena excelsa). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley

White wood or wild cinnamon, Canella winterana (Canella alba). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants

Greenheart, Chlorocardium rodiei (Nectandra rodioei). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London

White wood, white samet or cajuput, Melaleuca cajuputi (Melaleuca minor). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley

Interior of a Kamchatka dwelling, eastern Russia. Date: circa 1779

Method of moving a house in America, by elevating it on blocks of wood, before moving it to its new location. Date: 1842

Natives of Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island, Canada, visited by Captain Cooks expedition. Date: circa 1770s

View inside a copper and lead factory, London
View inside the Pontifex and Wood copper and lead factory, Shoe Lane, London. Date: 1842

Inside a cabinet piano, Broadwood piano factory, London 1842
The action or internal mechanism of a cabinet pianoforte, Broadwood piano factory, Horseferry Road, Westminster, London. 1842

Fret cutter at work, Broadwood piano factory, London
Fret cutter at work, Broadwood piano factory, Horseferry Road, Westminster, London. Date: 1842

Piano keys and action, Broadwood piano factory, London 1842
Square pianoforte keys and treble action, at the Broadwood piano factory, Horseferry Road, Westminster, London. 1842

Man at work, Broadwood piano factory, London 1842
Man at work cutting keys, at the Broadwood piano factory, Horseferry Road, Westminster, London. 1842

Scots firs, or Scots pines, Pinus sylvestris. Date: 1842

Ali Baba in the Wood
Black & white illustration from Ali Baba & the Forty Thieves. Artist: Aubrey Beardsley. Date: 1897

John J A Murphy (1888-1967). American wood engraver Date: circa 1928

Boy practising archery in a wood. Date: circa 1980s

Dining Room, The Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Dining Room, The Golden Nugget, Fremont Street, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Date: circa 1946

Saloon, The Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Saloon, The Golden Nugget, Fremont Street, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Date: circa 1946

Adverts, Lees, Anderson & Co, Lawson & Co, Scotland
Adverts for Lees, Anderson & Co, Engineers, Boilermakers and Shipbuilders, Govan, and Lawson & Co, building contractors, merchants, etc, Park Saw Mills, Govan, Glasgow, Scotland. 1905

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