Histoire Naturelle des Poisson d'eau Douce
A hard backed book called Histoire Naturelle des Poisson d'eau Douce. It contains coloured plates of European freshwater fish with descriptions in English and French, 1839.
Histoire naturelle et Raisonne des differens Oisaux que Habitent le Globe
A hard backed book called Histoire Naturelle et Raisonne des differens Oisaux que Habitent le Glose. It contains hand coloured engravings of birds with descriptive text, 1773.
History of the Birds of New Zealand
Volume one of a hard backed book containing engravings and coloured plates of New Zealand birds with descriptive text, 1888.
History of the Birds of New Zealand
Volume two of hard backed book containing engravings and coloured plates of New Zealand birds with descriptive text, 1888.
In The Reeds
Gladys Orton (fl. 1914-1929)
In The Reeds, 1911
Watercolour on paper
265mm x 180mm
A river scene with three ducks in flight. This painting is also known as Ducks in Flight Over River.
Jodocus Hondius, America, 1619, Map of the Americas - detail, a galleon and a flying fish, off the coast of Brazil.
Many of Shakespeare's contemporaries sailed to America.
English ships were famed for their ease of manoeuvrability and sea-worthiness, on which sailors and explorers depended as they travelled to America ...
Jodocus Hondius, America, 1619, Map of the Americas - detail, creature off the coast of California. [Probably a diving whale's tail]
The ocean : a place of danger for Shakespeare’s contemporaries.
Ships returning to England after travel around the world with Francis Drake, or across the Atlantic with Walter Raleigh, brought ...
Jodocus Hondius, America, 1619, Map of the Americas - detail, exotic bird and fish.
Stories of strange birds and beasts were brought back to Shakespeare’s London.
In Shakespeare's The Tempest Trinculo, finding 'the monstrous' Caliban on the beach speculates on how an Englishman ...
Jodocus Hondius, America, 1619, Map of the Americas - detail, Flying fish (a real species) and an unidentified creature.
Sea monsters were legendary for Shakespeare's contemporaries.
In The Tempest (2,2, lines 24-40) Trinculo imagines he has found a sea-monster when he discovers Caliban hiding from the approaching storm ...
Jodocus Hondius, America, 1619, Map of the Americas - detail, The Pacific Ocean and Solomon Islands, showing a galleon and a sea creature, probably a whale.
Ships from Shakespeare’s England explored the world.
The sailing vessels that traded up the river Thames to London and set off from the English Channel, or from West country ports, were familiar ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - Goosetree [barnacles], detail, p.1391, detail.
Truth and Myth in Shakespeare's books of reference: The Barnacle Goose Tree.
Shakespeare includes, in The Winter's Tale (4.4), a similar myth to Gerarde’s tale of a barnacle-goose tree in the ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - Goosetree [Barnakle tree], p.1391.
The Elizabethan myth of the goose-tree.
Myth and legend, passed on by word of mouth until it was written down and becomes almost a fact, included the story that Gerarde records at the end of his herbal, ...
Luddington. River Avon
Swans on the River Avon at Luddington. 1900s
Natural History of English Insects
A hard backed book called A Natural History of English Insects which contains illustrations and descriptions of English insects. The illustrations are engravings hand-coloured by the author, 1749.
Nell the Rat Hunter
This is an oil painting on canvas depicting a dog rat-catching with two men in a country setting. In the bottom left corner is an inscription which reads 'by Jno. Whitehead 1852' and there is also a ...
Newbold Comyn, Leamington Spa
Black and white photograph 145mm x 200mm This photograph features a landscape view of Newbold Comyn, Leamington Spa. Cattle can be seen grazing in the distance. © Courtesy of the Leamington Spa Courier...
Nine Angry Bulls
This is an oil painting on canvas depicting bulls disturbed by a hare. It is by an artist of the English School dating from about 1870. A horserider and two walkers have been disturbed by the bulls running ...
One Fish Alone In Water
Sir Terry Frost (13th October 1915 - 1 September 2003) One Fish Alone In Water, 1997 Etching with added pen and ink 375mm x 565mm Line drawing of a fish, in the centre of a landscape-orientated image, ...