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This week is all about different types of We're starting off with this beautiful linen postcard from the Tibbals Collection featuring "A glimpse of Sarasota Bay, Sarasota, Florida".

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2020-07-21

On July’s theme, 2 paintings from the collection . Augustine Henry travelled to China, where he worked in the Imperial Customs Service. A renowned botanist-the mountain goral was named in his honour, Kemas henryanus.

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2020-07-03

The Darial Gorge by Sir Robert Ker Porter, ‘‘I had time sufficient... to attempt making a sketch or two of the objects around me… but no pencil can convey, nor pen describe, the grandeur of the scene." (Travels, p. 73) https://t.co/LJp7m2BvjZ

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2020-07-02

We missed yesterday! Our are truly international: from the depiction of avocado on the island of St Vincent to that of a red panda in Nepal.
Discover more on our archives catalogue https://t.co/ChDn3Bk9k8

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2020-06-11

These beautiful watercolours of exotic are by artist & colour merchant John Harrison Scott whose family resided at Hersham Lodge nr Esher. Just two of many illustrations from his scrapbook compiled c1820s-1840s (SHC ref 4220/1) https://t.co/aQ0h7w6Zul

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2020-05-20

Of all the weird & wonderful things in government archives this must be one of the quirkiest: an underwater wedding scene showing a seahorse marrying a
📂 INF 3/1017 https://t.co/zYHLfP17FZ

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2020-05-20

Honourable mention also goes to Smoker, used as a sniffer dog on the building site of New Scotland Yard during the Whitehall Mystery of 1888. (5/n)

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2020-05-18

B is for Busy Beavers on Herman Moll's 1715 map of British colonial territory in North America.
📂 WO 78/419/8 https://t.co/5CfHSVWkyc

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2020-05-18

from the NHSN Archive. How about this watercolour of the minute nudibranch (7mm) Embletonia pulchra by Albany Hancock. Named after local anatomist Dr Dennis Embleton https://t.co/UmrorhFxPX

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2020-04-23

This 2007 prescient cartoon by from 's collection highlights the climate crisis. The cartoonist & author's work is our next top 10 resource https://t.co/cOKoZ7E6UV

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2020-04-15

These strawberries in various stages of ripeness have us looking forward to summer already. The entire book of fruit and flower series images from Darrow and Brothers is full of luscious looking plates.

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2020-04-11

Day 9 - Exploring the wonderful watercolour landscape drawings of Mary Jane Hancock (1810-1896) today - Derwent Valley, Tynemouth & Jesmond Dene

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2020-04-09

(5) Lenski’s collection provides a wonderful opportunity for scholars, students, and writers to study her works, including changes between handwritten, typed, edited, and published versions. Her illustrations have notes about layout and size.

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2020-04-05

For this weeks here is a lovely sketch that was probably used for teaching purposes. It's based on specimens collected by Lyell & figured by Bunbury. Miller illustrated the published text....but these are very much 🔍🎨🌿

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2020-04-04

Sometimes reading room doubles as the only available work surface! Here, a massive processing project is underway to get the Ueckert photo collection ready for research. Also shown, a map case with neatly labeled poster folders.

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2020-04-02

The poster features May Wirth, one of the most famous equestrian circus performers of her day. Her act highlighted her ability to do somersaults forwards and backwards on a running horse.

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2020-03-31

We won't lie, it was ...challenging... to find an image for from home. BUT we did it. Behold this 1st edition plan of Chichester workhouse. Bed & board in the workhouse usually entailed a day or more of picking oakum rope as payment.

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2020-03-23

Found in the archive: drawings made when planning new galleries for the Natural Sciences collections in the 1960s/1970s.

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2020-03-12

Lido was opened by the suitably attired Mayor William Harvey, 21 Jun 1933! The Lido was the largest project in Harvey’s Work Fund for the town’s unemployed, supported by donations from local people. 50,000 visitors came in the opening 3 weeks

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2020-03-10