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Subject Birds Digitised Content No Level [40] File

1. 1822.b.2(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
1822.b.2(7)
Title:
Photographie zoologique publiée par L. Rousseau et A. Devéria. Pl. VII. Oiseaux Gallinacés, Gre. Pintade … du Cap du Bonne-Espérance … Photographer: Mante
Scope & Content:
Genre: Scientific Photography Livraison 2. Photo-engraving (Niépce de Saint-Victor's bitumen process) of a South African guineafowl.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1854
Extent:
1 item

2. Add Or 2442

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2442
Title:
Bird-catcher and wife selling small birds and peacocks.
Scope & Content:
Bird-catcher and wife selling small birds and peacocks.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

3. Add Or 2837

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2837
Title:
Pigeons
Scope & Content:
Pigeons. Inscribed on reverse: ‘A lady amusing herself upon a terrace flying pidgeons. This also may be the figure of a dancing Girl.’ 159 by 106 mm; page 264 by 197 mm. A lady on a terrace beside a pigeon-house with perch.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

4. Add Or 3008

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3008
Title:
Wood Snipe (Capella nemoricola).
Scope & Content:
Wood Snipe ‘(Capella nemoricola).’ 5.75 by 4.25 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

5. Add Or 3009

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3009
Title:
Grey-headed Lapwing (Microsarcops cinereus).
Scope & Content:
Grey-headed Lapwing ‘(Microsarcops cinereus).’ 5.75 by 4.25ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

6. Add Or 3129, f.1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3129, f.1
Title:
Gold formal landscape with animals. Librarians' seals and inscriptions.
Scope & Content:
Formal landscape with trees birds and flowers, and deer grazing; clouds at top. Mughal, c.1635-40. Guard page executed in gold, with inscriptions. 325 by 235 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1630-1640
Extent:
1 Item

7. Add Or 3129, f.1v

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3129, f.1v
Title:
Gold formal landscape with animals.
Scope & Content:
Formal landscape of trees and flowers with deer, birds and a lion; clouds at top. Mughal. c.1635-40. Guard page executed in gold 325 by 235 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1630-1640
Extent:
1 Item

8. Add Or 3129, f.2

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3129, f.2
Title:
Gold formal landscape with animals. Dara Shikoh's dedicatory inscription to Nadira Banu Begum.
Scope & Content:
Formal landscape of trees and flowers with deer, birds, lynxes, foxes and lions; clouds at top. Mughal, c.1630-40. Executed in gold, with an inscription (‘see above)’ which has been obliterated in gold; the gold has subsequently worn away, particularly over the black ink o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1630-1640
Extent:
1 Item

9. Add Or 3129, f.8

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3129, f.8
Title:
A bustard standing by water
Scope & Content:
A bustard stands on grassland by water, looking to the right; birds and cloudy sky above. Attributed to Artist B, Mughal, c 1635. Gouache; background not entirely coloured. 185 by 113 mm. Reproduced: Smith (1911), pl.CXX. NOTE: A later version of th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1630-1640
Extent:
1 Item

10. Add Or 3129, f.9v

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3129, f.9v
Title:
A night-heron with a pink lily
Scope & Content:
A night heron (‘Nycticorax nycticorax nicticorax,’ Linn.) stands with its feet in water, facing left; a pink lily grows on the left. Mughal, c.1635. Gouache; background not entirely coloured. 165 by 102 mm. Reproduced: Brown (1925), pl.LV, fig.2.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1630-1640
Extent:
1 Item