Uri Golman / Forest reindeer, (Rangifer tarandus fennicus) in velvet, Viiksimo, Kuhmo region. Finland, July. Rare subspecies which were nearly extinct in the 19th Century.

Adrian Davies / Anti-fracking protest, sign attached to hedge, Balcombe, West Sussex, England. 19th August 2013.

Paul D Stewart / Lithograph with contemporary colouring, continental version of the wallchart produced by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins for the Department of Science and Art 1862. It is entitled 'Enaliosauria, or marine...

Paul D Stewart / Lithograph with contemporary colouring, continental version of the last wallchart produced by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins for the Department of Science and Art 1862. It is entitled 'Pachydermata and C...

Paul D Stewart / Chromolithograph illustration of Cromagnon 'Skull of an old man' Plate 1, Section C. Edouard Lartet and Henry Christy. 'Reliquiae Aquitanicae' 1865-1875, Williams and Norgate, London 1875..

Paul D Stewart / 1881 portrait of Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882) English Naturalist and author of the Origin of Species. 1922 Hand coloured portrait aquatint of Darwin by G. Sidney Hunt after...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of vivid colour lithograph for 'Dr. Schubert's Naturgeschichte - Geologie, Mineralreich, Palaontologie'. Published 1888 in Stuttgart by J.F. Shreiber, the palaeontology section by Dr. Fri...

Paul D Stewart / Landscape of the Triassic coastal environment with reconstructions of dinosaurs and marine reptiles, 'Dr. Schubert's Naturgeschichte - Geologie, Mineralreich, Palaontologie'. Published in Stuttgart 18...

Paul D Stewart / Restoration of the Iguanodon by Alice B. Woodward from Lydekker's The Royal Natural History' Frederick Warne and co, 1896. This is one of the first reconstructions to correctly show the Iguanodon's th...

Paul D Stewart / Male peacock (Pavo cristatus) displaying his ocellated tail feathers.

Paul D Stewart / Male Large Blue Butterfly (Maculinea eutryphon / arion) collected in 1865. It is here surrounded by other extant UK blue butterfly species. The large Blue was first recorded as a British species in 17...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of trilobuite (Paradoxides bohemicus), Plate 1. From 'Organization of the Trilobites' by Hermann Burmeister, appearing in the Ray Society translation of his work published in 1846. The Il...

Paul D Stewart / Engraving of an ape-like cave man accompanying an article by Boitard in the French 'Magasin Universel' (April 1838). This is the earliest reconstruction of a pre-historic human. It is striking that it...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of 'The Entomologist'. Rare copper print with original hand colouring, drawn by George Spratt, printed by George Madely, and sold individually as part of a series through Charles Tilt's F...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Giant Octopus (Octopus dofleini) attacking a ship, 1815 copperplate engraving from Bertuch's 'Bilderbuch fur kinder' 16 plate 5. with contemporary colour. 'Colosal Polypus' (octopus) a...

Paul D Stewart / Copperplate engraving of rays with contemporary hand colouring from 'Bilderbuch fur Kinder' by F.J. Bertuch, Weimar, 1795. This book set out to explain and illustrate a range of topics for children.

Paul D Stewart / Copperplate engraving of a Stag Beetle (Lucanus cervus), with hand colouring possibly by Donovan himself. While most plates were thinly coloured to tint the interstices of the lines of the engraving b...

Paul D Stewart / A rare British broadsheet illustration with contemporary hand colouring, drawn and engraved by John Emslie and published by James Reynolds in 1849. It shows reconstructions of extinct creatures in the...

Paul D Stewart / 1853 illustration of Gorilla, contemporary coloured copperplate engraving from 'Das Buch der Welt' John Weik, Stuttgart. The lowland Gorilla was first accurately described outside Africa by the missio...

Paul D Stewart / Skull of Moa or Dinornis discovered by Mr. Walter Mantell on the North Island of New Zealand. Plate with later tinting, from Gideom Mantell's petrifactions and their teachings (1851) published by Henr...

Paul D Stewart / Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) from the Rev. Francis Orpen Morris' 'A History of British Birds' by the printer Benjamin Fawcett circa 1853. Morris was instrumental in founding the Royal Society for th...

Jean E. Roche / Aerial view of vineyards and fruit trees edged with Italian poplar trees, introduced to the Camargue during the 19th century and planted for protection against the wind, near Arles, Camargue, Southern...

Bristol City Museum / Great auk specimen - seabird hunted to extinction mid 19th century {Pinguinnus impennis}

Jack Dykinga / Flowering lupines (Lupinus sp.), brown-eyed primrose (Chylismia claviformis) and phacelia line the desert washes beneath the Sheephole Mountains. Mojave Trails National Monument, Mojave Desert, Califo...

Philippe Clement / Croft House Museum, restored straw-thatched cottage at Boddam, Dunrossness, Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK, May 2018

Philippe Clement / Boat-roofed shed at the Croft House Museum , Boddam, Dunrossness, Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK, May 2018

Philippe Clement / Box bed in the Croft House Museum / Crofthouse Museum, restored 19th century cottage at Boddam, Dunrossness, Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK, May 2018

Philippe Clement / Living room in the Croft House Museum / Crofthouse Museum, restored 19th century cottage at Boddam, Dunrossness, Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK, May 2018

Philippe Clement / Bedroom in the Croft House Museum restored 19th century cottage at Boddam, Dunrossness, Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK, May 2018

Matthew Maran / Beech trees (Fagus sylvatica) in forest around Woodbury Castle Scheduled Monument, planted in the early 19th century, East Devon, England, UK.

Ernie Janes / Plantation Garden, a restored Victorian town garden, Earlham Road, Norwich Norfolk. England, UK, August 2017.

Ernie Janes / Plantation Garden, a restored Victorian town garden, Earlham Road, Norwich Norfolk. England, UK, August 2017.

Philippe Clement / 19th century Moirlanich Longhouse, cruck-framed lime-washed Scottish cottage with cattle byre in Glen Lochay near Killin, Stirling, Scotland, UK, June 2017

Bernard Castelein / Cementerio de trenes or the Train Cemetry with old trains dating back to the 19th centuary, Uyubi, Altiplano, Bolivia. April 2017.

Juan Carlos Munoz / Dromore Castle, Kenmare River Cruise, Kenmare, Iveragh Peninsula, County Kerry, Republic of Ireland. September 2015.

Paul D Stewart / Photograph of Charles Darwin taken by Lock & Whitfield in 1877 and published in' Men of Mark' 1878.

Paul D Stewart / Lithograph of the Moody Footmark Quarry in South Hadley, where Pliny Moody discovered the very first fossil tracks in 1802. From Hitchcock, Edward. Ichnology of New England. A Report on the Sandstone...

Paul D Stewart / Lithograph of a slab with multiple dinosaur trackways. From 'Ichnology of New England. A Report on the Sandstone of the Connecticut Valley, especially its Fossil Footmarks'. Boston: William White, 185...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Monitor lizard (Lacerta monitor) now known as the Nile monitor (Varanus niloticus) from J. Frid Gmelin and Carl Linnaeus (posthumous). 'A Genuine and Universal System of Natural Histo...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Hornets and Wasps, from Arcana entomologica, or, Illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects by J.O. Westwood, 1845.

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Goliath Beetle (Goliathus goliatus) and Chafer beetles, from Arcana entomologica, or, Illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects by J.O. Westwood, 1845

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of extinct Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) by the French naturalist and physician Jean-Emmanuel-Marie Le Maout (1799-1877), published in Les Trois Regnes de la Nature, 1853.

Paul D Stewart / Australasian fauna by Gustav Mutzel, 1892 - published in 'Meyer's Conversations Lexicon' of 1902. Including a Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), Cassowary (Casuarius), Echidna (Tachyglossidae), Duck...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of a Vampire bat (Vespertilio vampyrus) by Heath published 1800 in George Shaw 'General Zoology or Systematic Zoology', in which the Vampire bats feeding habits are described. However th...

Paul D Stewart / Copperplate illustration of Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) by W. Read with later hand colouring . From 'Nature Displayed in the Heavens and on Earth' by Simeon Shaw 1823

Paul D Stewart / Copperplate illustration of Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) by W. Read with later hand colouring. From 'Nature Displayed in the Heavens and on Earth' by Simeon Shaw 1823

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Peeping frog - now commonly called Northern Leopard frog (Rana pipiens) plate by Hill. From George Shaw 'General Zoology or Systematic Natural History 1802.

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of extinct Quagga (Equus quagga quagga) by Christian von Schreber, from 'Die Sauetheire in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen' 1883.

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Superb bird of paradise (Lophorina superba) displaying to female, this display is factually wrong as the display was not witnessed until many years later. Illustration by Richard Bowd...

Paul D Stewart / Historical illustration showing the displays of various birds of paradise: Red bird-of-paradise (Paradisea rubra), Superb bird of paradise (Lophorina superba), Wilson's bird of paradise (Cicinnurus re...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of various beetles engraving by Johann Susemihl from Lorenz Oken's 'Insekten' volume from 1843, from the series 'Allgemeine Naturgeschichte fur alle Stande'.

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of four New World monkeys (Atelidae) Copperplate engraving with contemporary hand colouring from 'Bilderbuch fur Kinder' by F.J. Bertuch, Weimar, circa 1820.

Paul D Stewart / Historical illustration of Common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) Pierre Denys de Montfort engraving from 'Histoire Naturelle Generale et Particuliere des Mollusques', 1801-1802.

Paul D Stewart / Historical illustration of Common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) and Common squid (Loligo vulgaris) Pierre Denys de Montfort engraving from 'Histoire Naturelle Generale et Particuliere des Mollusques', 1...

Paul D Stewart / Historical illustration of Common squid (Loligo vulgaris) Pierre Denys de Montfort engraving from 'Histoire Naturelle Generale et Particuliere des Mollusques', 1801-1802.

Paul D Stewart / Historical illustration of Dugong skull from late 18th century. The most notable characteristic of the dugong skull is its deflected (down-turned) rostrum, an evolutionary adaptation to its role as a...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1 August 1744 - 18 December 1829) Lamarck was a french pre-Darwinian advocate of evolution (transmutation) and an influential invertebrate taxonomist.

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817- 1912) botanist, by George Richmond, reproduced in Hooker's ' Life and Letters'. Hooker was a good friend of Darwin and the director of Kew Gardens.

Paul D Stewart / Duck billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) engraved by W. Lizars. From 'The Natural History of Marsupialia or Pouched Animals' 1841 by G.R. Waterhouse.

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Sir Joseph Hooker (1817-1912) English botanist in middle age.

Paul D Stewart / Sepia photograph of Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), English philosopher, 1860s. Spencer was a journalist who published his best known work Principals of Psychology in which he applied Darwin's ideas on e...

Paul D Stewart / Frontispiece to Alexander Winchell's 'Preadamites or a demonstration of the existence of men before Adam', 1880. Winchell was a theistic evolutionist who believed that Adam in the bible was not relate...

Paul D Stewart / Historical illustration of humans and primates from Naturliche Schopfungsgeschichte (2nd edition) by Ernst Haeckel, 1870. Haekel was a leading proponent of what is now described as scientific racism a...

Paul D Stewart / Historical illustration of humans from Naturliche Schopfungsgeschichte (2nd edition) by Ernst Haeckel, 1870. Haekel was a leading proponent of what is now described as scientific racism and believed i...

Paul D Stewart / Historical illustration of primates from Naturliche Schopfungsgeschichte (2nd edition) by Ernst Haeckel, 1870. Haekel was a leading proponent of what is now described as scientific racism and believed...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Great auk (Pinguinus impennis) swimming, from Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant's book 'British Zoology' 1776 .This species, now extinct was last sighted in 1852 on the Grand Banks of Ne...

Paul D Stewart / 'The Falkland Island Aguara dog' the extinct Falkland wolf (Canis antarctus / Dusicyon australis) plate 23 steel engraving with hand colouring as issued. From 'Natural History of Dogs' Charles Hamilt...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Edward Forbes (1815 - 1854). British naturalist, pioneer of biogeography, he studied the plant and animal life of the British Isles in the context of geological changes.

Paul D Stewart / Antique copper plate illustration of a Dodo (Raphys cucullatus) 'Zoological Lectures' by George Shaw, 1809, illustrated by Mrs Griffith.

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Samoan tooth billed pigeon (Didunculus strigirostris) antique folio lithograph Published 1844-49, for 'The Genera of Birds.' by George Edward Gray. Illustrated by David William Mitchel...

Paul D Stewart / Darwin in the Woods - historical cartoon of Charles Darwin entitled 'Natural Selection' by Frederick Waddy from his 'Cartoon portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day' 1873.

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of George Cuvier holding a fossil fish. George Cuvier was a naturalist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist (1769 - 1832).

Paul D Stewart / Historical illustration of extinct Puri tribe from North Coast of South America. Mother and child, and man in hammock, with poison dart frog held over fire to collect its toxin, used for poison darts...

Paul D Stewart / Long eared bat (Plecotus sp.) with original hand colour, from Bechstein 'Getreue Abbildungen Naturhistorischer', 1796.

Paul D Stewart / Historical illustration of local man hunting Barbary lion (Panthera leo leo) 1853 Engraving. Extinct in the wild, with possible zoo specimens claimed to be pure Barbary lion.

Paul D Stewart / Illustrations of Southern, Eastern and Spanish Festoon butterfly (Zerynthia spp.) by an unidentified European Artist, 1875.

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Apollo butterflies (Parnassius apollo) and the False Apollo (Parnassius mnemosyne) as well as chrysalis and Sedum foodplant, By unknown European artist, 1875.

Paul D Stewart / Series of paintings of Apollo butterflies (Parnassius apollo) showing variation between subspecies. By unknown European artist, from 1875.

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Carolina parrot (Conuropsis carolinensis) from W. T. Greene Parrots In Captivity, George Bell and Sons, 1884 - 1887. Wood engraving by Benjamin Fawcett after drawings by A.F. Lydon. Th...

Gary K. Smith / Chester city center, Cheshire, England UK. September 2015.

Uri Golman / Forest reindeer, (Rangifer tarandus fennicus) Viiksimo, Kuhmo region. Finland, July. Rare subspecies which were nearly extinct in the 19th Century.

Kristel Richard / Sue Day, in a Victorian dress, tows with her draft horse, Maria, a 1814 wooden narrowboat, on the canals, near Marple, Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. July 2015.

Kristel Richard / Sue Day, in a Victorian dress, drives her draft horse through a horse tunnel to tow, Maria, a 1814 wooden narrowboat, on the canals, near Marple, Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester,...

Kristel Richard / Sue Day, in a Victorian dress, harnesses her draft horse to tow Maria, a 1814 wooden narrowboat, on the canals, near Marple, Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. July 2015.

Kristel Richard / Sue Day, in a Victorian dress, towing, with her draft horse, Maria, a 1814 wooden narrowboat, on the canals, near Marple, Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. June 2015.

Kristel Richard / Sue Day, in a Victorian dress, tows with her draft horse, Maria, a 1814 wooden narrowboat, on the canals, near Marple, Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. July 2015.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / 19th century colonial architecture, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 2004-2005.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / 19th century colonial architecture, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 2004-2005.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Local people in street scene, buildings typical 19th century colonial architecture, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 2004-2005.

David Tipling / Illustration of Woodcock (Scolopax minor) from 1861 entitled Game birds of America by H.M. Clay.

David Tipling / 19th century stained glass window in St Cuthbert's Chapel on Inner Farne Island, Northumberland depicting the Pelican-in-her-piety. The Pelican-in-her-Piety is an allegorical depiction of Jesus Chris...

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Herero woman in traditional dress - influenced by Victorian missionaries, Kaokoland, Namibia. February 2005

Adrian Davies / Anti-fracking protest, policemen guarding entrance to test drilling sight, Balcombe, West Sussex, England. 19th August 2013.

Adrian Davies / Chemical suit with signs, at anti-fracking protest, Balcombe, West Sussex, England. 19th August 2013.

Adrian Davies / Anti-fracking protest signs, Balcombe, West Sussex, England. 19th August 2013.

Adrian Davies / Anti-fracking protest, sign attached to hedge, Balcombe, West Sussex, England. 19th August 2013.