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 / 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...

Pete Cairns / Victorian scarecrows - mock man and woman with bicycles, Strathspey, Scotland, UK

Gavin Hellier / Colourfully painted Victorian house steps in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, California, USA 2011

Gavin Hellier / Colourfully painted Victorian houses in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, California, USA 2011

Gavin Hellier / Typical Victorian House front, San Francisco, California, USA 2011

Ann & Steve Toon / Two antique rhino horns mounted by renowned Victorian taxidermist Rowland Ward are found among a hoard of trophy animals in the attic of a Scottish museum, Scotland, UK, May 2012. Editorial use only

Ernie Janes / Victorian vegetable seed packets, chart, UK

Ernie Janes / Horse drawn hay rake, UK

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Visitor Centre and Victorian Villas in Stanley, capital of the Falkland Islands, 2009.

Niall Benvie / Traditional red Victorian postbox cut into a rock, Redpoint, Wester Ross, Scotland, October

DAVID TIPLING / Victorian collection of stuffed birds from Earlham, Norfolk, UK

Jane Burton / Domestic Cat {Felis catus} 9-week, Blue bicolour persian kitten 'Cobweb II' and sister 'Coriander' with Brindle teddy bear and Victorian Staffordshire wash-stand set.

Jane Burton / Domestic Cat {Felis catus} Tabby tortoiseshell looking out of a broken pane in an ivy-grown window of a deserted Victorian house.

Jane Burton / Domestic Cat {Felis catus} 9-week, Blue bicolour persian kitten 'Cobweb II' with Brindle teddy bear and Victorian Staffordshire wash-stand set.

Paul D Stewart / High resolution steel engraving portrait of Charles Darwin by C.Cook, printed by William Mackenzie, the Scottish printer and publisher in 1899. It appears in James Taylor's 'The Victorian Empire' and...

Paul D Stewart / Photographic portrait of Richard Owen (20, July 1804- 18 December 1892). Woodburytype photograph by Lock & Whitfield published in 'Men or Mark' 1878. Owen was a comparative anatomist and palaeontologi...

Paul D Stewart / Illustrated portraits of Richard Owen (20, July 1804- 18 December 1892) and Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 - 29 June 1895). Linley Sambourne's illustration for the new 1885 Macmillan edition of Kings...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Richard Owen (20, July 1804- 18 December 1892); 1883 portrait in his home study for The Graphic magazine, in the year he retired from the BMNH. Owen was a comparative anatomist and palaeon...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Richard Owen (20, July 1804- 18 December 1892), 1889 mezzotint by H.J. Thaddeus with contemporary face but pose taken from an earlier 1852 photograph with dinosaur. Owen was a comparative...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Trilobite (Phacops latifrons) enrolled and open, from 'Organization of the Trilobites' by Hermann Burmeister, appearing in the Ray Society translation of his work published in 1846. Th...

Paul D Stewart / Trilobite (Asaphus platycephalus) from 'Organization of the Trilobites' by Hermann Burmeister, appearing in the Ray Society translation of his work published in 1846. The Illustrations and engravings...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Trilobite (Homalonotus armatus) from 'Organization of the Trilobites' by Hermann Burmeister, appearing in the Ray Society translation of his work published in 1846. The illustrations a...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Richard Owen and Moa leg (20, July 1804 - 18 December 1892) photo-engraved by Walker and Boutall around 1894 from an 1846 Daguerrotype. Owen was a comparative anatomist and palaeontologist...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Richard Owen (20, July 1804 - 18 December 1892), 1894 engraving from an 1840s painting by Pickersgill, later hand colouring. Owen was a comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. He coined...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration from 'The Anniversary of the Literary Fun 1836' by Thomas Hood, published by Baily and Co, Cornhill. The reputation of academics for absent mindedness, eccentricity, and absorbtion in the...

Paul D Stewart / 1840 Cardinal click beetle (Elater rufipennis now Ampedus rufipennis) collected by F.W. Hope that formed part of the Oxford Museum founding entomology collection until deaccession. Hope and Westwood a...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Richard Owen (20 July 1804 - 18 December 1892). 1850 portrait by Thomas Herbert Maguire lithographed by M&H Hanhart. Part of the Portraits of the Honarary members of the Ipswich Museum col...

Paul D Stewart / 1854 illustration of Crystal Palace at its Sydenham site, with Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins' dinosaur sculptures in the foreground. 11cm x 16.3 cm. Miniature colour print by the George Baxter patent pr...

Paul D Stewart / 1855 Cartoon from Punch's Almanac of that year, ascribed to John Leech, captioned 'A visit to the antediluvian reptiles at Sydenham - master Tom strongly objects to having his mind improved'. Clockwis...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of 'The effects of a hearty dinner after visiting the Antediluvian Department at the Crystal Palace' from Punch, Volume 28, 1855. The restorations of dinosaurs at the Crystal Palace in Sy...

Paul D Stewart / 1856 portrait of Hugh Miller, Scottish geologist and palaeontologist, born 1802 died 1856. Photographic frontispiece of author by J.G. Tunny in some first editions of Miller's posthumous 1857 book 'Te...

Onne van der Wal / 15 metre long Victorian gaff-rigged cutter, "Partridge", the America's Cup Jubilee, Isle of Wight, 2001. Initially launched on 22 June, 1885, built at Camper & Nicholsons shipyard in Gosport. ^^^ Youn...