Daytime Collection

William Smith Geological Map

Heathland
Original artwork for Heathland by Barbara Nicholson, signed B.E.N. copyright British Museum (Natural History) 1973, printed in England by Lund Humphries

Seven Champion Diving In LA
Los Angeles, California: June, 1937. Champion divers preparing to participate in the National Aquatic Show to be held at the Olympic Swimming Stadium in LA

Botaurus stellaris, Eurasian bittern

Pandion haliaetus, osprey
Plate 15 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

RIVERA, Diego (1886-1957). Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park, detail of mural, 1947-1948. MEXICO. Mexico City. Diego Rivera Web Museum. Central detail. Fresco on portable pannels

RIVERA, Diego. Man, Controller of
RIVERA, Diego (1886-1957). Man, Controller of the Universe. 1934. Right detail. Mexican Mural Painting. Fresco. MEXICO. FEDERAL DISTRICT. Mexico City. Fine Arts Palace

Ernest Hemingway Fishing
Sun Valley, Idaho: 1939 Author Ernest Hemingway holding two trout he has caught

Oriolus oriolus, Eurasian golden oriole
Plate 31 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 2 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Strigops habroptilus, kakapo
Watercolour by John Gerrard Keulemans (c. 1887-1905), from Sir Walter Lawry Bullers A history of the Birds of New Zealand (1887-88)

Cologne Cathedral, Cologne, Germany, UNESCO World Heritage Site, North Rhine Westphalia

Giant octopus
Plate 26 from Histoire naturelle des Mollusques by Count Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon, 1805

Pebble Beach Golf Course
Pebble Beach, California: c. 1950. The seventh hole at Pebble Beach Golf Course

Scene of devastation after flying bomb attack, WW2
A panoramic daytime scene of devastation following a flying bomb attack in London during the latter stages of the Second World War. Rescue workers look for buried casualties

Italy, Umbria, Orvieto

Costa Rica, Alajuela Province, La Fortuna, Tabacon Grand Spa Thermal Resort, Thermal Springs Heated By The Underground Magma Of The Arneal Volcano

Perseus and Medusa statue at Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence, Tuscany, Italy

BRYULLOV, Karl. The Horsewoman
BRYULLOV, Karl Pavlovitch (1799-1852). A Rider. 1832. Portrait of Giovanina and Amacilia Pacini, the Foster Children of Countess Yu. P. Samoilova. Romanticism. Oil on canvas. RUSSIA. MOSCOW. Moscow

Carduelis spinus, Eurasian siskin
Plate 37 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Hotel Annabelle in Pafos, Paphos, Cyprus

Noli Me Tangere, c1514. Artist: Titian
Noli Me Tangere, c1514. Saint Mary Magdalene encounters Christ after his resurrection. From the National Gallery, London

Ichthyosaurus, Plesiosaurus
Watercolour painting by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, (1809-1889). These marine reptiles live in Europe duing the early Jurassic period about 200 millions years ago

A fantasy illustration of marine reptiles
The Sea-Dragons as they lived. Frontispiece by John Martin from The Book of the Great Sea-Dragons by Thomas Hawkins, 1840

Falco rusticolus, gyrfalcon
Plate 13 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 1 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Moraine Lake, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

LIBYA. TRIPOLI. Leptis Magna. Forum of Septimius Severus. Forum built after the rise to the empire of Lucius Septimius Severus in 193. Sculptural detail with Gorgons head. Roman art. Early Empire

Sand and surf at Lumahai Beach, Island of Kauai, Hawaii USA
Sand and surf at Lumahai Beach, Island of Kauai, Hawaii, USA

Emberiza calandra, corn bunting
Plate 26 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Scottish Pine Forest poster with captions by Barbara Nicholson made for a printed wallchart. Signed B.EN, wallchart EB13, printed by Westerham Press, England

Neofelis nebulosa diardi, clouded leopard
Felis diardi. Plate from A Monograph of the Felidae, or Family of the Cats, 1833, by Daniel Giraud Elliot. One of 43 hand-coloured lithographs by Joseph Wolf (1820-1899) and Joseph Smit (1836-1929)

Muri Beach, Rarotonga, Cook Islands, South Pacific

Extinct marine reptiles
Sheet 1 of a series of posters called Extinct Animals by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins c. 1862. This collection of marine reptiles lived during the Jurassic period between 200

University of Oxford. College of the University and Queens College. Illustration in Vues d Optique (Perspective Views). Images to be seen through a zograscope

ANGELICO, Fra. The Annunciation Altarpiece
ANGELICO, Fra (1387-1455). The Annunciation. 1430s. Left lower detail of the predella, depicting the wedding between Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph. Renaissance art. Quattrocento. Tempera on wood

Mission San Xavier del Bac, Tohono O odham Indian Reservation, Tucson, Arizona

France, Cote d Azur, Villefranche sur Mer and Cap Ferrat

Scleromochlus were bipedal reptiles that grew to around 3 feet long. They lived around 200 million years during the end of the Triassic period. Illustration by Neave Parker

Diplodocus
Weighing around 20 tonnes & reaching up to 26 metres in length Diplodocus is one of the longest-known dinosaurs. It lived 155 to 145 million years ago during the Upper Jurassic

Polacanthus
This dinosaur was from the family of armoured skinned dinosaurs, the Ankylosaurs. It was around 14 feet in length living around 125 million years ago. Fossils have been found in the Isle of Wight, UK

Geological unconformity on the river Jed. Plate 3 from Theory of the Earth (1795) Vol. 1, by James Hutton

Heathland poster with captions by Barbara Nicholson, signed B.E.N. copyright British Museum (Natural History) 1973, printed in England by Lund Humphries

Leaf-cutter ants carrying pieces of leaf
Leaf-cutter ants transporting neatly extracted pieces of leaf. These ants derive from the rainforests of Central and South America

Phoeniconaias minor, lesser flamingo
Pencil and watercolour drawing by Claude Gibney Finch-Davies (1918) from his African birds sketchbook

Japanese Wisteria, Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, USA

Iguanodon and Hylaeosaurus
Sheet 3 of a series of posters by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins c. 1862, showing Iguanodon and Hylaeosaurus. Date: circa 1862

Skyline of Chicago, Illinois, USA

Sunset through silhouetted palm trees, Kona Coast, The Big Island, Hawaii

Nevada Fall, Half Dome and Liberty Cap, Yosemite National Park, California

Europe, Spain, Salamanca, relief sculpture of crest on university wall

Portugal, Lisbon, Alfama, View of Rooftops from Largo Portas do Sol

Annas Hummingbird, Calypte anna, female in flight feeding on Thistle, Paradise, Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona, USA, August

Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Golf Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Golf
California: c. 1953 Dean Martin appears to get the best of Jerry Lewis with his hand grabbing the top of the golf club

NYC Financial District
New York, New York: January 16, 1924. Looking south down Broad St, in the heart of the financial district, with the New York Stock Exchange at the right

Graceful Line Of Beach Dancers
Long Beach, California: March 16, 1934. Dancers trained by Lillian Newman staging an outdoor tableux on the beach

Traffic congestion, Covent Garden, London WC2
Traffic congestion in the Covent Garden area, London WC2, showing a view along Henrietta Street from the corner of Bedford Street during the morning of 26 March 1959

Schistosoma spp. blood flukes
Blood flukes mating. These parasites are found in man and other mammals. Snails are the intermediate hosts

Lama pacos, alpaca
Alpaca. Llama Alpaca, 1884. Hand coloured lithograph of a drawing by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins from Gleanings from the Menagerie and Aviary at Knowsley Hall; Hoofed Quadrupeds, 1850

Schistocerca gregaria, desert locust
A desert locust perching on a branch. Locusts sometimes swarm to form groups of up to 80 million and can migrate over large distances

William Smiths geological map
Part of William Smiths geological map of Great Britain, published in 1815

Accipiter gentilis, northern goshawk, Accipiter cooperii, Co
Plate 141 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1831-34), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Triceratops
The three-horned dinosaur which lived during the Upper Cretaceous period, 67 to 65 million years ago. It grew up to 9 metres in length and fossils have been discovered in USA

Aix galericulata, mandarin duck
Plate 69 from John Goulds The Birds of Asia, Vol. 7, (1850-83). Hand coloured lithograph

Scene in Wealden Times
Scene from the Wealden times, during the Cretacous period. Painting, oil on canvas, by Eli Marsden Wilson (1877-1965), before 1935. Original held at the Natural History Museum, London

Heteropoda venatoria, huntsman spider
This a large brown spider with a flattened body structure and a leg span of between 7 and 12 cm. These spiders hunt at night, and mainly prey upon cockroaches

Coal forest diorama
A diorama of a Carboniferous coal forest (354 to 290 million years ago) previously on display at the former Geological Museum which is now part of the Natural History Museum, London

Phoenicopterus ruber, greater flamingo
Plate 431 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

The New Pramobile
London, England: c. 1930. The latest invention in transportation and baby care at the British Industries Exhibition is the new fangled Pramobile, with a speed of 1.5 mph. Its made by Dunckley

Caprimulgus europaeus, European nightjar
Plate 1 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 2 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Pharomacrus mocinno, resplendent quetzal

Selasphorus rufus, rufous hummingbird
Plate 379 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Accipiter striatus, sharp-shinned hawk
Plate 374 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Mergus merganser, goosander
Plate 331 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Fort Lauderdale, Port Everglades, Florida, USA, Grandeur of the Seas, Royal Caribbean
Fort Lauderdale, Port Everglades, Florida, USA, Intracoastal, Grandeur of the Seas, Royal Caribbean

USA, North Carolina, Wilmington, Oceanic Pier

Monument before Fort San Pedro, Cebu City, Cebu, Philippines

Lalish capital of the Kurdish sect of the Yazidis in Iraq Kurdistan

Honduras, Copan, Gran Plaza. Temple IV

Troglodytes troglodytes, winter wren
Plate 118 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Nyctea scandiaca, snowy owl
Plate 34 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 1 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Balaena mysticetus, bowhead whale

Falco sparverius, American kestrel
Plate 142 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1831-34), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Pterodactyl
Drawing of a Pterodactyl, an extinct flying reptile that lived during the Mesozoic era from around 251 millon years ago to 65 million years ago during the time of the K-T extinction

Alopochen aegyptiaca, Egyptian goose
Plate 5 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Pipistrellus pipistrellus, common pipistrelle
Plate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)

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"Embracing the Radiance: Exploring the Wonders of Daytime" Journey through time and terrain with the William Smith Geological Map, unraveling Earth's secrets under the vibrant daytime sky. Dive into Diego Rivera's masterpiece, where sunlight dances on canvas, illuminating his artistic genius during daylight hours. Meet Strigops habroptilus, the enchanting kakapo bird basking in daylight's warmth as it roams its natural habitat. Ernest Hemingway finds solace in fishing under a brilliant sunlit sky, capturing nature's tranquility amidst the hustle life. Gaze upon Perseus and Medusa statue at Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence; witness their immortal struggle bathed in Tuscany's golden daylight glow. The Cologne Cathedral stands tall against a backdrop of clear blue skies, an architectural marvel that shines bright as a UNESCO World Heritage Site during daylight hours. Unveiling mysteries beneath ocean waves, encounter a giant octopus gracefully navigating its watery domain while sunlight pierces through crystal-clear waters above. Wander through Scottish Pine Forests kissed by gentle rays of sunshine; immerse yourself in nature's embrace during glorious daytime adventures. Explore heathland vistas painted with hues only found when sunlight caresses vast open spaces; discover serenity within these untamed landscapes throughout the day. Orvieto reveals its timeless beauty as Italy awakens to another day; let Umbria's charm captivate you under warm rays that grace this picturesque town from dawn till dusk. Bonus: 11: Travel back millions of years to witness prehistoric wonders like Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus roaming ancient seas under broad daylight’s watchful gaze 12: Stand face-to-face with Triceratops' colossal remains - remnants from an era long gone but still awe-inspiring under the bright daytime sun.