Dolphin Collection

Picture No. 12479493
Common bottlenose dolphin playing with a six Date:

Corys shearwaters (Calonectris diomedea) diving among a mass of shoaling fish to feed, along with Atlantic spotted dolphins (Stenella frontalis), Formigas Islet dive site, Azores, Portugal

Killer Whales / Orcas (Orcinus orca)
Killer whales / Orcas (Orcinus orca) large pod including calf traveling together while foraging on large schools of Herring (Clupea harengus) in the cold waters of northern Norway, January

Cartouche on W. Mayos Map of Barbados, 1722, (1944). Creator: William Mayo
Cartouche on W. Mayos Map of Barbados, 1722, (1944). A New & Exact Map of the Island of Barbadoes in America. According to an Actual & Accurate Survey

Killer whale (Orcinus orca) male named Mel attacking young South American sea lion (Otaria flavescens) on beach, Punta Norte, Peninsula Valdes, Argentina

Greece, Crete, archeological site of Knossos
Greece, Crete island, Iraklion, archeological site of Knossos, dolphin fresco

The Yorkshire County Cricket Team, 1912
Photograph showing 13 members of the Yorkshire County Cricket team for the 1912 season. Yorkshire were winners of the County Championship that year. Top row, left to right: Sir A.W

Bottlenose dolphins - three close-up of heads underwater
STA-76-n Bottlenose dolphins - three close-up of heads underwater Tursiops truncatus Augusto Leandro Stanzani Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

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Greece, Crete, Knossos, Dolphin fresco in the Queens Megaron, Knossos Palace

Orca whales (Orcinus orca) pod surfacing together, Shetland, Scotland, UK. April

Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) two breaching in evening light, Moray Firth, Inverness-shire, Scotland, UK, August, sequence 2/2

Bottlenose dolphin - blowing air rings underwater
STA-82 Bottlenose dolphin - blowing air rings underwater Distribution: Worldwide except polar regions Tursiops truncatus Complex play / creative behaviour

Bottlenose Dolphin STA 13 Two, one on top of the other tursiops truncatus © Augusto Leandro Stanzani / ARDEA
STA-13 Bottlenose DOLPHIN - two, facing, one on top of the other tursiops truncatus Distribution: Worldwide except polar regionsBottlenose Dolphin STA 13 Two

Dolphin Square Gardens, looking North - Pimlico, London. Date: 1956

Picture No. 10898948
Amazon / Pink River Dolphin / Boto (Inia geoffrensis) Date:

Bottlenose dolphin - with party hat & streamers Digital Manipulation: Streamers JD. Hat drawn
STA-248-M Bottlenose dolphin - with party hat & streamers Tursiops truncatus Digitally manipulated image Augusto Leandro Stanzani Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Dolphins, Knossos, Crete, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Dolphin fresco, Knossos, Crete, Greece, Europe

Bottlenosed Dolphins - jumping Pacific Ocean off coast of Honduras
TOM-855 Bottlenosed Dolphin - two leaping Pacific Ocean, Honduras Tursiop truncatus Tom & Pat Leeson Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Two Bottle-nosed Dolphins jumping in Pacific Ocean Off coast of Honduras 2Mo28
TOM-769 Two Bottlenosed Dolphins jumping Pacific Ocean, off coast of Honduras Tursiops truncatus Tom & Pat Leeson Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Bottlenose Dolphin - Newborn Baby/Calf with Mother immediately after birth
STA-153 Bottlenose Dolphin - Newborn Baby / Calf with Mother immediately after birth Tursiops truncatus Part of a sequence of images Dolphin gestation / pregnancy lasts approx

Bottlenose dolphin - two leaping Carribean. Off Roatan Island, Honduras, Central America
FG-cu-434 Bottlenose dolphin - two leaping Caribbean. Off Roatan Island, Honduras, Central America Tursiops truncatus Francois Gohier Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Bottlenose dolphin - two leaping Carribean. Off Roatan Island, Honduras, Central America
FG-cu-207 Bottlenose dolphin - two leaping Caribbean. Off Roatan Island, Honduras, Central America Tursiops truncatus Francois Gohier Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Bottlenose dolphin - blowing air bubbles underwater with mouth open
STA-75 Bottlenose dolphin - blowing air bubbles underwater with mouth open Distribution: Worldwide except polar regions Tursiops truncatus Complex play / creative behaviour

Bottlenose Dolphin Two together
STA-12-m Bottlenose DOLPHIN - two facing camera Tursiops truncatus Augusto Leandro Stanzani Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Arion on a Dolphin
A Greek poet and musician, reputed to have been cast into the sea by mariners but carried to Taenaros on a dolphins back

Bottlenose dolphin - underwater Carribean. Off Roatan Island, Honduras, Central America
FG-cu-13-c-m Bottlenose dolphin - underwater Carribean. Off Roatan Island, Honduras, Central America Tursiops truncatus Francois Gohier Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Bottlenose Dolphin - x2
STA-27 Bottlenose DOLPHIN - x2, head close-up, facing camera, smiling Tursiops truncatus Augusto Leandro Stanzani Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Bottlenose Dolphins - Tail dancing
STA-126 Bottlenose Dolphins - Tail dancing Tursiops truncatus Augusto Leandro Stanzani Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

The Arrow Star Map
The Arrow constellation, showing Antinous being attacked by an eagle and also including a dolphin

Orcas / killer whales (Orcinus orca) swimming in open water, Three Kings Islands, New Zealand. Pacific Ocean

Pod of Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops adunctus) swim over a coral reef. Sha ab El Erg, Hurghada, Egypt. Red Sea

Bottlenose dolphins - pair dancing underwater
STA-62 Bottlenose dolphins - pair dancing underwater Distribution: Worldwide except polar regions Tursiops truncatus Augusto Leandro Stanzani Please note that prints are for personal display purposes

Bottlenose dolphin wearing Christmas hat

Killer whale (Orcinus orca) pod hunting together in herring baitball (Clupea harengus), Andenes, Andoya island, North Atlantic Ocean, Norway, April

Orcas / killer whales (Orcinus orca) swimming in open water, Three Kings Islands, New Zealand. Pacific Ocean

Humour rain umbrella St. Swithin 19th century cartoon
This is a cartoon etching by the well-known Victorian social caricaturist / cartoonist George Cruikshank (1792 - 1878), dated November 1st, 1829

Church Street, Christchurch, Dorset
Church Street, Christchurch, near Bournemouth, Dorset, England. Showing Tram, Broud Bros - Bootmakers & The Dolphin Inn Date: 1910

Picture No. 10898943
Amazon / Pink River Dolphin / Boto (Inia geoffrensis) Date:

Riding a killer whale
A man with a cowboy hat rides a killer whale. Date: 1960s

Bottlenose Dolphin - recently born calf swims with mother - Oltremare lagoon – Riccione – Italy The pregnancy lasted 54
STA-277 Bottlenose Dolphin - recently born calf swims with mother Oltremare lagoon Riccione Italy Tursiops truncatus The pregnancy lasted 54 weeks

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STA-261 Bottlenose Dolphin - swimming underwater Tursiops truncatus Augusto Leandro Stanzani Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in anyway

Bottlenose Dolphin - Swimming at speed through water - dolphins can reach 65 km per hour
STA-207 Bottlenose Dolphin - Swimming at speed through water Tursiops truncatus Dolphins can reach 65 km per hour Augusto Leandro Stanzani Please note that prints are for personal display purposes

Bottlenose Dolphin - playing / bow riding in front of cargo ship in the strait of Gibraltar. Spain
WAT-12944 Bottlenose Dolphin - playing / bow riding in front of cargo ship in the strait of Gibraltar Spain Tursiops truncatus M

Bottlenose dolphin Carribean. Off Roatan Island, Honduras, Central America
FG-cj-685 BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS - two leaping out of water Carribean. Off Roatan Island, Honduras, Central Americ Tursiops truncatus Francois Gohier Please note that prints are for personal display

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FG-ca-468-c Bottlenose Dolphin - two leaping at sunset Tursiops truncatus Francois Gohier Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Bottlenose dolphin - blowing air bubbles underwater
STA-94 Bottlenose dolphin - blowing air bubbles underwater Distribution: Worldwide except polar regions Tursiops truncatus Complex play / creative behaviour

Bottlenose Dolphin - Mother giving birth to Baby/Calf. Birth Sequence 4. The tail is out
STA-135 Bottlenose Dolphin - Mother giving birth to Baby / Calf. Birth Sequence 4. The tail is out, from this moment normally birth will occur within two hours Tursiops truncatus Part of a sequence

Bottlenose dolphins - pair mating
STA-103 Bottlenose dolphins - pair mating Distribution: Worldwide except polar regions Tursiops truncatus Augusto Leandro Stanzani Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Dolphin
ME-1245 Bottlenose DOLPHIN - head Tursiops truncatus Found worldwide, except polar regions. Johan De Meester Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Bottle-nosed Dolphin - Leaping out of water 2Mo20
TOM-773 Bottlenosed Dolphin - Leaping out of water Tursiops truncatus Tom & Pat Leeson Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Common Bottlenose Dolphin Jumping in Air, Caribbean Sea, Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras

Yorkshire, The Champion County Cricket Team 1919
The champion county cricket team of the 1919 season. Date: 1919

Dionysius in a sailing boat surrounded by dolphins, Ancient Greek dish (Krater), 530 BC. The boat is carrying a cargo of grapevines. Dionysius was the Ancient Greek god of wine

The Aquarium, pub. 1873 (colour litho)
2646269 The Aquarium, pub. 1873 (colour litho) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; The Stapleton Collection; American, out of copyright

Girl and Dolphin and Tower Bridge, London, England

MYTHOLOGY: POSEIDON. Poseidon riding on a dolphin into the harbor of Venice, Italy. Detail of Jacopo Barbaris bird s-eye-view of Venice. Woodcut, 1500

Greece. Southern Aegean. Cyclades. Delos. House
GREECE. SOUTHERN AEGEAN. CYCLADES. Delos. House of the Trident. Mosaic of the impluvium depicting a dolphin and an anchor. Mosaic

Spotted dolphins
Atlantic spotted dolphins. Composite image of a pod of Atlantic spotted dolphins (Stenella frontalis) swimming past a gorgonian venus sea fan (Gorgonia flabellum)

Atlantic Spotted Dolphins (Stenella frontalis) underwater on the Little Bahama Banks, Grand Bahama Island
Michael Nolan / SplashdownDirect

Bottlenose Dolphin - Resting underwater
STA-205 Bottlenose Dolphin - Resting underwater Tursiops truncatus Augusto Leandro Stanzani Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Atlantic spotted dolphin Photographed on the Grand Bahamas Bank
FG-bf-738 Atlantic spotted dolphins Photographed on the Grand Bahamas Bank Stenella frontalis Francois Gohier Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Bottle-nosed dolphin - Jumping 2MO21
TOM-783 Bottlenosed Dolphin Honduras Tursiops truncatus Tom & Pat Leeson Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Bottle-nosed Dolphin in Pacific Ocean Off Honduras 2Mo24
TOM-771 Bottlenosed Dolphin - emerging from water Pacific Ocean, Off Honduras Tursiops truncatus Tom & Pat Leeson Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Baiji - Also known as: Chinese river dolphin Yangtze River dolphin white flag dolphin and whitefin dolphin
NG-01 CHINESE RIVER / White Flag / Baiji / Whitefin / Yangtze DOLPHIN Yangtze River Lipotes vexillifer Nick Gordon Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Bottlenose Dolphin - female and her calf
STA-89-N Bottlenose Dolphin - female and her calf Tursiops truncatus Augusto Leandro Stanzani Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Bottlenose dolphin Carribean: Roatan Island, Honduras
FG-ds-628 Bottlenose dolphin Caribbean: Roatan Island, Honduras Tursiops truncatus Francois Gohier Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Odyssey / Cyclops & Pipes
Polyphemus the Cyclops at the opening of his cave, staff in one hand and pipes in the other. Three sea nymphs and a dolphin are in the background

Polish poster for MGM film, Flipper
Polish poster for an MGM film, Flipper (the Polish title is: My Friend is a Dolphin), starring Chuck Connors, Kathleen Maguire and Luke Halpin, poster designed by Rapnicki. 1963

The Marchionese listens in as the Fetometer is used on Bonnie the dolphin. March 1975 P011858

Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) at the surface at sunrise. Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

Delphinus delphis, short-beaked common dolphin
Plate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)

Common Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) two adults, leaping, silhouetted at sunset, Roatan, Honduras

Temple Of Apollo; Delphi, Greece

Chinese River Dolphin NG 28 China Lipotes vexillifer © Nick Gordon / ARDEA LONDON
NG-28 Chinese River / White Flag / Yangtze / Baiji / White fin River DOLPHIN China Lipotes vexillifer Nick Gordon contact details: prints@ardea.com tel: +44 (0) 20 8318 1401

Long-beaked Common Dolphin (Delphinus capensis) three adults, feeding on baitball school of small bait fish, offshore Port St. Johns, Wild Coast, Eastern Cape (Transkei), South Africa

Long-beaked Common Dolphin (Delphinus capenisis) adult, leaping, Sea of Cortez, Mexico

Whale and porpoise watching, San Miguel, Azores, Portugal, Atlantic, Europe

Close-up of bottlenose dolphins kissing

Dolphins swimming at sunset, Maldives, Indian Ocean, Asia

Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Group surfing. South Africa
Tom Walmsley / SplashdownDirect

AUS-31 Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Monkey Mia, Francois Peron National Park, Shark Bay, Western Australia Tim Acker / Auscape / ardea.com Auscape Please note that prints are for personal

Group of striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) swimming, Strait of Gibraltar, Costa de la Luz, Andalucia (Andalusia), Spain, Europe

Spinner Dolphin near Island Fernando de Noronha, Brazil
FG-AT-852 Spinner Dolphin near Island Fernando de Noronha, Brazil Stenella longirostris Francois Gohier Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

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"Dolphins: Majestic Creatures of the Sea" In the vast oceanic realm, dolphins reign as some of the most captivating and intelligent creatures. Among them are the mighty Killer Whales or Orcas (Orcinus orca), known for their awe-inspiring presence. Journeying to Greece's historic island of Crete, one can explore the archeological site of Knossos while marveling at these magnificent beings. Picture No. 12479493 captures a moment in time when nature intertwines with history. Transported back to 1912, The Yorkshire County Cricket Team witnesses an extraordinary sight as they encounter a pod of Orca whales surfacing together off Shetland, Scotland. A testament to nature's grandeur and its ability to captivate even those engaged in different pursuits. The power and agility displayed by Mel, a male Killer Whale attacking a young South American sea lion, showcases both their hunting prowess and survival instincts. These apex predators command respect wherever they roam. But not all dolphin encounters are marked by ferocity; sometimes it is pure joy that fills our hearts. In Moray Firth, two Bottlenose dolphins breach gracefully against an ethereal evening light - Picture No. 10898948 immortalizes this enchanting display. These intelligent mammals continue to amaze us with their playful antics underwater as well. Blowing air rings or bubbles with mouth open demonstrates their remarkable adaptability and creativity beneath the waves. Even amidst bustling city life lies Dolphin Square Gardens in Pimlico, London – an oasis where tranquility meets urbanity. Here we find solace in knowing that these incredible creatures exist beyond our concrete jungles. From ancient ruins to modern-day wonders captured through lenses around the world - Dolphins remain timeless symbols of grace and wonderment within our vast oceans.