Natural History Postcard Pack

This postcard pack contains 16 postcards featuring natural history images and details from items in the British Library collection.

Postcards include:

• Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher, from Drawings of Birds
• Watercolour drawings of English insects from an album belonging to Sir Hans Sloane
• Greater Sulphur-crested Cockatoo illustration by Edward Lear, from Illustration of the family of Psittacidae or parrots
• The  Giraffe, from Royal School Series of Wall Pictures
• Ursus Polaris from Musei Leveriani explicatio…
• Illustration from Animalium quadrupedum, auium, floruk, fruttum… A Booke of Beast, Birds, Flowers, etc.
• Cherry Blossom, from Kai [Vocabulary of Flowers]
• Magnolia, from Kai [Vocabulary of Flowers]
• Front cover of The South Polar Times
• The constellation Canis Minor, from a catalogue of stars
• Cat and mice, from a bestiary made in England
• Rose, from Ehon noyamagusa [Picture-book of Wild Flowers]
• The ‘Tortoise and the Hare’ cut-out illustration from the Fables du Labyrinthe de Versailles
• Pair of Liontail Macaques (‘Macaca silenus’) from Buchanan-Hamilton Collection
• Watercolour drawing of a ‘Tyger-Cat’ from the collection of Sir Joseph Banks
• ‘The Tyger’, from William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience