Chiroptera Collection

Great Indian Fruit Bat, ca. 1777-82. Creator: Bhawani Das
Great Indian Fruit Bat, ca. 1777-82

Trompe l'oeil: Two bats nailed to a timber wall, knife and quill pen ("The Bat Painting"), 1738

Tree of Bats, Whydah; The Kingdom of Dahomey, 1875. Creator: Unknown
Tree of Bats, Whydah; The Kingdom of Dahomey, 1875. From Illustrated Travels by H.W. Bates. [Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880, London] and Galpin

Nitta Shiro Tadatsune Entering a Cave with a Torch, 1886. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Nitta Shiro Tadatsune Entering a Cave with a Torch, 1886. From Yoshitoshi's Warriors Trembling with Courage

Insects, 19th century. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Insects, 19th century

Miyamoto Musashi Slashing a Bat, 1867. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Miyamoto Musashi Slashing a Bat, 1867. Series: Beauty and Valor in the Novel Suikoden

Flying Foxes in the Gardens of the Zoological Society, Regent's-Park, 1856. Creator: Pearson
Flying Foxes in the Gardens of the Zoological Society, Regent's-Park, [London], 1856. The Flying Fox is the largest of the fruit-eating bats of India

Animalia Volatilia et Amphibia (Aier): Plate XLVI, c. 1575/1580. Creator: Joris Hoefnagel
Animalia Volatilia et Amphibia (Aier): Plate XLVI, c. 1575/1580

The Castle by the Sea, 1887. Creator: Max Klinger
The Castle by the Sea, 1887

The Temptations of Saint Anthony, 1647-1649. Creator: David Teniers II
The Temptations of Saint Anthony, 1647-1649

Gipsy Dance;An Autumn Tour in Andalusia, 1875. Creator: Gustave Doré
Gipsy Dance; An Autumn Tour in Andalusia, 1875. [Spanish dancer with castanets, old woman playing the tambourine]. From, Illustrated Travels by H.W. Bates

Count Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac, 1894. Creator: Henri-Charles Guerard
Count Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac, 1894

Dish with Bamboos and Bat, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Daoquang period (1821-1850)

A Bat Flying near a Pine Tree, 19th century. Creator: Issho
A Bat Flying near a Pine Tree, 19th century

Dish with Peaches and Bats, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Yongzheng reign mark and period (1723-1735)

Plate with Bats and Dragons, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Kangxi reign (1662-1722)
Plate with Bats and Dragons, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Kangxi reign mark and period (1662-1722)

Gourd-Shaped Snuff Bottle with Bats, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), 1800-1900

Square Dish with Symbols of Longevity and Immortality (Deer, Bats... Yuan dynasty (1271-1368). Creator: Unknown
Square Dish with Symbols of Longevity and Immortality (Deer, Bats, Fungus, and Clouds) and the Phrase Tian Zhi Mei Lu (Beauty of Heavenly Prosperity), Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)

Young Woman in the Glow of Sunset (Musume no sekisho), from the series "Eight... c
Young Woman in the Glow of Sunset (Musume no sekisho), from the series " Eight Views of Fashionable Human Relations (Furyu jinrin mitate hakkei)", c. 1770/72

Dish with Fruiting Peaches, Tree Peony, Flowering Plum, and Bats, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), apocryphal Yongzheng mark (1723-1735), probably 19th century

Armchair, Florence, 1876. Creator: Luigi Frullini
Armchair, Florence, 1876

Trimming, China, Qing dynasty(1644-1911), 1850 / 1900. Creator: Unknown
Trimming, China, Qing dynasty(1644-1911), 1850/1900

Zhong Kui (Shoki) on a tiger, Edo period, 18th century. Creator: Unknown
Zhong Kui (Shoki) on a tiger, Edo period, 18th century

Ornament with Trophy of Arms, 1550. Creator: Heinrich Aldegrever
Ornament with Trophy of Arms, 1550

Frontispiece for "Zigzags d un Curieux, d Octave Uzanne", 1888
Frontispiece for " Zigzags d un Curieux, d Octave Uzanne", 1888

Taking the Shortcut, ca. 1860. Creator: W. H. Norton
Taking the Shortcut, ca. 1860

The Bat, 1902. Creator: Gertrude Kasebier
The Bat, 1902

Design for a Candelabra Grotesque with a Bat in the Center, 1550

Plate 43 from Los Caprichos : The sleep of reason produces monsters (El sueno de la razon produce monstruos), 1799, published 1908-12

Plate 45 from Los Caprichos: There is Plenty to Suck (Mucho hay que chupar. ), 1799
Plate 45 from Los Caprichos: There is Plenty to Suck (Mucho hay que chupar.), 1799

Vampyre, from The Comic Natural History of the Human Race, 1851

La Noctule & La Serotine, c1763. Creator: Christian Friedrich Fritzsch
La Noctule & La Serotine, c1763. The Common noctule bat and the serotine bat. The " Histoire Naturelle, generale et particuliere, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi", (Natural History)

La Chauve-Souris les Ailes entendues & La Chauve-Souris sur ses quatre Jambes, c1763. Bat shown with wings extended, and on all fours

Le Fer-A-Cheval & Le Fer-A-Cheval suspendu par les pieds, c1763. The Greater horseshoe bat showin on all fours, and hanging upside-down

La Barbastelle & La Pipistrelle, c1763. Creator: Christian Friedrich Fritzsch
La Barbastelle & La Pipistrelle, c1763. The barbastelle bat and the pipistrelle bat. The " Histoire Naturelle, generale et particuliere, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi"

Bat-Fowling, (1924). Creator: Unknown
Bat-Fowling, (1924). Catching bats in a churchyard at night. No.1 in a series of 25 Old Sporting Prints Cigarette Cards. After Samuel Howitt. [John Player & Sons, 1924]

Flying Foxes, from Brehms Tierleben, pub. 1860s (colour lithograph), 1860

The Shepherdess and the Chmney-Sweeper, c1930. Artist: W Heath Robinson
The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sweeper, c1930. An illustration from The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sweeper by Hans Christian Andersen. From Hans Andersens Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen

Vampire Bat, c1885, (1890). Artist: Robert Taylor Pritchett
Vampire Bat, c1885, (1890). From Journal of Researchers into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S

Bats. (Chiroptera), 1885. From The National Encyclopaedia. A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge by Writers of Eminence in Literature, Science and Art

Pottery. Bat-God: pottery with red paint. Zapotec culture, Mexico, 300-900 AD. (A branch of Aztec cu)
Camazotz, Bat-God, pottery with red paint, Zapotec culture, Mexico, 300-900. The cult of Camazotz began around 100 BCE among the Zapotec Indians in what is the modern-day Mexican state of Oaxaca

Pottery Mask of a Bat, grey with red and white paint, Zapotec, Mexico, 300-900. The Zapotec civilization was an indigenous pre-Columbian civilization that flourished in the Valley of Oaxaca in

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