Sea Bed Collection

Wolffish at the bottom of an aquarium, 1883. Creator: Willem Witsen
Wolffish at the bottom of an aquarium, 1883

Two Pike in an aquarium, seen from the side and from the front, c.1876-c.1924. Creator: Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof
Two Pike in an aquarium, seen from the side and from the front, c.1876-c.1924

Aquarium with three North Sea fish: lobster, dogfish and plaice, c.1876-c.1924. Creator: Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof
Aquarium with three North Sea fish: lobster, dogfish and plaice, c.1876-c.1924

Pike and Perch in an Aquaruim, 1910-1920. Creator: Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof
Pike and Perch in an Aquaruim, 1910-1920

Gold- and Silverfish in an Aquarium, 1890-1922. Creator: Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof
Gold- and Silverfish in an Aquarium, 1890-1922

Back into Nothingness, plate fifteen from A Life, 1884. Creator: Max Klinger
Back into Nothingness, plate fifteen from A Life, 1884

Head of Neptune, 18th century. Creator: James Barry
Head of Neptune, 18th century

Sea Bottom, late 19th or early 20th century. Artist: Vasily Ivanovich Denisov
Sea Bottom, late 19th or early 20th century. Found in the collection of the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Model Showing The Laurentic As She Originally Lay, 120 Feet Below The Surface, c1930
Model Showing The " Laurentic" As She Originally Lay, 120 Feet Below The Surface, c1930. From " The Wonder Book of Ships", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co

Over Fifty Varieties of Sea Anemones, 1935
A Remarkable Collection of Flowers of the Sea: Over Fifty Varieties of Sea Anemones found Round The Coasts of Great Britain, 1935. From The Popular Science Educator, Volume 1, edited by Charles Ray

Pearls 1. Native Diver at Work, Ceylon, 1928. From Players Cigarettes - Products of the World: A Series of 50 [John Player & Sons, London, 1928]

The first photograph of a diver under water, late 19th century, (c1920). Illustration from Hutchinsons Story of the British Nation, Volume IV, Walter Hutchinson, London, c1920s

Illustration from the fairy tale The Water-Babies, by Charles Kingsley, 1863. Artist: Noel Paton
Illustration from the fairy tale The Water-Babies, by Charles Kingsley, 1863. From a private collection

Shells and Shellfish, 16th century. Artist: Joris Hoefnagel
Shells and Shellfish, 16th century. An illustration from the calligraphic manuscript Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta, inscribed by Georg Bocskay and illuminated by Joris Hoefnagel

Mont St Michel, 1881. Artist: Emmanuel Lansyer
Mont St Michel, 1881. From the colletion of Musee Lansyer, Loches, France

Artists impression of deep sea scene with luminous fishes, 1903. Some of the creatures shown here were brought up in the dredges during the French oceanographical expeditions of the Travailleur

The Atlantic Telegraph, c1878. Idealised view of the telegraph cable passing under the ocean from Valentia, Ireland to Trinity Bay, Newfoundland

Divers salvaging guns from the seabed, c1855. The diving suits appear to be of the type designed by German-born engineer Augustus Siebe (1778-1872)

A diver searching a wreck in La Havre harbour, France, 1892. Artist: Henri Meyer
A diver searching a wreck in La Havre harbour, France, 1892. A print from a supplement to the Le Petit Journal, 13th February 1892

Charles Babbages proposed design for a diving bell, 1855. English mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage designed this diving bell to be used by divers placing charges to blow up wrecks

An Accident in Santander, Divers Looking for the Bodies of the Victims, 1893. Fire broke out on the commercial ship Cabo-Machchichaco, the crew of the liner Alphonse III, tried to help

Model of a Bothriolepsis, a fish from the Upper Devonian Strata in Canada, from the British Museums collection

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