Wildlife Art
The museum has an extensive collection of zoological illustration from the 1800s and 1900s.
The collection, started in the 1960s, is one the largest collections of wildlife art held by a museum featuring more than 500 items of paintings, drawing and sculpture. Peter Scott, Eric Ennion, Keith Shackleton and Basil Ede are just a few of the artists represented in the collection.
There are also 170 watercolour paintings by the Irish artist Richard Dunscombe Parker in the 1800s depicting birds in Irish landscapes.
The small collection of sculptures includes works by Morris Harding, Antoine-Louis Barye and Jonathan Kenworthy.
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A Ghost at the Feast
Painting
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A Moment of Magic
Painting
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Adder (1966)
Drawing
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Aechmea mertensii (Bromeliad)
Drawing
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African Fish Eagle
Drawing
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After the Snow - Lammergeier Alps
Drawing
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Algarve Orchard
Drawing
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Along the ridge - Shepherd - Sheep
Drawing
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Arctic Visitor, Aran Island
Drawing
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Ards Forest Park
Drawing
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Arkle and Pat Taaffe
Painting
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Arnold Benington photograph
Photograph
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Avocet Resting
Drawing
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Avocets in Flight
Drawing
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Avocets in Heat Haze
Drawing
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Badger
Drawing
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Badger in Bluebell Wood
Painting
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Badger Twins
Drawing
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Ballintoy Harbour, Evening Eider Ducks
Drawing
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Barn Owl at Roost
Painting
BELUM.N2023.115
Barnacle Geese, Dunfanaghy
Painting
BELUM.N2023.100
Bee-eater Colony
Painting
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Bengal Tiger
Painting
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Bittern
Drawing
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Black stork family - Monfrague, Spain
Drawing
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Black-tailed Godwits, Lagoa dos Salgados
Painting
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Black-tails Alighting
Drawing
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Black-winged Stilt and Flamingos
Painting
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Black-winged Stilt Family
Drawing
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Brent Arrivals
Painting
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Brent at Dusk
Painting
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Brent Geese - Schleswig Holstein
Drawing
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Brent Geese Newcastle
Painting
BELUM.N2023.12
Brent Light
Painting
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Brents at Low Tide
Painting
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Brown Leaves - Blue Tit and Great Tit (1969)
Drawing
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Bustards Disturbed
Painting
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Cacomistle
Drawing
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Camberwell Beauty
Painting
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Campbell College after Snow
Drawing
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Cattle Egrets going to roost Algarve
Painting
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Charr (1972)
Drawing
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Choughs - Antrim Coast
Painting
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Clydesdales at Plough
Painting
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Clydesdales at Plough
Painting
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Cock Blackbird in Distress (1876)
Drawing
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Cock Capercaillie in Display
Drawing
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Colour test
Artwork
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Common Hawker on Flag Iris
Painting
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Common Scoter and Long-tailed Ducks, Dundrum Bay
Painting
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Common Seals in a Bay (1970)
Painting
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Cranes Arriving Testorf
Drawing