Natural History Museum: Images of Nature, Expeditions, & Endeavours

This collection showcases a diverse array of artworks from the Library of the Natural History Museum, featuring many previously unpublished images. It highlights significant voyages, including Captain Cook’s Pacific expeditions, Robert Falcon Scott’s Antarctic missions, and the Challenger expedition that revolutionized oceanography. The collection also includes remarkable illustrations from individual naturalist-explorers like William Bartram, John Abbot, and Paul Hermann, as well as vibrant sketchbooks from Olivia Tonge’s travels in India and the notebooks of Henry Walter Bates and Alfred Russel Wallace from their Amazon explorations. Each piece captures the essence of their quests to observe and document the natural world.