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Art and Artefacts (Natural History)

Watercolour, cloak anemone on hermit crab, by G. V. Du Noyer
The Natural History Division collections are not just made up of scientific specimens. There are hundreds of artworks, photographs, prints, drawings, scientific instruments, and objects from the history of the Natural History Museum.

Most are databased or in the process of being catalogued. Please click here to contact our curators with any questions or requests for access.

Highlights

  • A collection of 97 watercolours by George Victor Du Noyer (1817-1869) produced by him for Ordnance Survey Ireland
  • A drawing from about 1588 of a giant deer antler set found in Co. Meath on lands of Adam Loftus.
  • Microscopes and other equipment used by former staff who worked on the museum collections.
  • Colour drawings, monochrome prints, print blocks used in former museum exhibitions or publications.

Publications

  • Croke, F. 1995. (ed.) George Victor Du Noyer (1817-1869). Hidden Landscapes. National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.
  • Monaghan, N.T. 1996. From grave to cradle, the changing fortunes of the giant Irish deer. In Nudds, J.R. and Pettitt, C.W. (eds) Value and valuation of natural science collections: 144-148 Geological Society, London.
  • Monaghan, N.T. 2001. Irish palaeontological illustrations of the nineteenth century. In: Rushton (ed.) Proceedings of the systematics and biological collections conference, Belfast, August 1996, Linnean Society Occasional Publications 3: 83-91. Westbury Academic and Scientific Publishing, Otley, West Yorkshire.
  • Monaghan, N.T. 2017. The scientific illustrations of George Victor Du Noyer. In: Murray, P. (ed.) Stones, slabs and seascapes: George Victor Du Noyer’s images of Ireland: 26-33. Crawford Art Gallery, Cork.
  • Monaghan, N.T. and Sides, E. 1995. Of fossils and fish: the palaeontological and zoological illustrations of George Victor Du Noyer. In: Fionnuala Croke (ed.) George Victor Du Noyer (1817-1869). Hidden Landscapes. National Gallery of Ireland, pages 74-84.
  • Murray, P. (ed.) Stones, slabs and seascapes: George Victor Du Noyer’s images of Ireland. Crawford Art Gallery, Cork.
  • Parkes, M.A. 2021. George Victor Du Noyer’s large format paintings: Nineteenth-century lecture slides. In: Clary, R.M., Rosenberg, G.D., and Evans, D.C. (eds) The evolution of paleontological art. Geological Society of America Memoir 218: 1–8, https://doi.org/10.1130/2021.1218(12).

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