Images and objects occupy a central role in my research. Here is a selection of images I am currently working with. I also collect images related to my various research interests here.

Design for Wallpaper by Louis Comfort Tiffany, 1881

Drawing of objects collected by Alfred Cort Haddon in the Torres Straits, Cambridge University Archives

Radiographs of shells, D’arcy Wentworth Thompson papers, St. Andrews University Library

Henry Balfour, drawing of spears from the Solomon Islands, Pitt-Rivers Museum

Wallpaper design by Candace Wheeler, 1881, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lewis Foreman Day, wallpaper samples, V&A Museum

Evolution in art, according to Henry Balfour, from The Evolution of Decorative Art (New York: Macmillan & Co., 1893).

A diagram of pattern evolution organized by General Pitt-Rivers, Nature 22 (September 30, 1880): 511–14.

Design from a pattern book by Sarah Bland, V&A Museum

Pattern sketch by Walter Crane, Beinecke Library

Richard Owen, Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus (London: Richard Taylor, 1832), plate I.

Patterns collected by Alfred Cort Haddon in the Torres Strait, Cambridge University Archives

William Morris, Trellis wallpaper, 1860s, V&A Museum

Lewis Foreman Day, design for textile, V&A Museum

Cover of The Goldfish: Being the Confessions of a Successful Man, 1914

Lewis Foreman Day, The Anatomy of Pattern, 1887

Design for Wallpaper by Samuel Colman, 1881

Evolution in art, according to Henry Balfour, from The Evolution of Decorative Art (New York: Macmillan & Co., 1893).