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.
Henry Balfour, drawing of spears from the Solomon Islands, Pitt-Rivers Museum
Radiographs of shells, D’arcy Wentworth Thompson papers, St. Andrews University Library
A diagram of pattern evolution organized by General Pitt-Rivers, Nature 22 (September 30, 1880): 511–14.
Design for Wallpaper by Samuel Colman, 1881
Patterns collected by Alfred Cort Haddon in the Torres Strait, Cambridge University Archives
Pattern sketch by Walter Crane, Beinecke Library
William Morris, Trellis wallpaper, 1860s, V&A Museum
Design for Wallpaper by Louis Comfort Tiffany, 1881
Drawing of objects collected by Alfred Cort Haddon in the Torres Straits, Cambridge University Archives
Lewis Foreman Day, design for textile, V&A Museum
Evolution in art, according to Henry Balfour, from The Evolution of Decorative Art (New York: Macmillan & Co., 1893).
Cover of The Goldfish: Being the Confessions of a Successful Man, 1914
Richard Owen, Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus (London: Richard Taylor, 1832), plate I.
Design from a pattern book by Sarah Bland, V&A Museum
Wallpaper design by Candace Wheeler, 1881, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lewis Foreman Day, The Anatomy of Pattern, 1887
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).
