Grey Fox Gallery

Summer Fashions of 1928 - Two charming Ascot Gowns

Summer Fashions of 1928 - Two charming Ascot Gowns designed by Norman Hartnell. On left, a chiffon dress combining new sorts of printed patterns with box pleated skirt and broad black leather belt. Large Bangkok Hat. On right - dress and coat almost tailored in style of duck egg blue crepe, hemmed with a deep flounce of palest grey fox fur. Tight-fitting helmet hat of felt completing this neat toilette'. Date: 1928

During an extreme heat-stress event at Melbourne's Yarra Bend Grey-headed Flying-fox

During an extreme heat-stress event at Melbourne's Yarra Bend Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) colony, where temperatures exceeded 43?C, in a desperate search for somewhere cooler and less exposed, Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) descend from the safety of the tree canopy looking for a cooler place. Ironically and sadly, this behaviour results in what experts call clumping - where the number of bats in close proximity means that the animals get even hotter. It is often a precursor to mass deaths. On the ground there were already many dead bats that had succumb to this heat-stress event. ?Yarra Bend Golf course, Fairfield, Victoria, Australia.? December, 2019

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Father and daughter on a horse

A father and his daughter riding a grey horse along a country lane. From a??R. Caldecotta??s Second Collection of Pictures and Songsa?? containing a??The Milkmaida??, a??Hey Diddle Diddlea??, Baby Buntinga??, The Fox Jumps Over the Parsona??s Gatea??, a??A Frog He Would a-Wooing Goa??, a??Come Lasses and Ladsa??, a??Ride a Cock Horsea??a??, a??A Farmer Went Trottinga??a??, a??Mrs Mary Blaizea?? and a??The Great Panjandrum Himselfa??. Drawn by Randolph Caldecott; engraved and printed by E. Evans. Published by George Routledge & Sons, London & New York, c1885