Alexis Collection (page 2)

Purple emperor butterfly and lesser purple emperor
Purple emperor butterfly, Apatura iris, ventral and dorsal, and lesser purple emperor, Apatura ilia. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel

Poplar admiral, common glider, and Hungarian glider
Poplar admiral, Limenitis populi, common glider, Neptis sappho, and Hungarian glider, Neptis rivularis. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas

White admiral and southern white admiral
White admiral, Limenitis camilla, dorsal and ventral, and southern white admiral, Limenitis reducta. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel

Orange tip, sooty orange tip and wood white
Orange tip, Anthocharis cardamines, male and female, sooty orange tip, Zegris eupheme, and wood white, Leptidea sinapis. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by

Lofty bath white, brimstone and bath white
Lofty bath white, Pontia callidice, brimstone, Gonepteryx rhamni, and bath white, Pontia daplidice. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel

Moorland clouded yellow, cleopatra and pale clouded yellow
Moorland clouded yellow, Colias palaeno, cleopatra butterfly, Gonepteryx cleopatra, and pale clouded yellow, Colias hyale

Large white, clouded yellow and black-veined white
Large white, Pieris brassicae, clouded yellow, Colias croceus, and black-veined white, Aporia crataegi. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas

Map and European beak butterflies
Map butterflies, Araschnia levana and Araschnia levana prorsa, and European beak or nettle-tree butterfly, Libythea celtis

Painted lady, false comma, and comma butterfly variety
Painted lady, Vanessa cardui, false comma, Nymphalis vaualbum, and comma butterfly variety, Polygonia c-album. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis

Large tortoiseshell, small tortoiseshell
Large tortoiseshell, Nymphalis polychloros, small tortoiseshell, Aglais urticae, and comma butterfly, Polygonia c-album. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by

Camberwell beauty, peacock and red admiral butterflies
Camberwell beauty, Nymphalis antiopa, peacock butterfly, Aglais io, and red admiral, Vanessa atalanta. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas

Title page with decorative calligraphy among flowers and butterflies. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel from Hippolyte Lucas Natural

Portraits of Russian Tsars, House of Romanov: Michael l 1, Alexis I 2, Fyodor II 3, Peter I the Great 4, Catherine II the Great 5 and Peter II 6

Mlle. Millen as Felicite in the play Le Voyage
French actress Mlle. Millen as Felicite in the play Le Voyage a Dieppe by Alexis Wafflard and Fulgence de Bury at the Odeon, 1821

Alexis Soyer
French-born Alexis Soyer was Britains first celebrity chef. He was head chef at Londons Reform Club, set up a soup kitchen in Dublin during the Irish Famine, wrote best-selling cookery books

Countess Barbara Haugwitz-Reventlow (Barbara Hutton), 1938
Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow, formerly Miss Barbara Hutton (1912-76) pictured at the fashionable Venice Lido in 1938 wearing a Chinese style pyjamas

Front cover, Princess Alexis Mdivani (Barbara Hutton)
Front cover, Princess Alexis Mdivani (formerly Barbara Hutton) at dinner in Paris with Georges Carpentier, boxer and actor. Date: 2 August 1933

REFORM CLUB KITCHEN
The kitchen staff at the Reform Club, London, where the kitchens were designed by Alexis Soyer Date: 1840

ALEXIAN
Monk of the ORDER OF SAINT ALEXIS (Netherlands) Date: 1848

Ballet dancer Alexis Rassine in Le Spectre de la Rose
Ballet dancer Alexis Rassine (1919-1992) in Le Spectre de la Rose (with Margot Fonteyn). Date: 1944

Mrs Arthur Paget and the Grand Duke Alexis
Mrs Arthur Paget, formerly the American heiress, Minnie Stevens (Steevens) photographed with Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, who was head of the Russian army

Prince and Princess Alexis Mdivani at Hotel de Paris, Bray
Portrait of Barbara Woolworth Hutton (1912-1979), socialite, heiress and philanthropist, dubbed the " poor little rich girl", pictured with her husband Prince Alexis Mdivani

Characters from the play Chantecler by Rostand, 1910. Chicken, owl, dog and peacock costumes are shown here in detail. Lucien Guitry is pictured in cockerel costume

The Mdivanis 7000 party - Barbara Hutton
Page from the Sketch with photographs of one of the most wonderful parties of modern times held at the Ritz Hotel in Paris by Prince Alexis Mdivani and his wife, formerly Miss Barbara Hutton

Soyers Field Kitchen
The celebrated chef Alexis Soyer demonstrates his field kitchen for camp and bivouac in the Crimea, to Lord Rokeby and general Pelissier

Alexis Didier
French clairvoyant whose phenomenal talents operate in the hypnotic trance; countless demonstrations seem to put the genuineness of his powers beyond question

Alexis Carrel
ALEXIS CARREL French surgeon and biologist

Kremlin, Moscow - Tsar Aleksey Mikhailovichs bedchamber
Kremlin, Moscow - the bedchamber of Tsar Aleksey Mikhailovich (1629-1676). Date: 1904

Tocqueville, Alexis Henri Cle?rete, Earl of (1805-1859). French writer and politician. The nineteenth century colored engraving

Edmond Dubois
EDMOND LOUIS ALEXIS DUBOIS DE CRANCE French revolutionary statesman, president of the Convention in 1793, later minister for war. Date: 1747 - 1814

Alexis Claude Clairault
ALEXIS CLAUDE CLAIRAULT French mathematician Date: 1713 - 1765

Kremlin / Czars Throne Rm
The throne-room of Czar Alexis Michaelovitch Date: circa 1880

CARREL, Alexis (1873 - 1944). French surgeon and biologist. Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1912. Oil

Scene from The Sorcerer, Gilbert and Sullivan
Scene from The Sorcerer, operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan, at the Opera Comique. The central characters are, presumably, Alexis and Aline (in bridal gown)

Third act of the play Chantecler by Rostand, 1910
A scene from the third act of the play Chantecler by Edmond Eugene Alexis Rostand. Lucien Guitry plays the cockerel Chantecler, the eponymous hero of the play. Date: 1910

Scenes from the play Chantecler by Rostand, 1910
A page from Femina magazine, showing scenes from the first and second act of the play Chantecler by Edmond Eugene Alexis Rostand

Madame Soyer
EMMA SOYER French artist, whose husband Alexis was also an artist - in the culinary arts. Date: 1813 - 1842

Alexis Sauvage
ALEXIS SAUVAGE French mechanical engineer whose fame has not outlived him, unlike others of his name.. Date: CIRCA 1860

Alexis Piron - 2
ALEXIS PIRON French writer, dining with two friends Colle and Gallet on either side of him. Date: 1689 - 1773

Alexis Piron - 1
ALEXIS PIRON French writer Date: 1689 - 1773

Alex. Fedor. Orlov
Prince ALEXIS FEODOROVICH ORLOV Russian soldier and diplomat at the time of the Crimean War. Date: 1787 - 1862

Alexis Greg. Orlov
ALEXIS GREGORIVICH ORLOV (or Orloff) Russian statesman and administrator. Date: 1737 - 1808

Amans Alexis Monteil
AMANS ALEXIS MONTEIL French historian Date: 1769 - 1850

Alexis Hallette
ALEXIS HALLETTE - French engineer / inventor : his workshops produced hardware from boats to carriages, his great claim to fame is in presses for oil / fruit juice. Date: 1788 - 1846

LEEUW, Alexis de (ca. 1848-1883). Winter scene with skaters on a river. ca. 1850. Oil on canvas

TOLSTOY, Aleksey Konstantinovich (1817 - 1875)

TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de (1805-1859)

Book cover design, Andree and his Balloon, by Henri Lachambre and Alexis Machuron, London: Archibald Constable & Co, 1898. 1898

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