Lilac Collection

Tatler front cover 1956
Front cover design in a typical 1950s style for The Tatler Early Spring Number. A woman wearing a voluminous checked blouse has a moment to herself while surrounded by lilac blossom

Lilac botanical study.. Lithograph with pochoir (stencil) handcoloring from Eugene Grassets Plants and their Application to Ornament, Paris, 1897

Sleeping Beauty ballet, reawakening scene
While the King and Queen sleep, Prince Charming, with the blessing of the Lilac Fairy, bends to kiss the Sleeping Princess and thereby awaken her

Costume design by Bergere Oscar Perrault
Costume design or fashion illustration for Bergere Oscar Perrault for a girl in lilac gown with pearl detail and feather fan, 1920s 1920s

Victor Stiebel / Day Dress
Design by Victor Stiebel (1907-1976) for a pink linen and silk surah summer dress. Scooped-out bodice is filled with a lilac spotted scarf & large knot tied to the belt

Lilac Time by Adrian Ross from Das Dreimaederlhaus by A. M. Willner and H. Reichert; music from the melo-dies of Franz Schubert (Raimundttheater, Vienna 15/1/1916)

Crocus sativus, saffron
Plate 25 from Le Regne Vegetal. Vol 10 Flore Medicale Atlas 3 (1870). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

GIRLS FASHIONS 1847
Grey dress: corsage a caraco made to resemble a jacket & skirt. Blue dress trimmed with black rosettes: pointed waist, skirt pinned up to reveal an underskirt

Fringed gentian with blue, lilac and white flowers, fringed petals, Gentiana crinita.. Illustration by Clarissa Badger, nee Munger, from Wild Flowers, Drawn and Colored from Nature, New York, 1859

Agapanthus, lily of the Nile

Vanda caerulea, Himalayan orchid
Illustration from the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. This plant was thought to be extinct in 1996

Syringa tomentella. Dried specimen taken from the museum herbarium. Collected near Newbury, Berks 1952

Woman in lilac dress, era of Marie Antoinette
Woman in lilac dress strolling in the Palais Royal, era of Marie Antoinette. Petite Maitresse en robe lilas tendre garnie de gaze a la promenade au Palais Royal

Vine lilac or waraburra, Hardenbergia violacea (One-leaved hardenbergia, Hardenbergia monophylla). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S

Lady Lavery by Sir John Lavery
Hazel, Lady Lavery (1886 - 1935), formerly Hazel Martyn and second wife of the celebrated portrait artist Sir John Lavery who painted her portrait hundreds of times

A scene from the play Lilac Time, December 1923 Date: 1923

Lady With a Wine Vessel
Chinese painting on silk, featuring a woman holding a large wine vessel, stood wearing a lilac dress with scarf and tassels. Late Ming. Date: circa 1922

A lady in a pinafore dress artistically arranges lilac coloured blossom in a tall, narrow stemmed glass vase, watched on by her pekinese dog. Date: 1915

Children of London's West End. Boys: knitted jersey suits with knickerbockers. Girls: pink polonaise & sunbonnet; lilac dress with yoke, sash, gathered bodice & gigot sleeves Date: 1884

Young lady with lilies
Lilies. Young lady in a pink crinoline and lilac shawl carrying a bouquet of lilies. Art nouveau style. Artist: Ethel Larcombe Date: circa 1910

Lace shawl
The Lace Shawl. Young lady in a pink and lilac crinoline donning a delicate lace shawl. Art nouveau style. Artist: Ethel Larcombe Date: circa 1910

Subscribers leaving the opera, 1891. Gentleman in top hat and white-tie assisting a woman with her fur-lined cape on the stairs of the Opera de Paris. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V

Gentlemen and lady on the Pont des Arts, 1884
After a meeting of the Institute. The Pont des Arts, 1884. Gentlemen in top hats with lady in dress decorated with ribbons and flowers. Institut de France. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V

Woman in front of the Chinese Baths, Paris, 1849
Woman in front of the Chinese Baths on the Boulevard des Capucines, 1849. Woman in full crinoline, shawl and bonnet. Les bains chinois were built in 1787 by Samson-Nicolas Lenoir

Fashionable couple on the terrace of the Tuileries, Paris, Year VI, 1798. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V. after an illustration by Francois Courboin from Octave Uzannes Fashion in Paris

Native fuchsia, lilac and pepper
Native fuchsia, Correa speciosa, native lilac, Tetratheca glandulosa, native pepper, Tasmannia aromatica with green mantis, Mantis religiosa var

Margin-winged stick insect and red epacris
Margin-winged stick insect, Ctenomorpha chronus, and red epacris, Epacris impressa. (Walking stick mantis, Phasma sp.) Chromolithograph after an illustration by Louisa Anne Meredith from her book

Fossil shell of baculite or walking stick rock, an extinct cephalopod mollusc genus. Baculites vertebralis. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Rear view of fashionable womans dress, era of Marie Antoinette. Copperplate etching by Auguste Etienne Guillaumot from Costumes et coiffures du XVIIIe siecle

Woman in white dress with yellow trim with fan
Woman in white dress with yellow trim, yellow slippers, yellow and violet hat, with fan. Handcoloured lithograph by A. Lacourriere after an illustration by Francois-Claudius Compte-Calix from Les

Woman in white tunic dress trimmed with lilac velvet, velvet hat with lace veil, and yellow fichu. Handcoloured lithograph by A

Sarah Elizabeth, Susannah and Sophia Copley, daughters of John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst. Two younger sisters playing with the ringlets of the oldest sister Sarah

Woman in lilac dress looking at herself in a mirror
Woman in lilac muslin silk dress with black velvet vest looking at herself in a mirror. Deshabille de mousseline de soie glycine drape et borde de fourrure, petite casaque de velours noir frappe

Woman in long coat of chincilla fur with lampstand
Woman in long coat of chincilla fur, wide brimmed hat with feathers, fixing a lampstand. Grand manteau de chinchilla. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil)

Lilac bonnet and violet chanterelle
Lilac bonnet, Mycena pura, and pigs ears or violet chanterelle, Gomphus clavatus, (Craterellus clavatus). Chromolithograph by Lassus after an illustration by A

Hibiscus species
Military hibiscus, Hibiscus militaria, Mr. Camerons hibiscus, Hibiscus cameroni fulgens, lilac hibiscus, Hibiscus lilacinus, and palmate hibiscus, Hibiscus manihot

Australian violet lilac, Prostanthera violacea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke from Conrad Loddiges Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, 1828

Achimenantha x naegelioides, lilac cultivar (Eucodonia naegelioides lilacinella). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Lilac, Syringa vulgaris, and calligraphic poem. Chromolithograph by Louis Prang from Alice Ward Baileys Flower Fancies, Boston, 1889

Flowers from Bombay, India. Flame lily, Gloriosa superba, black-eyed Susan vine, Thunbergia alata, golden champak, Magnolia champaca and lilac hibiscus, Hibiscus lilacinus

Womans shoe design in lilac leather and snakeskin, 1930
Womans shoe design in lilac leather and snakeskin within an art deco abstract border. Chromolithograph from Andre Camys La Chaussure d Art, The Art Shoe, August-September, Paris, 1930

Lilac, Syringa vulgaris
Le Lilas. Lilac, Syringa vulgaris. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses

Lady Josikas lilac, Syringa josikaea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by Mills from Benjamin Maund and the Rev. John Stevens Henslows The Botanist, London, 1836

California lilac, Ceanothus species (Ceanothus of the hills, Ceanothus collinus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by Mills from Benjamin Maund and the Rev

Double lilac primrose, Primula vulgaris (Primula acaulis fl. pleno carneo). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sansom from William Curtis Botanical Magazine, London, 1793

Indian lilac, nim or neem, Azadirachta indica (Melia azadirachta). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley

Devils trumpet, Datura stramonium 1, 2, and lilac, Syringa vulgaris 3, 4. (Stramonia, Syringa.) Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Mario Cammerari from Professor Filippo Arenas La natura e

Woman in a garden on a cutout Christmas card
Woman in a garden on a cutout three-dimensional Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

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