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Flowers from Mahabaleshwar

Flowers from Mahabaleshwar (Mahabulashwur). Elephantine creeper, Argyreia nervosa, barberry, Berberis vulgaris, lily, etc. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Emily Eden from Flowers from an Indian Garden: Second Series: Hope, Breidenbach Co, Dusseldorf, 1860s. Eden was an English female aristocratic writer, novelist and traveler who accompanied her brother George in India from 1836 to 1842. Flowers from Mahabaleshwar (Mahabulashwur). Elephantine creeper, Argyreia nervosa, barberry, Berberis vulgaris, lily, etc. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Emily Eden from Flowers from an Indian Garden: Second Series: Hope, Breidenbach & Co, Dusseldorf, 1860s. Eden was an English female aristocratic writer, novelist and traveler who accompanied her brother George in India from 1836 to 1842. Flowers from Mahabaleshwar (Mahabulashwur). Elephantine creeper, Argyreia nervosa, barberry, Berberis vulgaris, lily, etc. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Emily Eden from Flowers from an Indian Garden: Second Series: Hope, Breidenbach & Co, Dusseldorf, 1860s. Eden was an English female aristocratic writer, novelist and traveler who accompanied her brother George in India from 1836 to 1842. Date:

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King swallowtail and Jamaican kite butterfly (endangered)

King swallowtail butterfly, Papilio thoas 1,2, and Jamaican kite swallowtail, Protographium marcellinus (endangered) 3,4. Handcoloured lithograph from John O. Westwood's new edition of Dru Drury's Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Bohn, London, 1837. King swallowtail butterfly, Papilio thoas 1,2, and Jamaican kite swallowtail, Protographium marcellinus (endangered) 3,4. Handcoloured lithograph from John O. Westwood's new edition of Dru Drury's 'Illustrations of Exotic Entomology,' Bohn, London, 1837. Date:

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London Life front cover 1966

Front cover of London Life magazine, the short-lived magazine which documented and encapsulated swinging sixties London, featuring Twiggy photographed with Justin de Villeneuve, her companion and manager from 1966 to 1973. Villeneuve began life as Nigel Jonathan Davies and worked as a hairdresser before meeting a teenage Twiggy.

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