Anna Gallery

Anna May Wong in The Circle of Chalk

Miss Anna May wong as Chang-Hi-Tang dancing before the tea-shop keeper in The Circle of Chalk, an ancient Chinese lay translated into English by James Laver and produced at the New Theatre in London by Mr. Basil Dean, with a cast headed by Anna May Wong as Chang-Hi-Tang, a young girl who is sold to a tea-house by her poverty striken mother. Date: 1929

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Italy - Naples - Palace of Donn'Anna

Villa Donn'Anna, Naples - The building is on the site of the so-called "Rocks of the Siren" and was originally called "La Villa Sirena". It changed hands a number of times, finally being inherited in 1630 by the woman whose name it now bears, Anna Stigilano, who then married the Spanish viceroy of Naples. She had the building re-modelled by the architect Cosimo Fanzago in the 1640s and since that time, the building has been called Villa Donn'Anna

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Cyclamen persicum plant as motif in designs

Cyclamen persicum plant as motif in designs for tapestry, fabric and wallpaper. . Lithograph by Anna Martin with pochoir (stencil) handcoloring from Eugene Grasset's Plants and their Application to Ornament, Paris, 1897. Eugene Grasset (1841-1917) was a Swiss artist whose innovative designs inspired the art nouveau movement at the end of the 19th century

© Florilegius / Mary Evans