Beautiful Collection (page 5)

Comic postcard, Woman on the beach. Everybodys enjoying the beautiful sunsets down here! Date: 20th century

Two fashion sketches from the London couture house of Ninette, 1927 - one afternoon frock with extensive embroideries and a beautiful fur coat Date: 1927

Red rock cod and red handfish
Red rock cod, Scorpaena papillosa and red handfish, Thymichthys politus (ruby fish, Scorpoena cruenta, and tortoiseshell fish, Cheironectes politus)

Battle over the corpse of Patroclus outside Troy
Greeks and Trojans battle over the naked corpse of Patroclus outside Troy. Menelaus and Ajax protected the body until Achilles could retrieve it. Combattimento pel Cadavere di Patroclo

A man offers his friend his beautiful slavegirl. Two friends watch a woman sleeping in a four-poster bed. Les deux amis. After Athenaeus

Ypres battlefields Entry Point South, Palingbeek
Three Entry Points (North, East and South) to walking tours covering many points of interest in the Salient were created for the 100th Anniversaries, each with an unmanned Information Centre

Studio portrait photograph of beautiful young woman
Studio portrait photograph of a beautiful young woman with a rose, sitting on an antique carved wooden table. Date: circa 1910

Iris Lockwood in Get a Load of This, London Hippodrome
Iris Lockwood, actress, model and later wife of theatre director and producer Robert Nesbitt, appearing in the London Hippodrome revue Get a Load of This wearing a dress by Norman Hartnell. Date: 1941

1930s woman in black with yellow background, Albert Bailey
Glamorous woman dress in black against a yellow background. Illustration by Albert Bailey. Date: c.1935

Advert for Hershelle clothing 1940
Advertisement for Hershelle womens clothing showing a woman in Yardleys of Bond Street seemingly so engrossed in the shops catalogue

51st Highland Division Memorial, Schijndel, Holland
To British eyes this is probably the most beautiful traditional war memorial in Holland. It is a statue of a kilted Highlander looking down on a delightful young Dutch girl

Music cover, Lewiss Beautiful Tea, Waltz - Lewiss Department Store, Manchester. circa 1890

Miss Renee Merandon du Plessis (1916 - 2007), later The Hon. Mrs Langton Iliffe. Responsible with for rescuing and restoring Basildon Park in Berkshire. 1938

The Hon. Mrs Langton Iliffe, formerly Miss Renee Merandon du Plessis (1916-2007), responsible with for rescuing and restoring Basildon Park in Berkshire. 1939

Illustration, Aladdin and the Beautiful Buddir al Buddoor
Illustration, Aladdin and the Beautiful Princess Buddir al Buddoor, daughter of the Sultan. He falls in love with her and is determined to win her, despite his humble status. Date: 1950s

Bride in classic 1920s bridal dress, heavily influenced by the wedding attire of Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother). Date: circa 1924

Tamara Geva (1907 - 1997), Russian-American actress, ballet dancer and choreographer. She was the first wife of dancer/choreographer George Balanchine. Date: 1938

Romulea monadelpha (Beautiful ribbon flower, Spatalanthus speciosus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after Edwin Dalton Smith from John Lindley

Floor mosaic from the House of Epigrams, Regio V, Insula 1, 18. Chromolithograph by Victor Steeger after an illustration by Geremia Discanno from Emile Presuhns Les Plus Belles Peintures de Pompei

Mural from an atrium in the House of Tryptolemus, Reg. VI, Ins. VII, No. 18. Chromolithograph by Victor Steeger after an illustration by Geremia Discanno from Emile Presuhns Les Plus Belles Peintures

Portrait of a man and woman from an unidentified house in Pompeii. Chromolithograph by Victor Steeger after an illustration by Geremia Discanno from Emile Presuhns Les Plus Belles Peintures de Pompei

Mural with panel of theatrical masks from the tablinum of a house at VI.8.24.. Chromolithograph by Victor Steeger after an illustration by Geremia Discanno from Emile Presuhns Les Plus Belles

Mural from unidentified building in Pompeii. Chromolithograph by Victor Steeger after an illustration by Geremia Discanno from Emile Presuhns Les Plus Belles Peintures de Pompei

Map of the excavations of Pompeii, 1874-1881
Map of the excavations of Pompeii, showing the Insulae excavated between 1874-1881 in red. Chromolithograph by J.G. Bach after an illustration by Emile Presuhn from his Les Plus Belles Peintures de

The beautiful cattleya or azucenas, Cattleya quadricolor. Chromolithograph by Hatch Company after a botanical illustration by Harriet Stewart Miner from Orchids, the Royal Family of Plants

Beautiful lemonade seller on her Italian throne
The beautiful lemonade seller on her Italian throne, surrounded by her court of admirers

Corydalis species
Noble corydalis, Corydalis nobilis, bracteated corydalis, Corydalis bracteata, hollow-rooted fumitory, Corydalis tuberosa, long-flowered corydalis, Corydalis longiflora, beautiful dielytra

Erica species
Tumid heath, Erica tumida, Mr. Jacksons heath, Erica jacksonii, Dr. Neills heath, Erica neillii, Mr. Aitons heath, Erica aitoniana, Sir Joseph Banks heath, Erica banksiana, glowing heath

Siphocampylos and Leschenaultia species
Cavanilles siphocampylos, Siphocamylos cavanillesii, two-lobed leschenaultia, Leschenaultia biloba, beautiful leschenaultia, Leschenaultia formosa, grass-leaved stylidium, Stylidium graminifolium

Cistus species
Purple cistus, Cistus purpurea, sheathed-leaved cistus, Cistus vaginatus, beautiful cistus, Cistus formosus, Algarve cistus, Cistus algarvensis, and hoary-leaved rose cistus, Cistus incanus

The beautiful cattleya orchid, Cattleya quadricolor (Cattleya chocoensis). Drawn and chromolithographed by P. de Pannemaeker from Jean Lindens l Illustration Horticole, Brussels, 1873

Beautiful sunbird, Cinnyris pulchella
Beautiful sunbird or red-breasted sunbird, Cinnyris pulchella. Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines Naturalists Library: Ornithology

Beautiful sunbird and common spoonbill
Beautiful sunbird, Cinnyris pulchella, and common spoonbill, Platalea leucorodia. Soui-manga et Spatule. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Menevilles Dictionnaire

The beautiful Cactus, Horror. Handcoloured lithograph by Dean and Munday after an illustration by Eliza Eve Gleadall from The Beauties of Flora, with botanic and poetic illustrations

Pink coral fungus, Ramaria formosa
Pink coral fungus or beautiful clavaria, Ramaria formosa (Clavaria formosa). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by William Hamilton Gibson from his book Our Edible Toadstools

Beautiful firetail, Stagonopleura bella (Black-lined grosbeak, Fringilla bella). Illustration by H. Kearsley from a specimen in the Linnean Society Museum

Beautiful sunbird and southern double-collared sunbird
Beautiful sunbird, Cinnyris pulchella, and southern double-collared sunbird, Cinnyris chalybeus. Handcoloured lithograph by Burggraaff from Th

Rockrose, Halimium lasianthum subsp. formosum (Beautiful helianthemum, Helianthemum formosum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S

A beautiful studio portrait photograph of a 5 year-old girl, Elvere Routledge. circa 1920s

The Sketch Spring Number 1953
Front cover of The Sketch Spring Number featuring an illustration of a woman wearing a flower bedecked picture hat. Date: 1953

The Sketch Spring Fashion Number 1953
Front cover of The Sketch magazine by Strevens featuring a romantic illustration of an Edwardian lady. Date: 1953

A human peacock in his pride
Mr Cleveland Bronner, the American dancer and ballet master, appearing in a startling and beautiful Peacock Dance, and the Winter Garden and Century Roof, New York. Date: 1921

Gold and Black Studies - Miss Amy Wellesley
Miss Amy Wellesley by Bassano seated against a black and gold backdrop designed by The Sketch magazine. Date: 1912

Beautiful bride and page boys
Cover of Home Notes magazine: Special Wedding Number. The bride wears a floor length gown with an endless train, puff ball sleeves

A colourful and exotic gathering of animals
Elaborate illustration showing all manner of exotic creatures. 1933

Lady tending rose trees
Art Nouveau image of a beautiful young lady in fine clothes tending rose bushes. Date: circa 1920

Lady with feathered hat & muff
Art Nouveau image of a beautiful young lady in fine clothes. Date: circa 1920

Curtis British Entomology Plate 548
Hemiptera: Acanthia pulchella = Halosalda pulchella (Beautiful Acanthia) [Plant: Glaux maritima (Black Salt-wort)] Date: 1824-39

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