Butter Fly Collection

Madame Butterfly
Cover of the score of Madame Butterfly by Puccini

The Pipes Of Pan, by Elsie Harding
Colour illustration showing a dream-like scene of a piper playing for a beautiful lady with butterfly wings

Red Admiral Butterfly
The RED ADMIRAL and other English butterflies

Red Admiral Butterfly
RED ADMIRAL & PEACOCK BUTTERFLIES. Their brightly coloured wing markings are shown clearly

Countryside Flowers and Butterflies
Red Admiral and Peacock Butterflies amid a mass of vegetation including berries, rosehips, ivy and holly

Madam Butterfly
A female attendant helps Madama Butterfly to dress

I kiss your little hand, madame, by J. Nicolson
Illustration of a glamorous lady catching butterflies

The Sketch Summer Number front cover, 1933
Stunning, graphic, art deco style front cover designed by Erte with stylised flowers, butterflies and a face in profile

Tom Thumb + Butterfly
He rides on the back of a butterfly

Circular countryside scene
A watercolour painting by Malcolm Greensmith showing a typical English rural countryside setting of a half-timbered cottage set amid fields, surrounded by fauna in the shape of a passing Cuckoo

Rural scenery with wildflowers
A red Admiral Butterfly flies above a hedgerow border of wildflowers in this landscape painting by Malcolm Greensmith, encapsulating the English countryside

The Red Moth by William Barribal
A showgirl in a fabulous stage costume with enormous butterfly wings plays to a theatre audience

The Butterfly by Muriel Dawson
A little girl, knee deep in a field of wild flowers, picks some to make a charming bunch on which a Red Admiral butterfly lingers

Fan with Fairies
A highly ornamental lace folding fan by Duvelleroy of Paris with painted scenes depicting fairies by a pond & with sticks carved in imitation of feathers

Scene from the opera, Madame Butterfly, by Giacomo Puccini
The lead character, Cio-Cio San (Madame Butterfly) in Puccinis opera in three acts. Date: c.1910

Blanche Bates / Butterfly
Blanche Bates in the stage play Madam Butterfly by Long & Belasco on which the opera is based

Fairies by Hilda Miller
Enchanting illustration depicting a group of fairies holding hands and dancing through a field of flowers, while butterflies overhead mimic their dance steps

La Saison des Papillons by Nick
Charming illustration by Nick showing a young woman in a perfectly coordinated 1920s outfit with cloche hat, clasping her hands in delight as she looks a butterflies flitting in the air

Two Cats and a butterfly
Two siamese cats watch a tortoiseshell butterfly. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Pan Cover 1920
Illustration by Pizer on the front cover of Pan magazine, showing a couple in costume, the man dressed as harlequin and the woman wearing butterfly wings and headdress

Fairy casting a magic spell
Fantasy scene of a fairy casting a magic spell with her wand over a clump of buttercups as a Peacock Butterfly flaps serenely past

Monarch Butterfly
MONARCH BUTTERFLY (danais archippus)

White Butterfly
A black veined White Butterfly (Aporia Crataegi). Date: 1930s

Country Flowers and Butterflies
Many varieties of wild flowers with a Cabbage White and Tortoiseshell butterflies. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Puccini / Butterfly / Record
Complete on 16 records, at 4 shillings and sixpence each, or complete for three pounds and twelve shillings - at least 100 pounds in todays money !

Puccini Butterfly Letter
Finally, a letter from Pinkerton

Girl Daydreams 1880
A girl pauses from her reading and daydreams of faries for a while. She sits in a hammock with her doll disgarded below

Thumbelina drawn by a butterfly down a stream
Thumbelina, standing on a leaf, is drawn downstream by a butterfly. Illustration to a fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen, first published 1835

Holly Butterfly 1860
The HOLLY and other English butterflies

Heath Butterfly 1860
The HEATH and other English butterflies and moths

Peacock Butterfly
Metamorphosis of the PEACOCK butterfly (Vanessa Io.)

Hampstead Eye Butterfly
Albins Hampstead Eye

Wendy Craig, English actress, with butterflies
Wendy Craig (b 1934), BAFTA award-winning English actress, seen here posing with butterflies, a reference to the popular sitcom Butterflies in which she starred between 1978

Landscape with distant mountains
A landscape consisting of wild flowers and Butterflies in the foreground, a meandering stream leading down intoa valley and distant water and mountains. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Butterfly Bombs Warning Notice, Italy, 1944
Photograph of a British sargeant looking at a warning notice, regarding Butterfly anti-personnel mines in Italy, during the Second World War

Hat & Mask in One 1929
Dual purpose headwear: cloche hat worn so low over the eyes that it doubles as a mask. Eyeholes are cut in the crown. Perfect hat for hiding upper facial flaws

Cabbage White Butterfly
The CABBAGE WHITE and other English butterflies

Painted Lady Butterfly
The PAINTED LADY and other English butterflies

Chinese magpie wallpaper design
Wallpaper design featuring birds perched on branches, surrounded by colourful flowers and butterflies. Date: 1922

Brightly coloured floral pattern with butterflies
Fabric design featuring vibrant floral pattern with blue butterflies. Date: 1922

Butterfly amidst flowers 2011

Butterflies amongst the flowers 2011

Unidentified butterfly

Thumbelisa

Day Dreams
A young child in a garden in the sunshine gazes at a butterfly Date: circa 1910

Summer and autumn

Dogs chasing a butterlfly

Grandpas cottage

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