Chocolate Gallery

Advertisement for Maison Lyons chocolates showing art deco style figures indulging in

Advertisement for Maison Lyons chocolates showing art deco style figures indulging in various sport and leisure activities. The advert appeared in a theatre production of Road House by Walter Hackett, staged at the Whitehall Theatre in 1932, and the activities reflect the kind of facilities on offer at road houses, which were a fashionable phenomenon of the 1930s. Date: 1932

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Cacao, cocoa or chocolate tree, Theobroma cacao

Sprig of the cacao, cocoa or chocolate tree, Theobroma cacao, with bean, fruit and seed. Copperplate engraving after an original illustration by Captain John Gabriel Stedman from his Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, J. Johnson, London, 1813. Date:

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America, Bean, Cacao, Captain, Chocolate, Cocoa, Copperplate, Engraving, Expedition, Five, Fruit, Gabriel, Illustration, John, Narrative, Negroes, Revolted, Seed, South, Sprig, Stedman, Surinam, Theobroma, Tree, Years

Exotic moths including the female promethea silkworm

Promethea silkmoth, Callosamia promethea (Saturnia promethea) female, dorsal 1, ventral 2, short-lined chocolate moth, Argyrostrotis anilis (Noctua anilis) 3, and figured tiger moth, Grammia figurata (Nemeophila figurata) 4. Handcoloured lithograph from John O. Westwood's new edition of Dru Drury's Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Bohn, London, 1837. Promethea silkmoth, Callosamia promethea (Saturnia promethea) female, dorsal 1, ventral 2, short-lined chocolate moth, Argyrostrotis anilis (Noctua anilis) 3, and figured tiger moth, Grammia figurata (Nemeophila figurata) 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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