Delight Gallery

Crisia mimic white, Drury's delight and bonasia acraea

Crisia mimic white, Dismorphia crisia 1,2, Drury's delight, Mesoxantha ethosea 3,4, and bonasia acraea, Acraea bonasia 5,6, dorsal, ventral. Handcoloured lithograph from John O. Westwood's new edition of Dru Drury's Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Bohn, London, 1837. Crisia mimic white, Dismorphia crisia 1,2, Drury's delight, Mesoxantha ethosea 3,4, and bonasia acraea, Acraea bonasia 5,6, dorsal, ventral. Handcoloured lithograph from John O. Westwood's new edition of Dru Drury's Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Bohn, London, 1837. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans

My Dear ! ! by H M Bateman

Cartoon by the master of social satire, H. M. Bateman, showing three women gossiping over tea and cakes while a small dog looks on. Two of the women exchange salacious stories, the third has a look of shear delight and surprise. Date: 1936

© Estate of H M Bateman/ILN/Mary Evans Picture Library

1936, Amusing, Bateman, Cakes, Cartoon, Cartoons, Coffee, Dear, Delight, Dog, Exchange, Funny, Gossiping, Humorous, Humour, Master, Salacious, Satire, Shear, Small, Social, Stories, Surprise, Tea, Women

LORRIS, Guillaume. Roman de la Rose

The Romance of the Rose. s.XIV. The young lover, redeemer of the garden of delight, reaches a source and finds an inscription saying that there brother Narcissus died. Gothic art. Miniature Painting. SPAIN. Valencia. Valencia University Library

© J. Bedmar/Iberfoto/Mary Evans

Age, Ages, Art, Brother, Color, Colour, De, Delight, Died, Finds, Garden, Gothic, Guillaume, History, Illuminated, Inscription, La, Library, Lorris, Lover, Male, Man, Manuscript, Masculine, Medieval, Men, Middle, Miniature, Narcissus, Painting, People, Period, Person, Persons, Reaches, Redeemer, Roman, Romance, Rose, Scene, Source, Spain, University, Upright, Valencia, Vertical, Western, Xiv, Young