Dragonfly Collection (page 2)

Goblins on a lily pad on a Christmas and New Year card
Goblins having fun on a lily pad on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Waterside scene with birds on a greetings card with white and gold ornate border. Date: circa 1890s

Asilidae, robber flies

Two insects and a frog on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Temptation - A frog is teased by a beautiful Dragonfly girl, who dangles a fly (trapped in a web) Date: circa 1910s

Dragonfly and beetle on a Christmas card
Dragonfly and beetle playing in the grass on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Insects riding on a frog on a Christmas card
Two insects (a bee and a dragonfly) riding on the back of a frog on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Pink and yellow roses on a Christmas and New Year card
Pink and yellow roses with a dragonfly on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Cherub riding a swan on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Goblin and dragonfly on a New Year card
Goblin sitting on a lily leaf, trying to catch a dragonfly on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Frogs playing blind mans buff on a Christmas card
Five frogs playing blind mans buff on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Fairies boating on a river on a Christmas card
Two fairies boating on a river with the aid of dragonflies on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas and New Year card with flowers and birds
Christmas and New Year card in green, grey and red (front cover) with flowers and birds. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Girl fishing with dog on a greetings card
Girl fishing with a dog at her side on a greetings card. circa 1890s

Migrant Hawker (lower), Brown Hawker (upper)
Watercolour on vellum, c.late 17th century Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750). From the collection of Insect paintings by Dutch Artists 17th-19th Century. Held in the Library and Archives

Turanophlebia, fossil dragonfly
With a wingspan close to 7 cm, Turanophlebia is one of several dragonflies rrecorded from the Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone of Bavaria

Westland Wagtail -unfortunately, as with other types designed around the flawed ABC Dragonfly engine, the Wagtail was abandoned

Fossil of extinct tubeworm, dragonfly, lobster and fish.. Chromolithograph from Dr. Fr. Rolles Geology and Paleontology section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schuberts Natural History, Schreiber, Munich

Fossils of extinct Jurassic prawn, Aeger tipularius, and dragonfly, Aeschna grandis.. Handcolored lithograph from Dr. F.A

Dodo, Raphus cucullatus, with camel, dragonfly and dogfish.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from William Frederic Martyns New Dictionary of Natural History, Harrison, London, 1785

Narcissus flower fairy staring at his reflection.. Handcolored steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from Les Fleurs Animees, Flower Fairies, Paris

The return of the flower fairies.. Handcolored steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from Les Fleurs Animees, Flower Fairies, Paris

Title page illustration with flower fairies hanging from a plant.. Handcolored steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from Les Fleurs Animees

Two young lads check out de Havilland DH90A Dragonfly, G?
Two young lads check out de Havilland DH90A Dragonfly, G-AEWZ, of Silver City Airways at the 1956 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at Wisley on 15 July

Westland S51 Dragonfly 1A, G-ALIK, at the 1953 Royal Aer?
Westland S51 Dragonfly 1A, G-ALIK, at the 1953 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at Hatfield on 14 June

A Bell 47B-3, G-AKFB, Sir Balan, left, and a Westland S5?
A Bell 47B-3, G-AKFB, Sir Balan, left, and a Westland S51 Dragonfly at the 1953 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at Hatfield on 14 June

Oriental Egyptain Beauty wearing a Dragonfly Wing skirt
Oriental Egyptian Beauty wearing a Dragonfly Wing skirt, a very popular motif of the period in fashion and jewellery. The terminology was Plique-a-jour (French for " letting in daylight" )

Prince Chichibu of Japan (1902-1953), left, with Capt Geoffrey de Havilland alongside (possibly) a de Havilland DH90 Dragonfly in 1937

Westland Dragonfly HR1 of the Royal Navy

Westland Dragonfly with stretcher panniers

Westland Dragonfly

Westland Dragonfly 1A G-AMRE
Westland Dragonfly 1A, G-AMRE, a Westland demonstrator

Westland Dragonfly 1A G-ALIK
Westland Dragonfly 1A, G-ALIK

The first prototype Westland Dragonfly 1A G-AKTW
The first prototype Westland Dragonfly 1A, G-AKTW, the anglicised Sikorsky S-51

de Havilland DH90 Dragonfly VP-KCA of Wilson Airways
de Havilland DH90 Dragonfly, VP-KCA, of Wilson Airways

de Havilland DH90 Dragonfly, VT-AIE, belonging to the Maharaja of Indore

The first de Havilland DH90 Dragonfly G-ADNA
The first de Havilland DH90 Dragonfly, G-ADNA

Aeschna pilosa, dragonfiles
Plate 21, an illustration of two dragonflies from Libellulinae Europaeae 1840 by Toussaint de Charpentier

Detail of terracotta moulding of a dragonfly in the Waterhou
The Waterhouse Buiding at the Natural History Museum, London was designed by Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) and first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Dragonflies and Fish
Dragonflies from Libellulinae Europaeae by Toussaint de Charpenter, 1840. Fish from Voyage de la Coquille, Zoology Atlas II by Duperrey

Libellula depressa, broad-bodied chaser
A male broad-bodied chaser dragonfly (Libellula depressa). Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Plate 101 from the John Reeves Collection (Zoology)
Plate 101 from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China 1774-1856

Rose with butterfly and dragonfly
Plate 13 (mounted plates) from the John Reeves Collection of Entomological drawings from Canton, China

Cymatophlebia longialata, fossil dragonfly

Aeshna sp. dragonflies
Dragonflies illustrated and described by Toussaint de Charpentier in Libellulinae europaeae descriptae e depictae (1840)

Anax imperator, emperor dragonfly egg
This spindle-shaped egg of the emperor dragonfly is typical of a species that lays its eggs inside the stems or leaves of plants. Next to the egg is the prolarva

Sympetrum striolatum, common darter dragonfly
Emerging from the larval skin, which may take over two hours. The head and thorax begin to burst out of the larval skin

Plate 22 from Libellulinae Europaeae by de Charpentier
Illustration of dragonflies. Plate 22 from Libellulinae Europaeae illustrated and described by Toussaint von Charpentier (1780-1847), 1840

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