Dryad Collection

Dryad, striped grayling and great sooty satyr
Dryad, Minois dryas, striped grayling, Hipparchia fidia, and great sooty satyr, Satyrus ferula. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel

Weir W-2, at RAF Hendon on 19 July 1951. G. & J. Weir of Cathcart in Glasgow were an established engineering company, founded in 1871, which built aircraft during the First World War

HMS Hazard and submarine cleaning
HMS Hazard, British Dryad-class torpedo gunboat and the worlds first submarine depot ship. Seen here are crew members cleaning submarines 1 and 4 of the flotilla. Date: circa 1905

Advertisement, Dryad Tea Waggon
Advertisement for the Dryad Tea Waggon, with three oak trays, on four plated swivel wheels, rubber tyred, with cane work. Very convenient for houses with long passages and for tea on the lawn

Advertisement, Dryad Cane Furniture
Advertisement for Dryad Cane Furniture, showing three little girls in a garden, sitting inside a wide cane chair. Date: July 1914

Page from An Album of International Air Liners for cigarette cards issued by John Player & Sons, featuring the British aeroplanes Imperial Airways Empire Flying-Boat Caledonia; Imperial Airways Liner

Folklore / Dryads
A Dryad leans on a tree trunk Date: 1913

Dryas Octopetala (Mountain Avens, White Dryas)
Dryas Octopetala (Mountain Avens, White Dryas, White Dryad), an arctic-alpine flowering plant of the Rosaceae family, with creamy coloured petals. Seen here growing in a rocky setting

A Wood Nymph or Dryad - a Russian-published postcard by an English artist (see source)

The Nymph of the Tree Top
A nymph, naked except for diaphanous drapery, stands above the tree tops surveying the forest below

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