Endymion Collection

ENDYMION
Endymion, beloved by the Moon- goddess Selene, sleeps - eternally young - on Mount Laetmus, where she visits him nightly, eventually bearing him fifty daughters

Cambridge blue and odd-spot blue butterflies
Cambridge blue butterfly, Pseudolycaena marsyas (Lycaena marsyas) and odd-spot blue, Turanana endymion (Lycaena endymion)

Plaque depicting Diana visiting Endymion. Chromolithograph by W. Griggs from Frederick Rathbones Old Wedgwood, the Decorative or Artistic Ceramic Work Produced by Josiah Wedgwood, Quaritch, London

Plaque of Endymion on the rock Latmos. Chromolithograph drawn by Grivell and lithographed by Parrot et Co. from Frederick Rathbones Old Wedgwood

Common bluebell, Hyacinthoides non-scripta (Endymion nutans). Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendals German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871

Diana led by Amore (cupid) falls in love with
Diana, the moon goddess, led by Amore (cupid) to fall in love with the sleeping shepherd Endymion. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano)

Naked youth sleeping in the shade of a tree. Perhaps Endymion, hunter or shepherd, as evidenced by the lance and dog. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum

Curtis British Entomology Plate 49
Hymenoptera: Trichiosoma laterale = Trichiosoma vitelline (Orange-margined Sawfly) [Plant: Hyacinthoides (Endymion) non-scripta (Hyacinthus non-scriptus, Wild Hyacinth)] Date: 1824-39

Hospital ships Atlas, Endymion, Castalia, at Long Reach
View of the Metropolitan Asylums Boards hospital ships Atlas (left), Endymion (centre) and Castalia (right) on the River Thames at Long Reach near Dartford, Kent

Roman sarcophagus. About 180 AD. The moon goddes Selene
Front side of Roman sarcophagus. About 180 AD. The moon goddes Selene and her lover Endymion. Chariot and horses of Selene Glyptothek. Munich. Germany

Roman Art. Relief of a sarcophagus depicting the myth of Endymion and Selene. 2nd century. Detail. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States

Porter and Van Dyck
ENDYMION PORTER Royalist statesman, depicted with the artist Van Dyck Date: 1587 - 1649

Endymion Porter (Cooper)
ENDYMION PORTER Royalist statesman, driven into exile during the Civil War Date: 1587 - 1649

Washington, Library of Congress Mural - Keats Endymion
Washington DC, USA - Mural - Poetry Series by Henry Oliver Walker (1843-1929). Found in the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building. Keats Endymion - The shepherd boy asleep on Mount Latmus

Garrulus glandarius, European jay
An European jay (Garrulus glandarius), taken in the U.K. Photographed by Frank Greenaway

Endymion, Library of Congress. Date c1901

HMS Endymion, Edgar-class cruiser, WW1
HMS Endymion, an Edgar-class cruiser, at sea during the First World War. Launched in 1891, took part in the Boxer Rebellion and the First World War during the Gallipoli campaign. Date: 1914-1918

Nurses inside the river ambulance Geneva Cross
Scene inside the river ambulance Geneva Cross. Along with two other river ambulances it was operated by the Metropolitan Asylums Board to transport smallpox patients from London down the Thames to

River ambulances Albert Victor, Geneva Cross, Maltese Cross
View of the river ambulances Albert Victor, Geneva Cross and Maltese Cross. They were operated by the Metropolitan Asylums Board to transport smallpox patients from London down the Thames to

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