Floral Collection

Client: John Craig - Model: Pattie Boyd
Client: John Craig - Dark cotton blouse with lace collar and cuffs - Model: Pattie Boyd - Shoot: January 12, 1965 (2/2) Date: 1965

Maria Callas in Dior
Maria Callas (1923-1977), American opera singer of Greek parentage pictured in the sitting room of her Milan home wearing a Christian Dior evening gown in floral print. Date: 1958

Dior dress and Fath suit, 1954
A dress in diaphanous floral chiffon with a 3D rose at the shoulder and a leather belt at the waist by Christian Dior. On the right is the braced silhouette of a tweed suit by Fath with vertical

Annual and Biannual flowers
A wonderful array of garden flowers in bloom including chrysanthemums, foxgloves (digitalis), hollyhocks, pansies, sweet peas, gladioli, iris, petunias and nasturtiums. Date: 1930

Mothers Gardener by Muriel Dawson
Charming illustration of a small girl in a white dress and pink sun hat carefully watering a lovely border of flowers in a garden. c.1925

Spring - Summer Wind by Herta Zuckermann
Girl with her arms filled with Spring flowers - painting by child artist Herta Zuckermann, student at the Vienna School for Arts and Crafts (Professor Cizeks course)

Tea, Camellia sinensis, native to China.. Handcolored stipple copperplate engraving by Barrois from a botanical illustration by Pancrace Bessa from Mordant de Launays Herbier General de l Amateur

PONIES SHOPPING
New Forest ponies " shopping" (much to one womans amazement) at Lymington in Hampshire, England

Lina Cavalieri, Italian opera singer and actress
Natalina (Lina) Cavalieri (1874-1944), Italian operatic soprano and actress. circa 1900

Orangier des Gcnes, Arancio di Genova
Tab. 8 from Histoire naturelle des Orangers 1818-1820, by Antoine Risso (1777-1845)

Autumnal Scene with Fairy & Blackberries
An autumnal folklore scene with a fairy, dressed in blue, sat amid the visible roots of a silver birch tree, holding a delicious-looking blackberry

Flower Market - Nice, Cote d Azur, France
Traditional Flower Sellers stall - Flower Market and L Opera - Nice, Cote d Azur, France. Date: circa 1920s

Design for Wallpaper in blue and white, with snowdrops in art nouveau style. Pencil and Gouache on heavy paper. Silver Studio. 1895

Lagonda advertisement, 1933 and Idare dress
Advertisement for Lagonda cars, Britains Thoroughbred - the ideal mode of transport for Ascot 1933, while the floral dress is by Eileen Idare of 50 Grosvenor Street. Date: 1933

Mosaic with arab and kufic caligraphy (top) on a wall of the Madrasa. Fes. Morocco

Covent Garden Royal Opera House in London. Floral Street is on the right. Date: 1947

Algeria - Woman smoking a nargile pipe
Algeria - woman smoking a nargile (Hookah Pipe)

Victor Stiebel / Dress
A design by Victor Stiebel: fine, crystal pleating is used for the full stiffened skirt of this printed paper shantung reception dress. The skirt has a ruffled organza petticoat

Flowers of July & August
Flowers of July and August

Miss Elizabeth Egerton-Warburton
Elizabeth Egerton-Warburton (1911 - 2002), later Viscountess Ashbrook photographed prior to her marriage to the Hon. Desmond Flower in November 1934. Date: 1934

Flame lily, Gloriosa superba.. Handcolored stipple copperplate engraving by Barrois from a botanical illustration by Pancrace Bessa from Mordant de Launays Herbier General de l Amateur, Audot, Paris

Strawberry Pickers

Evening Dresses / Worth
Sensually draped dresses with narrow beaded straps, square necklines & detailing over one hip - some with double or triple skirts, uneven hemlines & trains. N.B feather fans

Ananas comosus, pineapple
A photograph of the detail from one of the decorative ceiling panels from the roof of the Natural History Museums Central Hall. Showing Ananas comosus, pineapple

Damascena coccinea, portland rose
Painting by Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759-1840) from Les Roses Vol. 1, 1817. Illustration entitled Rosier de Portland./

Hotspur and his Wife
Act II Scene 3 Hotspur and his wife (Lady Percy)

Mary Quant Ginger Group dresses in Liberty print, 1964
Traditional Libert print used for a new-old look in Mary Quants Ginger Group collection. Fashioned in demure covered-up little dresses with pique collars and cuffs

Armenian Jerusalem sage, Phlomis armeniaca. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after J.T. Hart from John Lindley and Robert Sweets Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery, G. Willis, London, 1854

Harlequin flower, Sparaxis variegata (Variegated flowered synnotia, Synnotia variegata). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after Edwin Dalton Smith from John Lindley

Frog in human clothing on a French postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Fairies by Hilda Miller
Enchanting illustration depicting a group of fairies holding hands and dancing through a field of flowers, while butterflies overhead mimic their dance steps

The Pier - St. Annes-on-Sea, Lancashire. Date: 1906

Toilet Services, Real Wedgwood Ware, Plate 50, showing patterned washing bowls, jugs, soap dishes, and a slop pail far too nice to put slops in. Date: circa 1880s

Design for Cretonne with flowers. Watercolour on copy paper. Silver Studio. 1936

Design for Printed Textile with flowers. Watercolour on detail paper. Silver Studio. 1931

Design for Printed Textile with leaves and flowers in art nouveau style. Gouache on heavy paper. Silver Studio. 1895

Limonier sauvage, Limone sylvatico
Tab. 70 from Histoire naturelle des Orangers 1818-1820, by Antoine Risso (1777-1845)

Woman Smoking 1940S
A young housewife exhales a stream of smoke as she takes a break from her household tasks. By the end of World War Two, nearly half of the women in Britain had a smoking habit

Pin-Up in Gold Mules
Smiling blonde, wearing a white camisole top, a bold floral print skirt, a lace petticoat and gold peep-toe mules, shows a leg as she squats by a garden pond

60S Fashion / Floral Dress
A girl wearing a floral dress with white shoes and gloves holds a basket. Date: early 1960s

Girl in Mgb 1960S
A girl in a classic racing green MGB sports car. Introduced in autumn 1962, the MGB was originally available only as a convertible and proved to be an immediate hit

Art Nouveau Flowers
A decorative art nouveau motif of long-stemmed flowers in brown and black

Crimson Jacobean lily, Sprekelia formosissima. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after Edwin Dalton Smith from John Lindley and Robert Sweets Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery, G

Sarah Bernhardt - French Stage Actress
Sarah Bernhardt - French Stage (and early film) Actress (1844-1923) - The Divine Sarah - in La Princesse Lointaine by Edmond Rostand. The frame border is an ornate floral art nouveau design

Tea cup and saucer
Glazed porcelain tea cup, from a childs part tea-service, decorated with a painted band of flowers on an orange ground. Retailed in Australia c.1925-1935. Acquired from the original owner

German design, Spring and Autumn, after watercolours by H Schmidt. Date: circa 1910s

Stiff jasmine, Jasminum simplicifolium subsp Australiense
Stiff jasmine, Jasminum simplicifolium subsp. Australiense.. Handcolored stipple copperplate engraving by Barrois from a botanical illustration by Pancrace Bessa from Mordant de Launays Herbier

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