Floral Collection (page 77)

Grandville Honeysuckle
CHEVRE-FEUILLE honeysuckle (lonicera periclymenum) Date: 1847

Grandville Eglantine
EGLANTINE (rosa rubiginosa) Date: 1847

Evening dress 1918
Off the shoulder evening dress, with wrap around tassel on the waist and long tail. Date: 1918

Grandville Verbena 1847
VERVEINE vervain (verbena) Date: 1847

Bouquet / Flowers / Card
A greetings card with a floral design - pink roses and blue forget-me-nots tied with a real pink ribbon. Date: circa 1870

Flower Market
TRAITE DES FLEURS (flower market) featuring anemone, geranium, giroflee (wallflower) and renoncule (buttercup) Date: 1847

Grandville Narcissus
NARCISSE (narcissus) Date: 1847

Fulness of Joy Plate 2
Floral accompaniment to Psalm 16.11: a garland or swag, in the shape of a horseshoe, composed of daisies & grass. Date: circa 1880

Womens Costume Mid C17
Mourning Dress with a pointed bodice & a cloak-like garment with hood; a bodice with tabs, large slashed sleeves, lace falling collar, hitched up over-skirt & floral petticoat Date: mid 17th century

Decorative Floral
from NARCISSUS (egotism) to NIGHTSHADE (truth) Date: 1884

Floral top and jacket 1918
Matching large floral design top and jacket, with loose sleeves and trim neck and arms. Date: 1918

Britannia and Eve magazine, July 1933
Front cover illustration featuring a pretty blonde 1930s woman with a Bob haircut and short, solid fringe. She wears a floral patterned scarf tied to one side

Britannia and Eve magazine, April 1934
Front cover illustration featuring a glamorous 1930s woman wearing a lime green blouse with matching hat, and floral corsage

Britannia and Eve magazine, February 1935
Front cover illustration featuring a glamorous 1930s woman, wearing a dark collarless jacket, with white gloves and a dark hat with white floral trim. She holds a bouquet of purple pansies

Britannia and Eve magazine, June 1938
Front cover illustration featuring a beautiful bride, wearing a long white veil with floral detail and clutching a bouquet of white roses and gypsophila

Britannia and Eve magazine, October 1935
Front cover illustration featuring a glamorous 1930s woman waving with a handkerchief from a ship. She wears a blue suit and hat, along with a bright yellow neck-tie and matching floral corsage

Britannia and Eve magazine, September 1938
Front cover illustration featuring a glamorous 1930s lady wearing a tailored skirt suit and floral hat

Bridal fashion feature in Royal Wedding Number, 1923
The fashion column of the Illustrated London News in its special Royal Wedding Number, celebrating the marriage of the Duke of York (later King George VI)

In Summer Mood
Gorgeous illustration depicting a woman with long auburn hair wearing rational dress reminiscent of a medieval flowing gown. She walks through a garden filled with foxgloves in bloom

Ally-Fresco Fayre / Ally Sloper
Ally Slopper hosts a summer floral fete at South Kensington, to raise money for the Grosvenor Hospital

Normandy Costume, France - Bonnet from Bayeux

Sarajevo - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Woman and child
A Bosnian Turkish Muslim woman, her face completely covered by a white veil and her son, who wears some incredible floral trousers and a surprised gaze

The Bank of England - Art Nouveau Border
A rather ordinary photograph (apart from the provenance - see below!) of England, but set within a spectacular Art Nouveau border!

Girl and Boy sitting on cushions
A Brother and sister sit on cushions, their backs to a panelled wall in a watercolour sketch by Raymond Sheppard. There is also an additional pen and ink study (right)

Young girl sitting on stool
Girl in flowery dress sitting on stool. Pen & ink with watercolour wash by Raymond Sheppard

USA, Hawaii - three local women
Superb card depicting three Hawaiian beauties in traditional lack of costume!

Delightfully Turkish
A delightfully Turkish lady in purple dress with her small dog. A Valentines Card

Oriental Ottoman Beauty
An Ottoman beauty from Egypt, with large hooped earrings, beads, headdress and floral jerkin

Georgian Women in Baku, Azerbaijan

Horrockses cotton advertisement
Advertisement for Horrockses, the greatest name in cotton and the leading manufacturer of printed cotton textiles for clothing and furnishing during the 1950s

Evergreens and flowers by Pauline Baynes
The evergreens and flowers associated with English customs and legends depicted here by Pauline Baynes in a charming design

Pretty Japanese girl
A Pretty young Japanese girl in a floral kimono, posing seated at a table alongside some orchids

Bulgarian National Costumes. A couple at Ruse, Bulgaria (possibly about to get married??)

June Rose-Buds by A. K. Macdonald
Series of delicate vignettes by A. K. Macdonald featuring lithe young ladies in various states of undress, picking or enjoying the fragrance of voluptuous June roses

Hawaian girl, with floral garlands
A very early postcard depicting a Hawaian girl, with floral garlands around her neck and head

Floral Hall
The interior of the Floral Hall, Covent Garden - though there is not a flower to be seen, you can at least admire the architecture

Tophane Cesmesi Fountain, Constantinople, Turkey
The Tophane Cesmesi Fountain - one of the most famous of the baroque street fountains in the city. Built in 1732 by Mahmut I. Has marble walls, covered by floral designs and arabesques

A Malay Bride in South Africa in all her finery for the Big Day. A lot of immigrants fro South East Asia and India came to South Africa at the end of the 19th century

Eastbourne Pavilion
The Pavilion and Floral Hall, Eastbourne, East Sussex

The Sketch, April 1956
A coloured illustration for the front cover of The Sketch, depicting a couple embracing on a floral background

Decorative letter E
A large letter E with a pretty lady in a long pink floral gown resting against it

Invitation by Merlin Enabnit
Pin up girl by Merlin Enabnit (1903-1979) dressed in a floral print bikini and sitting by a birch tree. Enabnit was born in Des Moines, Iowa and was a successful commercial artist

A decorative oval floral border with British wildflowers. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Decorative Floral rectangular border
A decorative Floral rectangular border. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Marriage of Farouk I of Egypt - Ceremonial Procession
Part of the ceremonial procession to mark the marriage of Farouk I of Egypt (1920 - 1965) and Safinaz Zulficar (1921 - 1988), a pashas daughter (who was renamed Farida upon her marriage) in 1938

Woman by Lake 1959
A woman poses by a lake, formally dressed with hat & gloves

Girl in Bikini / 1947
Girl in floral bikini poses on a rugged fence while gazing dreamiily into the distance

Fashions for 1878
Girl: lace edged tunic with a pleated insert set into the back. Women: purple floral dress with train & square neckline; 2 colour costume with simulated waistcoat

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