Florence Collection

Fairy Revels
Enchanting illustration showing fairies dancing in a ring underneath a toadstool while pixies, elves and sprites watch and hold lamps. c.1925

Gozzoli, Benozzo di Lese, called Benozzo (1420-1497). Procession of the Youngest King. 1459-1460. ITALY. Florence. Medici Riccardi Palace. The Magi with Lorenzo the Magnificent and his retinue

Carta della Catena. View of Florence in 1490. Renaissance art. Painting. ITALY. Florence. Firenze Com era Historical and Topographical Museum

Dante Alighieri, Italian poet, sees his beloved Beatrice
Dante Alighieri, Italian poet, best known for his long narrative poem, the Divine Comedy, sees his beloved Beatrice Portinari on the Lung Arno, Florence

The Lady With The Lamp Florence Nightingale
A colour illustration from the 1890s depicting Florence Nightingale, English nurse and hospital reformer (1820-1910) at the barracks hospital, Scutari, in 1854 during the Crimean War

Fairies dance in a circle - Fairy Ring
He whistled to the merry elves, Were leaping in a ring

SANTI di TITO (1536-1603). Portrait of Niccolo Machiavelli. end 16th c. Renaissance art. Oil on canvas. ITALY. Florence. Palazzo Vecchio (Old Palace)

Ghost plant or Indian pipe, Monotropa uniflora. Monotrope a une fleur. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Colour Woodcut print. Florence Mary Anderson / Molly MacArthur (1893-1972) had two distinct styles of illustration. From the middle of the 1920s

Florence Nightingale
In Scutari, Florence Nightingale attends to a patient

Princess looking in a mirror
A princess looking in a mirror, from The Black Princess. 20th century

Fairies in flight by Florence Mary Anderson. 1915

Whither Away by Florence Mary Anderson
A group of delicate looking fairies and pixies ride around on dragonflies and bees. c.1925

Twinflower, Linnaea borealis, Linnea boreale. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence

The Moonchild by Florence Mary Anderson
A small, angelic looking child is carried through the sky in a basket held by a colourful group of fairies and pixies. c.1925

CELLINI, Benvenuto (1500-1571). Perseus. 1554

LEOPARDI, Giacomo (1798-1837). Italian writer
" LEOPARDI, Giacomo (1798-1837). Italian writer. Drawing according the funerary mask on the frontispiece of his " Opere" (Florence)."

Black truffle, Tuber melanosporum (Tuber cibarium, Tartufo commestibile, Lycoperdon tuber). Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze

Goddess Maat. 1312 -1298 BC. Represented with a feather in the head. Egyptian art. New Kingdom. Painting. ITALY. Florence. National Museum of Archaeology. Proc: EGYPT. Dayr al-Bahri

The Kings Castle by Florence Mary Anderson
" The Kings Castle by Florence Mary Anderson. " Once upon a time there was a king who lived in a castle", from Lillie and Zizi from The Black Princess

Fairies and toadstools, from The Dream Pedlar. 1914

Highland Fling by Florence Hardy
Two children, dressed in traditional costume, dance an energetic Highland fling

Snow is brought by the Fairy of the North Wind Date: early 20th century

Portrait of Anne Page Croft in Red Cross uniform, WW1
Portrait of Anne Page Croft in Red Cross uniform. She was War Treasurer and Secretary to the Ware Division of the British Red Cross until 1919. By Florence Kate Upton (1873-1922)

SUSTERMANS, Joost (1597-1681). Portrait of Galileo Galilei. ca. mid. 17th c. Detail. Renaissance art. Cinquecento. Oil on canvas. ITALY. Florence. Galleria degli Uffizi (Uffizi Gallery)

Woman suffrage headquarters in Upper Euclid Avenue, Cleveland - A. (at extreme right) is Miss Belle Sherwin, President, National League of Women Voters; B. is Judge Florence E

Florence Nightingale Monument
The Florence Nightingale Monument, Waterloo Place, Westminster, London (just off The Mall) - erected in memory of the famous Crimean War nurse, known as the Lady of the Lamp

Florence Desmond (1905-1993) English actress with Liberace (1919-1987) American musician

Nightingale & Owl
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE at home as a young woman with her pet owl, Athena

ANGELICO, Fra (1387-1455). The Virgin and Child with SS Dominic and Thomas Aquinas. 1424-1430. Renaissance art. Quattrocento. Fresco. RUSSIA. Saint Petersburg. State Hermitage Museum. Proc: ITALY

Florence / Ponte Vecchio
On the PONTE VECCHIO - shops and passers-by

Nightingale / Cole / Century
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Nurse, hospital reformer and philanthropist

Nightingale / Keene, Derby
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE nurse, hospital reformer, philanthropist : after her return from the Crimea

A Sail in the Moon Boat by Florence Mary Anderson
Illustration showing two children and a baby going for a ride on a crescent shaped moon surrounded by pixies and fairies. c.1920

Great argonaut, cuttlefish and flying squid
Great argonaut, Argonauta argo 1, cuttlefish, Sepia tuberculata 2 and European flying squid, Todarodes sagittatus 3. Polpo dell argonauta, Seppia tubercolata, Calamajo sagittato

Goose barnacles, Alepas species 1, 2, Pentalepas laevis 3, Pollicipes 4, and goose neck barnacle, Pollicipes pollicipes 4, 5, extinct Litholepas 6

Tribute - Return. Florence Mary Anderson / Molly MacArthur (1893-1972) had two distinct styles of illustration. From the middle of the 1920s

Rock-a-bye-baby - Illustration of traditional nursery rhyme. Artist: From Cassells Childrens Annual. Florence Mary Anderson circa 1920

The Prince and Princess by Florence Mary Anderson
" The Prince and Princess by Florence Mary Anderson. " We are so glad you could come to our party, said Lady Arabella, in Adventures in Magic Land from Dorothy Black." 1917

Fairy Flowers by Florence Mary Anderson
" Fairy Flowers by Florence Mary Anderson. " Admire me. See how gorgeous I am", from The Secret of the Flowers by Edith M Coker." 1919

Two fairies clasping each other, from The Password to Fairyland -- Then they flew together and clasped in a tight embrace. 20th century

Gold enamelled brooch, presented to Florence Nightingale by Queen Victoria, 1855. Gold, with diamonds and enamel, said to have been designed by Prince Albert The Prince Consort (1819-1861)

Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449-1494). An Old Man and his Grandso
Domenico Ghirlandaio (14491494). Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. An Old Man and his Grandson (ca. 1490). Tempera on wood. Museum of Louvre. Paris. France

Two women police officers in gas masks, London, WW2
Two women police officers in gas masks in London during the Second World War. One of them is Florence Bragg (joined November 1936). Date: 1940s

Etruscan warrior. 4th c. BC. Etruscan art. Sculpture on bronze. ITALY. TUSCANY. Florence. National Museum of Archaeology

LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452-1519). The Mona Lisa or La Gioconda. ca. 1503-1506. Renaissance art. Cinquecento. Oil on wood. FRANCE. Paris. Louvre Museum. Proc: ITALY. Florence

Giotto (1267-1337). Italian painter. Gothic. Last Supper, 1306. From Church of Santa Croce, Florence. Alte Pinakothek. Munich. Germany

Stationery, Hotel Royal Grande Bretagne, Florence, Italy. 1890s

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