Griffith Gallery

Corinne Griffith impersonates speed -The Lilies of the Field

Corinne Griffith (1894-1979), dancer and actress known as the orchid lady of the screen pictured in a scene from the Alexander Korda film, The Lilies of the Field. She plays a show-girl who takes part in a modernistic ballet mechanique and, dressed in silver tights, represented the figure of Speed on a radiator cap of a gigantic automobile. The men were dressed to represent robots.
1930

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Blue wildebeest, Connochaetes taurinus

Blue wildebeest, Connochaetes taurinus (brindled gnoo, Catoplebas gorgon). Handcoloured engraving by H. Kearsley after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith of a specimen in the Missionary Society Museum, London, from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1827. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans

Cape grysbok, Raphicerus melanotis rufescens

Cape or southern grysbok, Raphicerus melanotis rufescens. (Vlackte steenbock, Antilope rufescens). Handcoloured engraving by H. Kearsley after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith of a specimen in the British Museum from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1827. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans