Hesperis Collection

Honesty, Lunaria annua (Lunaria biennis). Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896

Rocket, Hesperis matronalis. Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896

Scentless dames violet, Hesperis inodora. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1800

Rocket and candy tuft species
Large-flowered garden rocket, Hesperis grandiflora, showy rocket, Hesperis speciosa, fragrant rocket, Hesperis fragrans, seaside malcomia, Malcomia littorea, field moricandia, Moricandia arvensis

Dames violet varieties, Hesperis matronalis. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Jujube and Virginia stock
Jujube or Chinese date, Ziziphus jujuba 1, and Virginia stock, Malcolmia maritima 2. Jujubier, Julienne. Handcoloured steel engraving by August Dumenil after an illustration by A

Curtis British Entomology Plate 435
Coleoptera: Cardiapus mathewsii = Mantura matthewsi (Matthews?s Haltica) [Plant: Hesperis matronalis (Hesperis inodora, Scentless Damewort)] Date: 1824-39

Large-flowered dames violet Hesperis grandiflora.. Illustration by Sowerby, one of the famous dynasty of natural history illustrators founded by James Sowerby

Eleftherios Venizelos on board Hesperis, Salonika, WW1
Eleftherios Venizelos (1864-1936), Greek politician, who served as Prime Minister 1910-1920 and 1928-1932. Seen here (left) on board the Hesperis at Salonika during the First World War

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