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Marie Loftus music hall dancer and singer 1857-1940Marie Loftus music hall dancer and singer, pantomime star. Reputation for singing risqu songs. Mother of Cissie Loftus, music hall mimic. In costume holding rose
Jennie Benson music hall comedienne and mimicJennie Benson comedienne and mimic. Known for her character studies. Dressed as a soldier during the First World War in greatcoat and cap, smoking a cigarette. Signed card. Date: circa 1917
Victoria Palace Theatre playbillFront and back page of a promotional booklet for the Victoria Palace Theatre, London for the week commencing December 19th, 1927
Daisy Jerome music hall mimic, comic singer and dancerDaisy Jerome music hall mimic, toe dancer and wooden shoe dancer. A comic singer with a reputation for sauciness. Here depicted in a toe dancing pose wearing ballet shoes
Cecilia Loftus music hall mimic 1876-1943Cecilia (Cissie) Loftus music hall mimic. Daughter of Marie Loftus music hall singer. In costume of long black fitted dress with full skirt, long black gloves and hat. Holding a tambourine
Pierid butterfliesCommon jezebel, Delias eucharis 1, cattleheart white, Archonias brassolis 2, tiger mimic white, Dismorphia amphione 3, wood white, Leptidea sinapis 4
Great eggfly and perseis mimic forester butterfliesGreat eggfly or blue moon butterfly, Hypolimnas bolina, female Nymphalis jacintha 1, 2, and perseis mimic forester, Euphaedra perseis Nymphalis perseis 3, 4. Handcoloured lithograph from John O
Crisia mimic white, Drurys delight and bonasia acraeaCrisia mimic white, Dismorphia crisia 1, 2, Drurys delight, Mesoxantha ethosea 3, 4, and bonasia acraea, Acraea bonasia 5, 6, dorsal, ventral. Handcoloured lithograph from John O
Charles Mathews playing six parts in StoriesCharles Mathews, comic actor, playing six parts in Stories, showing his distinctive appearance, lop-sided mouth and remarkable gift for mimicry. 1822
Dancing welder with sculptureWelder and steel fabricator Mike Dennis mimics metal dancing sculptures in his Birmingham workshop. He adopts the pose of the dancing figures. First published The Independent Date: circa 1987
Jane May actress and mimicJane May French actress known as Mlle Jane May. Wearing peaked cap and uniform. Card signed and dedicated to Phyllis Broughton, herself an actress
Douglas XB-42 Mixmaster -an overly complicated looking effort to mimic the performance of the DH Mosquito
Phyllium sp. Oriental leaf insectLeaf insects are characterised a green or brown, flattened body which closely resembles the foliage on which they live
Cissie Loftus - Scottish actress and singerCecilia " Cissie" or " Cissy" Loftus (1876-1943), Scottish actress, singer, mimic, vaudevillian, and music hall performer. 1890
Blackburn Roc-a woeful attempt to mimic all the shortfalls of the Boulton Paul Defiant onto a carrier-going fighter
The Lifelyke stilted giraffe lurer by Heath RobinsonThe Lifelyke stilted giraffe-lurer, part of a series called Very Patent Aides to Sport by William Heath Robinson in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
WWI - What a Pleasure to be a Soldier! Two cheeky (and rather rotund) Geman privates mimic their commanding officer and his hands-on-hips pose - with considerable comic effect!
Misumena vatia, flower spiderFemale flower spiders can adapt their colour to match the flowers they hide on in order to ambush their prey
Creobroter meleagris, flower praying mantisFlower praying mantises come from Africa and the Far East. They so closely mimic flowers that insects often land on them to collect nectar
Hypolimnas misippus, diadem butterflyPhotograph of a diadem butterfly (Hypolimnas misippus) collected from the South American and Old World Tropics
Street music: A bird mimic, 1816A street musician who mimics the notes of common English birds by means of a folded bit of tin, which is held between the teeth; but in order to engage the attention of the credulous
Children with their GuyChildren parade their guy through the streets : note its hat - an attempt to mimic the papal tiara, a sign of the surviving anti-papal significance of the tradition
