Myrtle Collection

Sweet gale or Dutch myrtle, Myrica gale. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

Plants bearing fruits and seeds
Plants bearing berries and seeds including guava, membrillo, brazil nut, mistletoe, spotted laurel, cannonball tree, cactus, eucalyptus, myrtle, clove, caraway, coriander, hemlock, cumin, etc

Mrs Flash Kellett, wife of Lieutenant Colonel Edward Orlando Kellett and formerly Helen Myrtle Dorothy Atherley, drawn by Olive Snell

Crape myrtle, Lagerstromia indica. Handcoloured lithograph by D. Blair after an illustration by Lena Lowis from her Familiar Indian Flowers with Coloured Plates, L. Reeve, London, 1878

Ancient Greek method of mounting and riding a horse bareback. A cavalry man mounts a horse by holding lance and bridle in his right hand

Myrtle Street Military Hospital, Liverpool
The Liverpool Sheltering Home on Myrtle Street, Liverpool, during its First World War use as a military hospital. Date: circa 1916

A scene from the popular childrens play Where the Rainbow Ends at the Holborn Empire, London, 1926 with Myrtle Peter as Betty and Bobby Smith as Cubby Date: 1925

The dancers of Variety, 1929 1-2
The dancers of Variety, 1929 1/2 - Gilda Gray (top left), Rafaela and Manuelito (centre), Eleanor McLean (top right), Myrtle Pierce (Bottom right)

American warblers
Black-throated blue warbler, Setophaga caerulescens 1, 2, black-throated green warbler, Setophaga virens 3 and northern parula, Setophaga americana 4

Brazilian fuchsia, Justicia floribunda (Libonia floribunda). Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne

Indian almond, Terminalia catappa
Indian almond or Malabar almond, Terminalia catappa, Terminalia del Malabar. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Liverpool Female Orphan Asylum
An early view of girls in front of the Female Orphan Asylum on Myrtle Street, Liverpool. Date: 1840s

Miss Myrtle Farquarson
Miss Myrtile Farquarson, elder daughter of Lieut.-Colonel and Mrs. A. H. Farquarson by Madame Yevonde. Date: 1923

Myrtle and Melaleuca species
Splended fringe myrtle, Verticordia insignia, twiggy calythrix, Calythrix virgata, oleander-leaved melaleuca, Melaleuca neriifolia, scaly-branched melaleuca, Melaleuca squamea, and common myrtle

Myrtle spurge, Euphorbia myrsinites, and sea spurge, Euphorbia paralias. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Fossil skeleton of an extinct giant ground sloth, Megatherium americanum, and tea tree or honey myrtle bush, Melaleuca species

Oak and Myrtle (Measure for Measure). Handcoioured botanical illustration drawn and lithographed by Jane Elizabeth Giraud from The Flowers of Shakespeare, Day and Haghe, London, 1845

Chilean guava, Ugni molinae
Chilean guava or strawberry myrtle, Ugni molinae (Eugenia ugni). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Eastern baccharis, Baccharis halimifolia
Eastern baccharis, groundsel bush, sea myrtle or saltbush, Baccharis halimifolia. Handcoloured stipple engraving by Mlle. Brenet after an illustration by Pierre-Joseph Redoute from Henri Louis

Common myrtle, Myrtus communis. Handcoloured stipple engraving by Demachy after an illustration by Pierre-Joseph Redoute from Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceaus Traite des Arbres et Arbustes, Paris

Myrtle holly or myrtle dahoon, Ilex myrtifolia. Handcoloured stipple engraving by Delaneaux after an illustration by Pierre-Joseph Redoute from Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceaus Traite des Arbres et

Camphor myrtle, Babingtonia camphorosmae
Camphor myrtle or camphorwort babingtonia, Babingtonia camphorosmae. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Edwards Botanical Register

Rose myrtle, Rhodomyrtus tomentosa (Woolly-leaved myrtle, Myrtus tomentosa). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sansom after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards rom William Curtis Botanical

Curtis British Entomology Plate 763
Lepidoptera: Tortrix galiana = Aphelia viburnana (Sweet Gale Tortrix) [Plant: Myrica gale (Sweet Gale, Bog Myrtle)] Date: 1824-39

Il Pentamerone. Basile
THE MYRTLE The Prince and the Fairy. Date: First published: c.1630

Jamaica, Myrtle Bank Hotel, Kingston, after Great Earthquake
Jamaica, Myrtle Bank Hotel, Kingston, after the Great Earthquake of 14th January, 1907. Date: 1907

Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee 1897 - ILN cover
Cover of the Diamond Jubilee Celebration Number of the Illustrated London News, 1897, celebrating 60 years of Queen Victorias reign. Date: 1897

Myrtle Bank Hotel, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies, showing the entrance gates and courtyard. Date: circa 1902

Liverpool Boys Orphan Asylum Band
Members of the Orphan Asylum for Boys band, dressed in sailor suits and holding instruments. The Asylum, on Myrtle Street, Liverpool, opened in 1854. Date: 1890s

Stage and Society, 1921 featuring Madame Jorgen-Jensen of the Theatre Royal Copenhagen, who has made a success at the London Coliseum, the Countess of Rocksavage and Myrtle Farquharson Date: 1921

Lagerstroemia indica, Crape myrtle - By Franz Bauer, undated. Paper, pencil, colour pencil, watercolour. Unfinished Drawings of Plants, vol. 1, no. 125

Liverpool Sheltering Home, Myrtle Street, Liverpool

Flower fairies of tobacco, everlasting, olive, marvel of Peru.. Handcolored steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from Les Fleurs Animees

Sweet broom or Jews myrtle, Ruscus aculeatus.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by French botanist Jean Baptiste Francois Pierre Bulliard from Herbier de la France, Paris, 1780

Myrtle Newton, hotel driver, WW1
Miss Myrtle Newton of Cambridge who had accepted the post of motor car driver at the Kings Head Hotel in Cirencester on the understanding that by so doing she would release a man for service during

Practising the tango, 1913
Miss Myrtle Tannehill (aka Mrs Hale Hamilton) and Mr Arthur Collins pictured practising the new dance craze, the tango, on a tennis court somewhere rather pleasant looking. Date: 1913

Melaleuca viridiflora, weeping tea tree
Finished watercolour by Fred Polydore Nodder from an original outine drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

Melaleuca quinquenervia, punk tree
Finished watercolour by Fred Polydore Nodder from an original outine drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

Melaleuca angustifolia
Finished watercolour by Fred Polydore Nodder from an original outine drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

The Alhambra of Granada. Arrayanes or Myrtle

Myrtle Hazard

Famed American pianist Myrtle Elvyn Date: 1907

Metrosideros Lucida or Southern Rata
Metrosideros Lucida (Southern Rata), also known as Metrosideros Umbellata, belonging to the myrtle family, with bright red flowers consisting of many stamens. 1888

Pohotukawa, or Metrosideros Tomentosa
Pohotukawa (Pohutukawa), or Metrosideros Tomentosa, a coastal evergreen tree in the myrtle family with brilliant red flowers consisting of many stamens, native to New Zealand

Grandville Myrtle 1847
MYRTE myrtle (myrtis communis) Date: 1847

The Bicycle Tournament at the Myrtle-Street Gymnasium, Liver
Engraving of a Bicycle Tournament, held by the Liverpool Velocipede Club, at the Myrtle-Street Gymnasium, Liverpool, April 1869

Month of April C18Th
This month is honoured by a wreath of myrtle and burnt incense given as offerings to the goddess Ceres

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