Poison Collection

Labour Party election posters and television speakers
Labour Party election posters and speakers for Labours series of five short television programmes in the run-up to the General Election of 8th October 1959 (which the Conservatives won)

Cauliflower coral mushroom, Ramaria botrytis, edible.. Chromolithograph by C. Krause from Fritz Leubas Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms, Neuchatel, Switzerland, 1890

Egyptian Cobra
Egyptian or Brown Cobra

Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine and Rosamund Clifford
Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of King Henry II, and Rosamund Clifford, the kings mistress, in Woodstock Park, Oxfordshire

Snow morel, Gyromitra gigas, and hooded false morel, Helvella infula, edible.. Chromolithograph by C. Krause from Fritz Leubas Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms, Neuchatel, Switzerland, 1890

Half-free morel, Morchella semi-libera, Mitrophora semilibera, edible.. Chromolithograph by C. Krause from Fritz Leubas Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms, Neuchatel, Switzerland, 1890

Honey mushroom, Armillaria mellea, Agaricus melleus, edible.. Chromolithograph by C. Krause from Fritz Leubas Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms, Neuchatel, Switzerland, 1890

Curare, Chondrodendron tomentosum
Curare, Parreira brava or abutua, Chondrodendron tomentosum. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants

Deadly nightshade, Atropa belladonna. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Cover of Police Mag. 1933
Magazine cover showing a dangerous masked woman

Coral Snake
Latin name: Elaps Corallinus

Fools parsley, hemlock and northern water hemlock
Fools parsley, Aethusa cynapium 1, hemlock, Conium maculatum 2, and northern water hemlock, Cicuta virosa 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

False chanterelle, Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca, dubious.. Chromolithograph by C. Krause from Fritz Leubas Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms, Neuchatel, Switzerland, 1890

Poison tanghin or ordeal tree, Tanghinia venenifera.. Illustration by Lady Frances Cole, engraved by Swan. Handcolored copperplate engraving from William Curtiss The Botanical Magazine

Matron Instructs Nurse
A Matron (distinguished by her head gear) explains a piece of equipment to a nurse. Note the bottle of poison on the left

Victorian Wallpaper - in popular emerald green - which contained poisonous arsenic. William Morris, famed for his wallpaper designs

Deadly nightshade and black nightshade
Deadly nightshade, Atropa belladonna, and black nightshade, Solanum nigrum (Solanum hortense). Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Painted coral snake, Micrurus corallinus, native to Brazil. Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmanns Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1848

Sago palm or Japanese sago palm, Cycas revoluta
Sago palm, king sago, sago cycad or Japanese sago palm, Cycas revoluta, Cycas. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lagesse after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A

Blood lily, Scadoxus multiflorus (Haemanthus multiflorus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell from Samuel Curtis Botanical Magazine, London, 1818

May apple, mandrake or wild lemon, Podophyllum peltatum. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants

Japanese star anise or shikimi, Illicium anisatum. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

HMS Stalker, a Mk. III LST
HMS Stalker, a Mark III LST (Landing Ship, Tank), previously known as LST 3515, seen at the Pounds of Portsmouth scrapyard circa 2006

Tecton Bomb Shelter Design 7, 600 People
An architectural design showing a sectional view of a bomb shelter that can contain 7, 600 people, numbers indicate features including the entrance ramps, air-lock and first raid post

Effects of poison gas on the Western Front, WW1
Gassed, drawn from nature no. 1 pencil study by John Singer Sargent Date: 1914-1918

Socrates (c 469399 BC). Classical Greek Athenian philosophe
Socrates (c.469-399 BC). Classical Greek Athenian philosopher. Socrates in prison before being sentenced to death. Colored engraving

False death cap, Amanita citrina, Agaricus mappa, poisonous.. Chromolithograph by C. Krause from Fritz Leuba's Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms, Neuchatel, Switzerland, 1890

Spanish Civil War No Enveneneis A La Infancia
spanish, civil, war, no, enveneneis, a, la, infancia, don't, poison, children, propaganda, poster, from, the, republican, side, federacion, iberica, de, juventudes, libertarias, iberian

Ann Spranger Barry as Sophonisba
ANN SPRANGER BARRY (1734 - 1801) the actress as Sophonisba in James Thomson's play of that name : she has just drunk (intentionally) a cup of poison and will shortly die, picturesquely. Date: 1778

AMERICAN TOBACCO GROWER
An American tobacco grower sits leaning on a barrel of the tobacco which will be sent away to poison the lives of millions of wretched victims doomed to a miserable death Date: 1871

BOADICEA (SINGLETON)
QUEEN OF THE ICENI, After defeat by Romans (led by Suetonius). She later takes poison and dies. Date: ? - 62

Agaricus Muscaricus mushrooms (poisonous). Date: 19th century

Comic postcard, Little boy and barman Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two men drinking in a pub. You don t pay for drinks in this pub, you just sign the poison book! Date: 20th century

Italian maple, Acer opalus, Ital. L Erable opale. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Pierre Joseph Buchoz Les dons merveilleux et diversement colories de la nature dans le r?

Asian blue forest scorpion and Italian scorpion
Asian blue forest scorpion, Heterometrus cyaneus (Buthus reticulatus) 1 and Italian scorpion, Euscorpius italicus (Scorpio italicus) 2

Shaggy gastrolobe or crinkle-leaved poison, Gastrolobium villosum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by G. Barclay after Miss Sarah Drake from John Lindley

Red hempnettle, Galeopsis ladanum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1801

Common or garden nightshade, Solanum nigrum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1799

Sheathed woodtuft and rooting poison pie
Sheathed woodtuft, Kuehneromyces mutabilis (Pholiota mutabilis) and rooting poison pie, Hebeloma radicosum (Pholiota radicosa). Chromolithograph by Lassus after an illustration by A

Emperor scorpion, Pandinus imperator (Buthus afer), native to Africa. Handcolored engraving by Lebrun after an illustration by Vaillant from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d Histoire

Pinktoe tarantula and trapdoor spider nest
Pinktoe tarantula, Avicularia avicularia (Mygale avicularia), and nest of a trapdoor spider, Mygale coementaria. Handcolored engraving by Corbie after an illustration by Blanchard from Charles d

Cascabel rattlesnake and desert horned viper
Cascabel rattlesnake, Crotalus durissus, and desert horned viper, Cerastes cerastes (Cerastes cornutus). Handcolored engraving by Madame Fournier after an illustration by Oudart from Charles d

Hemlock, Conium maculatum. Handcoloured woodblock engravings from James Mains Popular Botany, Orr and Smith, London, 1835. James Main (1775-1846) was a Scottish gardener, botanist and writer

Monkshood or Aconitum species
Various-leaved monkshood, Aconitum heterophyllum, yellow monkshood, A. anthora, pale yellow monkshood, A. ochroleucum, Carpathian purple wolfsbane, panicled monkshood, A. paniculatum, A

Poison gooseberry, Withania somnifera, and bladder cherry, Physalis alkekengi. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Strophanthus gratus (Roupellia grata). Woodcut by A. E. Smith after an illustration by Gardchron from Jean Lindens l Illustration Horticole, Brussels, 1888

Poison arrow plant, Acokanthera oppositifolia (Toxicophlaea thunbergii). Chromolithograph by Pieter de Pannemaeker from Jean Lindens l Illustration Horticole, Brussels, 1885

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