Poppy Collection

WW1 / C 1919 / POPPY FIELD
In Flanders Fields... The poignant scene of a field full of poppies after the First World War. (Illustration after original, image 10053676, by Willy Werner.) C.1919

Pink poppy
Decorative flower study by Jeannie Foord, of Pink Poppies. 1899

Shakespeare quotation on a greetings card (inside pages) -- Heaven give you many, many merry days (The Merry Wives of Windsor). With a colourful spray of flowers. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Rural scenery with wildflowers
A red Admiral Butterfly flies above a hedgerow border of wildflowers in this landscape painting by Malcolm Greensmith, encapsulating the English countryside

Wizard of Oz / Poppies
Dorothy and Toto fall asleep in the deadly poppy field

Flowers of July & August
Flowers of July and August

Plants / Papaver Rhoeas
Corn Poppy, or Corn Rose Poppy, or Field Poppy

Plants / Papaver Rhoeas
Corn or Field Poppy

The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London Date: circa 1987

Fairy Flowers by Florence Mary Anderson
" Fairy Flowers by Florence Mary Anderson. " Admire me. See how gorgeous I am", from The Secret of the Flowers by Edith M Coker." 1919

Yellow flowered California poppy, Eschscholzia californica.. Handcolored illustration by Edwin Dalton Smith engraved by Watts from Charles McIntoshs Flora and Pomona 1829

Papaver (Poppy), two varieties
Two varieties of Papaver (Poppy) -- Papaver flore pleno rubrum (Double Red) and Papaver Eraticum rubrum (Wild Red), drawn by Basilius Besler (1561-1629)

Poppies Daisies
Wild flowers: poppies, daisies and cornflowers

Papaver somniferum, Opium poppy
Drawing by Arthur Harry Church in 1904. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Wizatd of Oz / Poppy Field
Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion start to yawn and fall asleep amongst the poppies while the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman wonder what to do

Leaflet advertising Remembrance Day, 11th November 1927. Wear a Flanders Poppy - British Legion Appeals Department, 26 Eccleston Square, London SW1. Commemorative Art

Papaver sp. blue poppy
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Rural scene with honeysuckle and poppies
A pretty rural scene with pink honeysuckle, yellow primroses and red poppies growing by a stone wall, with a cornfield and a windmill in the background

Opium poppy varieties, Papaver somniferum, and Anemone mexicana. Papaver sativum flore saturate purpureo petalis laciniatis, Papaver sativum rubrum flore simplici

1st Earl Haig at a British Legion Poppy Factory
Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (1861-1928) - a senior officer of the British Army who commanded the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front in WW1 - pictured at the British Legion

Cinema advertisment: Disabled ex-servicemen making poppies for Earl Haig's Appeal in the 1920s Date: circa 1930s

Disabled ex-servicemen making poppies for Earl Haig's Appeal in the 1920s Date: circa 1930s

Cupid Imprisoned
This illustration depicts an old crone with a predatory owl upon her head, pulling along a cart decorated with poppy flowers, upon which sits a cage containing an imprisoned Cupid, the god of love

Lady Drummond
A portrait painting of Lady Drummond, who is seated modestly beside a vase of poppy flowers. Date: circa 1918

Poppies laid at The Cenotaph
Poppy wreaths laid at the Cenotaph memorial to the two World Wars on November 11 each year

Denis Healey, Labour politician, wearing a poppy
Denis Healey (Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey, b 1917), British Labour politician, served as Secretary of State for Defence 1964-1970 and Chancellor of the Exchequer 1974-1979

Clement Richard Attlee, Armistice Day procession
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee (1883-1967), British Labour politician, Labour Party leader 1935-1955 and Prime Minister 1945-1951

Manufacture of Opium in India
Raising revenue of opium saw large profits in the drug to China. Photograph showing an intermediate stage in the process of preparation

If ye break faith with us who die, we shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders fields. The mother, widow and little daughter of a British soldier who died early in World War One visit his

The Poppy Garden
An art nouveau style painting of a lady attending to her flowers

Gromwell varieties, Lithospermum species. Lithospermum flore caeruleo, Lithospermum seu Milium solis grenil, Lithospermum arvense radice alba, Lithospermum linariae folio sue Lingua passerina

Poppy anemones, Anemone coronaria. Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896

Lavatera trimestris and Malope trifida
Spanish lavatera, Lavatera trimestris, and large-flowered malope, Malope trifida var. grandiflora. Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden

Mexican poppy, Argemone grandiflora. Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896

Californian poppy, Eschscholzia californica. Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896

Acid weed or mermaids hair, Desmarestia dresnayi. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy, 1837

Hybrid poppy anemone, Anemone coronaria. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Pancrace Bessa from Charles Malos Guirlande de Flore, Garland of Flowers, Chez Janet, Paris, 1816

Sunflower, tournesol, Helianthus annuus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by D.G. after an illustration by Pancrace Bessa from Charles Malos Guirlande de Flore, Garland of Flowers, Chez Janet

Varieties of tulip, tulipe, Tulipa gesneriana. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by D.G. after an illustration by Pancrace Bessa from Charles Malos Guirlande de Flore, Garland of Flowers

Hybrid variety of poppy, pavot, Papaver rhoeas. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Pancrace Bessa from Charles Malos Guirlande de Flore, Garland of Flowers, Chez Janet

Man in dressing gown over yellow trousers and green waistcoat. Robe de chambre. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil) etching after an illustration by George Barbier from Tommaso Antonginis Journal des

Poet and Doctor Colonel John McCrae Memorial
McCrae, who served in the Boer War, is popularly remembered as the author of what is probably the best-known poem of the First World War -In Flanders Fields

Whereto the other with downward brow... Illustration by Florence Harrison to Tennyson s
Whereto the other with downward brow... Illustration by Florence Harrison to Tennysons poem, Dream of Fair Women. Date: c.1920

Bystander cover - Elsie Mackay (Poppy Wyndham)
Front cover of The Bystander magazine featuring a portrait of Elsie Mackay (1893-1928), aristocratic daughter of Lord and Lady Inchcape, actress, interior decorator and aviator

Mexican tulip poppy, Hunnemannia fumariaefolia
Mexican tulip poppy or fumitory-leaved hunnemannia, Hunnemannia fumariaefolia. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by Edward Dalton Smith from Robert Sweets

Alpine poppy, Papaver alpinum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by Edward Dalton Smith from Robert Sweets The British Flower Garden, Ridgeway, London, 1828

White Mexican prickly poppy, Argemone ochroleuca
White Mexican prickly poppy or straw-coloured argemone, Argemone ochroleuca. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by Edward Dalton Smith from Robert Sweets The

White Mexican prickly poppy or Large-flowered argemone, Argemone grandiflora. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by Edward Dalton Smith from Robert Sweets

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