Poppy Collection (page 2)

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

Finger poppy mallow, Callirhoe digitata (Digitate leaved nuttallia, Nuttallia digitata). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Bailey after a botanical illustration by Edward Dalton Smith from Robert

Yellowhorn poppy, Glaucium flavum (Chelidonium glaucium). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smiths English Botany, London, 1791

Yellow or Welsh poppy, Papaver cambricum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smiths English Botany, London, 1792

Mongrel poppy or round pricklyhead poppy, Papaver hybridum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smiths English Botany, London, 1792

Violet horned poppy, Roemeria hybrida (Chelidonium hybridum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from James Smiths English Botany, London, 1794

Roman metal vase, case, rings and pins
Metal vase found in Herculaneum, Naples 1, metal case adorned with silver, perhaps to store womens clothes, found in Herculaneum 2

Flowering plants including mammee apple, mangosteen, vateria, camphor, bacuri, white cinnamon, ironwood, poppy, violet, nepenthes, pitcher plant, venus flytrap, etc

Cultivated double varieties of poppy anemone, Anemone coronaria. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs

Poppy or Papaver species
Oriental poppy, Papaver orientale, alpine poppy, Papaver alpinum, orange-red poppy, P. rubro-aurantiacum, common Welsh poppy, Meconopsis cambrica, large-flowered prickly poppy, Argemone grandiflora

Prickly poppy, Argemone mexicana, and butcher s
Prickly poppy, Argemone mexicana, and butchers broom, Rustus aculeata. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Poppy anemone, Anemone coronara, and pasque flower, Pulsatilla vulgaris. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and horned poppy, Glaucium corniculatum. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Wild nigella, Nigella arvensis, and corn poppy, Papaver rhoeas. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Opium poppy and corn poppy
Opium poppy, Papaver somniferum 1 and corn poppy, Papaver rhoeas 13. Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmanns Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1848

Leaf vegetables and herbs, Herbes potageres et plantes condimenteires. Green and red basil, Ocimum basilicum, opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, thyme, Thymus vulgaris, and bay leaf, Laurus nobilis

Mexican poppy or flowering thistle, Argemone mexicana, Argemone du Mexique. Handcoloured steel engraving by Alphonse-Leon Noel after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar

Poppy anemone or Spanish marigold, Anemone coronaria, Anemone des jardins. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lebrun after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A

Small Flower or poppy (Romeo and Juliet). Handcoioured botanical illustration drawn and lithographed by Jane Elizabeth Giraud from The Flowers of Shakespeare, Day and Haghe, London, 1845

White opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

Red horned poppy, Glaucium corniculatum (Chelidonium corniculatum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes

Quince flower, Cydonia oblonga, and poppy
Quince flower, Cydonia oblonga, Icosandria, 1, 2, and poppy flower, Papaver rhoeas, Polyandria, 3, 4. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F

Red and violet poppies, Papaver species
Des Pavots rouges et violets. Red and violet poppies, Papaver species, and Chinese ring-necked pheasant, Phasianus colchicus

Le Pavot a fleurs doubles. Oriental poppy, Papaver orientale. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses

Hybrid poppy, Papaver or Meconopsis species
Le Pavot jaune a fleurs doubles. Hybrid poppy, Papaver or Meconopsis species. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus

Horned poppy, Glaucium flavum
Le Pavot cornu. Horned poppy, Glaucium flavum. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses

Eastern poppy, Papaver orientale. Handcolured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration from William Curtis The Botanical Magazine, Lambeth Marsh, London, 1787

Mexican argemone or prickly poppy, Argemone mexicana. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sansom after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards rom William Curtis Botanical Magazine, London, 1793

Opium poppy and Cretan milk-vetch
Opium poppy with seedpod, Papaver somniferum 1, and Cretan milk-vetch, Astracantha cretica 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Corn poppy, Papaver rhoeas. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Corn poppy or field poppy, Papaver rhoeas. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Flower fairies
Poppy fairies from the Masque of Flowers. Artist: Walter Crane Date: 1889

Artwork by Florence Auerbach, three red poppies. Date: late 19th century

Chinese workers picking poppies for opium. 1930s

Easter postcard with a vase of flowers. Date: circa 1930s

Cats with a basket of flowers on a postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Making a poppy chain
A group of young children in a field making a poppy chain. Date: 1912

Religious verse 1889
Religious verse, For the sunshine and the rain, for the dew and for the shower, for the yellow ripened grain, and the golden harvest hour, we bless thee O our God. by Mrs Crewson. 1889

Curtis British Entomology Plate 743
Lepidoptera: Diurnea novembris = Diurnea lipsiella (phryganella) (November Dagger) [Plant: Mecanopsis cambrica (Yellow or Welsh Poppy)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 503
Lepidoptera: Asopia pictalis, Pyralis pictalis (Poplar Pyralis) [Plant: Papaver hybridum (Round Rough-headed Poppy)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 479
Lepidoptera: Gracillaria anastomosis = Caloptilia (Gracillaria) syringella (Lilac Slender-moth) [Plant: Glaucium violaceum (Violet-horned Poppy)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 458
Coleoptera: Harpalus ruficeps = Harpalus latus (Red-headed Harpalus) [Plant: Papaver argemone (Long Rough-headed Poppy)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 276
Lepidoptera: Acontia catena = Acontia nitidula (Brixton Beauty Moth). Improbably British, despite retention in check lists. [Plant: Papaver rhoeas (Common Red Poppy)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 66
Diptera: Helcomyza ustulata (Sea-shore Helcomyza) [Plant: Glaucium flavum (Glaucium luteum, Yellow-horned Poppy)] Date: 1824-39

Duke of York - inspecting Armistice Day Poppies
Albert, Duke of York (1895-1952) (later King George VI) inspects all aspects of the production of Armistice Day Poppies (Flowers of Flanders)

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, The Red Puppy Book. Poppy the red puppy visits the rabbits in their hutch and pulls faces at them because they wont come out and play. Date: 1910

WWI - circa 1919 - Poppy Field
In Flanders Fields... The poignant scene of a field full of poppies after the First World War. Date: circa 1919

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