Prolific Gallery

A Madame Yevonde portrait of Baba Beaton

Miss Baba Beaton is the younger of the two beautiful and attractive Beaton girls. They are among the most popular of the blonde ex-debs, and no party is complete without them. Both Miss Nancy and Miss Baba Beaton have often been photographed by their clever brother, but this double portrait is not one of Mr Cecil Beaton's camera studies. Madame Yevonde was a prolific and ground-breaking society portrait and commercial photographer active between 1915 and 1975. She is particularly well-known for her astonishingly modern work using the Vivex colour process during the 1930's. Her images of society folk and other personalities appeared regularly in The Sketch or The Tatler through the 1920's and 30's

© Yevonde Portrait Archive/ILN/Mary Evans Picture Library

Caricature of Henry James Byron, dramatist

Caricature of the English dramatist, editor, journalist, director, theatre manager, novelist and actor, Henry James Byron (1835-1884) -- another of his plays is about to be put on at the Adelphi Theatre, London. Two theatre managers, depicted as little boys, ask him to top up their glasses with Hokee Pokee.
1881

© Terry Parker / Mary Evans Picture Library

Cherry varieties: Bedford Prolific and Bigarreau

Cherry varieties: Bedford Prolific and Bigarreau Gros Coeuret, Prunus species.. Drawn by J.L. Macfarlane, chromolithographed by Severeyns, Brussels, from The Florist and Pomologist Robert Hogg, London, published from 1878 to 1884. 251 hand-coloured and chromolithographic plates of fruit and flowers. Drawn by Walter Hood Fitch, Miss E. Regel, and J.L. Macfarlane, lithographed by G. Severeyns and Stroobant, Belgium

© Florilegius / Mary Evans