Sensitive Collection

Princess and the Pea
I have scarcely closed my eyes all night, complains the princess, proving that she is a REAL princess, so sensitive that single a pea beneath her mattress keeps her awake

Venus flytrap, Dionaea muscipula. Illustration from John Ellis, Directions for bringing over seeds and plants from the East Indies to which is added

Sculpture Erste Liebe ( First Love ) by Felix Pfeiffer
Sculpture Erste Liebe ( First Love ) (1912) by Georg Felix Pfeifer (1871-1945) Date: 1912

Ira L. & A. C. Berk Packard Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Ira L. & A. C. Berk Ltd, promoting the Packard Straight Eight car, seen in the illustration, boasting high power, four wheel brakes

Photographs of young actress in a film and theatre production, Manuela'. Captioned, Children in Uniform: Two Manuelas'

Iris, Iris gemanica, and sensitive plant, Mimosa pudica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Pancrace Bessa from Charles Malos Guirlande de Flore, Garland of Flowers

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

Sensitive plant, Mimosa pudica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816

Telegraph plant, Codariocalyx motorius (Sensitive hedysarum, Hedysarum gyrans). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes

Double-yellow water sensitive plant, Neptunia plena. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Edwards Botanical Register

Stapelia and sensitive plant
Hairy stapelia, Stapelia hirsuta 1, and sensitive plant, Mimosa pudica 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Henriette Dorothea Westermayr from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

ORPHEUS AND ANIMALS
He charms the animals with his melodious singing and sensitive lyre-playing

John Bull Shot in Rear
The bombardment of Hartlepool - John Bull gets hit in a sensitive area... Date: December 1914

Pretty Young lady holding an elaborate bouquet Date: circa 1910s

Cleve Backster experimenting on plant sensitivity
Grover Cleveland " Cleve" Backster (b.1924), American scientist, best known for his experiments with biocommunication in plant and animal cells

Large Flowering Sensitive Plant, engraved by Stadler after Philip Reinagle, in a book entitled The Temple of Flora by Dr Robert John Thornton (1768-1837)

Port Elizabeth, South Africa - The Horse Memorial - erected to honour the Gallant Animals which perished during the Second Boer War 1899-1902

Dental advert, Pure Vegetable Cement
Dental advert, James Penneys Pure Vegetable Cement, for stopping tender teeth. 1874

Cartoon, A sensitive man, WW1
Cartoon, A sensitive man. A group of French soldiers are sharing a bucket of Pinard (cheap wine or plonk). Do you know that our ancestors the Gauls drank mead from the skulls of their enemies

Cartoon, Theres a German in the next bed, WW1
Cartoon, Theres a German in the next bed. A French soldier needs to ask the nurse for the chamber pot, but doesn t want the German to hear him in case its sensitive information

Queen Victoria - Portrait in profile from 1837
Queen Victoria (1819 - 1901) - sensitive portrait in profile from 1837, the newly crowned monarch wearing a garland of roses in her hair. 1837

Young Russian Girl holding up a bunch of flowers
I m going to give you a bunch of flowers and then make a swift departure! (very loose translation!) Young Russian Girl holding up a bunch of flowers. Date: 1908

Containers for transporting & storing plants & seeds. Illustration from John Ellis, Directions for bringing over seeds and plants from the East Indies to which is added

Sensitive pianist weeps, 1877
Herr Pumpernickel, a sensitive German pianist, weeps after performing a composition of his own on the piano. His host and friends look on with concern. Date: 1877

The Sensitive Plant / Robinson
Illustration by Charles Robinson showing a sumptuous garden overflowing with gorgeous flowering blooms and plants amidst which a romantically clad lady stands

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