Viola Collection (page 2)

Curtis British Entomology Plate 411
Hymenoptera: Mymar pulchellum Curtis (Feather-winged Mymar) [Plant: Viola palustris (Marsh Violet)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 386
Lepidoptera: Melitaea selene = Boloria (Argynnis) selene (Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary) [Plant: Viola hirta (Hairy Violet)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 168
Coleoptera: Rugilus fragilis (Red-necked Rugilus) [Plant: Viola canina (Dog?s Violet)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 166
Hymenoptera: Colax dispar (Northern Colax) = Pteromalus dispar (Curtis) [Plant: Viola lutea, var. (Yellow Mountain Pansy)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 42
Diptera: Pachygaster leachii (Leachian Pachygaster) [Plant: Viola odorata (White Sweet Violet)] Date: 1824-39

Pansy Border - Jugend 1901
A decorative, Art Nouveau floral border using stylized pansies. Date: 1901

12TH NIGHT / VIOLA 19C
Act III, Scene I Viola, disguised as Cesario, unwittingly woos Olivia in her garden Date: 19th century

12TH NIGHT / VIOLA C18TH
Act I, Scene V Viola, disguised as a boy, enters the house of Olivia Date: 1793

Musical instrument maker Johann Reiter of Mittenwald, Germany, surrounded by his wonderful creations, from lutes and cellos to violas and violins

Viola da Gamba (Leg Viol) - a Bass Viol, played held betwen the knees of the player (hence the name!). Shakespeare mentions the Viola da Gamba as viol-de-gamboys

Viola tricolor, pansy
Painting by Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759-1840), from his publication Choix des plus belles fleurs (The Most Beautiful Flowers), c. 1827-33. Illustration entitled Bouquet de Pensees

Flowers of March & April: VIOLA (Violet); PRIMULA (Primrose); PRIMULA VERIS (Cowslip); GALIUM ODORATUM (Sweet Woodruff); (Bluebell) HYACINTHOIDES NON-SCRIPTA

Viola, in Shakespeares comedy Twelfth Night
Viola (disguised as the page Cesario), in Shakespeares comedy Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 4. 19th century

Spring Flowers C. 1870
A bunch of white NARCISSUS & pansies (VIOLA WITTROCKIANA) Date: circa 1870

Viola Dana (1897 1987), American actress of silent films

Karl Friedrich Abel (1725-1787) German musician in England, portrayed with a viola di gamba

Engagement of Viola Tree to Alan Parsons
Viola Tree (1884 - 1938), English actress, singer, playwright and author. Daughter of the actor Herbert Beerbohm Tree, she made many of her early appearances with his company at His Majestys Theatre

Twelfth Night, Act II Scene ii, by William Heath Robinson
Scene from the Shakespeare comedy, Twelfth Night, Act II Scene ii, illustration by William Heath Robinson. Showing Viola disguised as the page Cesario

Illustration, Hadenidae -- Xylinidae -- Valeria Oleagina, Chariptera Culta, Hadena Didyma, Hadena Strigilis, Dipterygia Pinastri, Euplexia Lucipara, Habryntis Scita, Habryntis Meticulosa

Foxgloves and pansies, Digitalis purpurea and Viola tricolor.. Handcolored stipple engraving from Le Jardinier Fleuriste, Dedie aus Dames par un Amateur Chez Marcilly, Paris, 1818

Violet, Viola odorata.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtiss Lectures on Botany, as delivered in the Botanic Garden at Lambeth, 1805

Hoodleaved violet, Viola cucullata.. Illustration by Clarissa Badger, nee Munger, from Wild Flowers, Drawn and Colored from Nature, New York, 1859

Boy scouts of Ponsonby Troop, New Zealand, in hut
Group photo, boy scouts of Ponsonby Troop, Auckland City, New Zealand, seen here in their hut. Date: early 20th century

Wonder violet - flowering (Viola mirabilis). typical plant on taiga-forest floor near river Bolshoi Ugan, near Ugut settlement; Uganskii Nat. reserve, Siberia, Russia; spring

The Pan Ball, 1920
From left, Miss Iris Tree as a futurist Pan, Miss Viola Tree as a tree nymph and Miss Betty Chester as a Bacchante, all guests at the themed Pan Ball held at Covent Garden in aid of Barts Hospital in

Hans Sloane Vol. 211 page 29
Viola violacea Makino, Oxalis corniculata and Trachelospermum asiaticum Nakai. Specimens taken from Hans Sloane Vol.211 page 29

Viola tricolor, wild pansy
Wild pansy in the Wildlife Garden at the Natural History Museum, London. Photographed by Derek Adams, July 2004

Viola sp
Plate 62 from Flowers by John Edwards, 1795. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Anne Henriette de France (1727 - 1752). Twin

La Ba?onnette. Tous les jeudis. Bas les masques?... Vi
La Baionnette. Tous les jeudis. Bas les masques?... Viola!. A skeleton wearing a German military uniform and holding a mask of Kaiser Wilhelms head

Viola Allen as Viola in Shakespeares comedy, Twelfth night. Date c1903

Metropolitan Police K Division orchestral band

German prisoners of war with musical instruments, WW1
German prisoners of war in a detention camp, some of them with musical instruments, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

12th Night / Sir Toby Duel
The duel between Sir Toby and Viola

Viola Da Gamba C16
Viola da Gamba made by Gaspar Duiffoprugear (1514-1570), a renowned Tyrolese instrument maker. Date: circa 1550

Viola Da Gamba 1547
A 16th century viola da gamba Date: circa 1547

Grandville Pansy 1847
PENSEE pansy (viola) Date: 1847

12th Night / Viola / Rackham
Viola - disguised as a youth - is threatened with a duel... Date: first performed 1601/2

Plants / Viola
VIOLET with PRIMULA (primrose)

Plants / Alpine Plants
A selection of Alpine plants, including Violets and Edelweiss

Boy Studying Clock 1879
A boy spends his spare time fruitfully by studying the workings of a clock

Plants / Viola Tricolor
PANSY PERSONIFIED

12th Night / Viola Duel
Viola, disguised as a youth, finds herself called upon to fight a duel with sir Andrew Aguecheek - very much against her will

12th Night / Viola / Duke
Viola - disguised as a youth - converses with the Duke

Flowers May & June 1863
Flowers of May & June: VIOLA TRICOLOR (Heartsease, Wild Pansy); CRATAEGUS (Hawthorn, May blossom); ULEX UEROPAEUS (Gorse or Furze)

Pansy Postcard
VIOLA TRICOLOR popular known as PANSIES (in French, PENSEES)

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