Violette Collection

The Selfridge family at Highcliffe Castle, 1921. From left to right: Gordon Selfridge Junior, Isadora Duncan, Vicomte de Sibour (sitting)

Gateau Violette

Miss Violet Selfridge & Vicomte Jacques de Sibour
Miss Violet (Violette) Selfridge, daughter of retail magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge, pictured at the time of her engagement to Vicomte Jacques de Sibour of whom there is an inset photograph

Sweet violet, Violette, Viola odorata. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Pancrace Bessa from Charles Malos Guirlande de Flore, Garland of Flowers, Chez Janet, Paris, 1816

Hyacinth, jacinthe, Hyacinthus orientalis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Pancrace Bessa from Charles Malos Guirlande de Flore, Garland of Flowers, Chez Janet, Paris

Violet-crowned hummingbird, Amazilia violiceps, female. (Oiseau-mouche a couronne violette, Ornismya sephanioides). Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre

The beauty Euriant, mistress of the Count of Nevers
Euriant of Savoy, mistress of the Count of Nevers. The story of the beauty Euriant and Gerard de Nevers was related in La Roman de la violette by the poet Gerbert de Montreuil

Sweet violet or garden violet, Viola odorata, Violette odorante. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lebrun after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr

Gloxinia variety, violette neigeuse, Sinningia speciosa. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Blackthorn, Prunus spinosa, with sphinx moth
L Epine violette. Blackthorn, Prunus spinosa, with sphinx moth. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses

China star, Callistephus chinensis
La Reine marguerite violette et rouge. China star, Callistephus chinensis. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus

Violette Cordery, 1926
British racing driver and long distance record breaker Violette Cordery (1900-1983), whose successful driving earned her the title of Queen of Motorists, pictured behind the wheel in 1926. 1926

Violet Cordery, Queen of Motorists
Violet Cordery, whose successful driving earned her the title of Queen of Motorists, showing her sister Evelyn how to tune up a car

Grandville Violet 1847
VIOLETTE (erythronium) Date: 1847

The Paris fashions for April, 1860
A sketch from the monthly ladies fashion pages. The evening dress (back) is made of silk, the colour of violette de Parme, trimmed with fluted silk plaiting of a slightly darker tone

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