Images Dated 6th August 2018

Carnivorous plants, chromolithograph, published in 1897

Carnivorous plants: 1) Tropical pitcher plant (Nepenthes) with blossom (2); 3) Purple pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea); 4) Round-leaved sundew (Drosera rotundifolia); 5) Greater bladderwort (Utricularia vulgaris); 6) Waterwheel plant (Aldrovandia vesiculosa); 7) Common butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris); 8) Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula); 9) English sundew (Drosera anglica, or Drosera longifolia); 10) California pitcher plant (Darlingtonia californica). Chromolithograph, published in 1897

The Art of Alfred J Munnings R.A

The Art of a Great Animal and Country Life Artist: The Work of Sir Alfred James Munnings R.A. (1878-1959). On left, the Right Hon. The Earl of Birkenhead on his Roan Weight-Carrier (an old war veteran which Lord Birkenhead has now pensioned off, and he now spends his time at Charlton, Banbury).On the right is The Drummer of His Majesty's 1st Life Guards, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1922. The inset sketches on the lowr left-hand page show Munnings rebuke to certain letters received claiming that the horse's legs were placed in an impossible position. Date: 1928

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Zena Dare - English singer and actress

Miss Zena Dare (1887-1975) - English stage singer and actress, popular young actress at the time in Edwardian musical stage comedies. In the role of Princess Beauty'. See 12011051 for an alternate colour version, produced by the same publisher at the same time!! Date: 1906

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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