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Olive May (nee Olive Mary Meatyard), Countess of Drogheda (1886 - 1947)

Olive May (ne Olive Mary Meatyard), Countess of Drogheda (1886 - 1947), Actress; former wife of Lord Victor Paget, and later wife of 10th Earl of Drogheda. Out of a number of actresses who married into the peerage during the Edwardian era, she had the distinction of doing so twice. Date: 1908

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Velvet swimming crab and marbled swimming crab

Velvet swimming crab, Necora puber 1 and marbled swimming crab, Liocarcinus marmoreus 2. Portuno stregghia, Portuno marezzato. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieu's Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy, 1837. Illustration engraved by Corsi, drawn by Jean Gabriel Pretre and directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by Batelli e Figli. Turpin (1775-1840) is considered one of the greatest French botanical illustrators of the 19th century

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African bowstring hemp, Sansevieria hyacinthoides

African bowstring hemp, Sansevieria hyacinthoides. Aloe guinensis radice geniculata foliis ex atro undulatim variegatis, Commelin, Aloes de Guinee. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Jean Victor Dupin junior from Pierre Joseph Buchoz Herbier Artificial, representant plus de quinze cents plates, tant Europeennes qu'Exotiques, Gogue & Nee de La Rochelle, Paris, 1783

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