The silph posters & prints

Lucette Aldous and Flemming Flindt in Adolphe Nourrit's La Sylphide at the Ballet Rambert Houston Rogers

Studies of the silk worm and other insects T Cole

'Silex quartzum' James Sowerby

Feeding silkworms their breakfast of mulberry leaves, Lebanon mountains, Syria Underwood & Underwood

The Sibyl of Delphi Anonymous

Wrest Park from the south-west, Silsoe, Bedfordshire HN King

Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell in Mediation from Thais at the Adelphi Theatre Anthony Crickmay

A silkworm plantation in the Lebanon mountains, Syria Underwood & Underwood

Margot Fonteyn in Chopin's Les Sylphides at the Sadler's Wells Theatre Gordon Anthony

'Silex quartzum' James Sowerby

North-east view of the Church of St Botolph Aldersgate, City of London Anonymous

View of the Church of St Botolph without Bishopsgate, City of London Joseph Skelton

North-east view of the Church of St Botolph Aldersgate, City of London Joseph Skelton

The spire of St Martin, Ludgate silhouetted against the bulk of St Paul's, London Frith

Gilpin going farther than he intended Smith

The dwarves quarrelling over the body of Fafner Arthur Rackham

View of the Church of St Botolph without Bishopsgate, City of London Anonymous

Illustration from Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods Arthur Rackham

The Silversmiths' Room, Central School of Arts and Crafts, Camden, London, 1911 Unknown

The tower of the Church of St Botolph, Aldersgate, City of London John Crowther

The Brook William EC Morgan

Feeding silk worms their breakfast of mulberry leaves, Lebanon mountains, Syria Underwood & Underwood

Illustration from Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods Arthur Rackham

The Continence of Scipio Willem van the Elder Herp

The Hampton Hydra Joseph Swain

Rudolf Nureyev and Yvette ChauvirÚ in Chopin's Les Sylphides at the Royal Opera House Houston Rogers

Tiburtine Sibyl and the Emperor Augustus, c. 1527-1530/31 Parmigianino

Interior view of the Church of St Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield, City of London Thomas Hosmer Shepherd

The Silver Trumpets Hanhart

Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926) in 'The Sheikh' Anonymous

Naples, from the Heights of Posillipo with Vesuvius in the Distance, 1740 The Metropolitan Master

View of the Adelphi Theatre, Strand, Westminster, London Anonymous

The Metamorphosis of Daphne Master of the Judgement of Paris

Sidrophel Examining the Kite Through His Telescop William Hogarth

Mime at the anvil Arthur Rackham

The Nymph Salmacis Francois-Joseph Bosio