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  • Eryngium maritima (Sea holly)
  • Holly and Mistletoe Auction.
  • Ilex aquifolium (Holly) Hedera helix (Ivy)
  • Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Line engraving by G. Hollis.
  • Holly (Ilex aquifolium): leaves and berries. Watercolour drawings.
  • De historia stirpium commentarii insignes: holly and platen.
  • Oriel College, Oxford: panoramic views. Line engraving by G. Hollis, 1829, after himself.
  • Two sprigs of holly (Ilex species) with leaves only. Watercolour.
  • Oriel College, Oxford: quadrangle. Line engraving by G. Hollis, 1836, after J.S. Prout.
  • Thomas Brand-Hollis of the Hyde. Stipple engraving by R. Page, 1820.
  • Bodleian Library, Oxford: interior panoramic view. Line engraving by G. Hollis after J.C. Buckler.
  • Two sprigs of holly (Ilex species) with leaves only. Pen and ink drawing.
  • A branch of holly (Ilex species), five mushrooms and some pine needles. Watercolour.
  • The wheel of fortune (left); a medieval lead coffin (right). Line engraving by J. Swaine after T. Hollis.
  • Three plants, including two fruiting branches of a holly (Ilex species) and an Andromeda species. Watercolour.
  • A branch of holly (Ilex species) with blue berries and three ito mushrooms (Armillaria matsutake). Watercolour.
  • A robin on a branch of holly. Colour lithograph by Leighton Brothers after H. Weir, 1858.
  • A man holding the shape of a heart decorated with roses and holly. Coloured photographic postcard, 193-.
  • A man holding the shape of a heart decorated with roses and holly. Coloured photographic postcard, 193-.
  • A blackbird and a thrush on a branch of holly. Colour lithograph by Leighton Brothers after H. Weir, 1859.
  • Four rows of leaves of varying form, including some of holly (Ilex species) and willow (Salix species). Colour nature print by A. Auer, c. 1853.
  • Christmas celebrated by people playing instruments, eating and drinking: a man with white hair and a long white beard sitting watching a small man stirring punch in a bowl. Engraving by T. Hollis, 1851, after R.W. Buss.
  • A child holds a large bunch of holly and two others watch as a young woman stands on a chair to reach the picture she is decorating for Christmas. Colour process print.
  • Baroness Burdett-Coutts' garden party at Holly Lodge, Highgate, for members of the International Medical Congress, 1881. Oil painting by Archibald Preston Tilt and/or Alfred Preston Tilt and/or Arthur Preston Tilt, 1881-1882.
  • Baroness Burdett-Coutts' garden party at Holly Lodge, Highgate, for members of the International Medical Congress, 1881. Oil painting by Archibald Preston Tilt and/or Alfred Preston Tilt and/or Arthur Preston Tilt, 1881-1882.
  • Ruscus aculeatus L. Ruscaceae Butchers Broom., Box holly, Knee Holly, Jew’s myrtle. Distribution: Mediterranean to Britain. Aculeatus means 'prickly' which describes the plant well. Dioscorides in 70 AD (Gunther, 1959) says of this plant ‘... ye leaves and berries drunk in wine have ye force to move urine, expel the menstrua, and to break ye stones in ye bladder ...’ and adds also ‘ ... it cures also ye Icterus and ye strangurie and ye headache.' Its use did not change for a millennium and a half
  • John Wallis. Line engraving by G. B. Cipriani.
  • Sir Isaac Newton. Mezzotint by J. MacArdell, 1760, after E. Seeman, 1726.
  • John Locke. Etching by F. Bartolozzi after G. B. Cipriani, 1765.
  • John Locke. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper after G.B. Cipriani.