Carrot Collection

Varieties of carrot (daucus). Chromolithograph by G. Severeyns, of Brussels, from Ernst Benary, Album Benary. Date: 1876-86

Vegetable roots
Plate 4 from Le Regne Vegetal, Vol 12, Hort. Atlas (1870). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. Entitled Racines alimentaires

Daucus carota, carrot
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Dutch Rabbits 1905
Three black and white Dutch domestic rabbits

Human vegetable figure. circa 1825

Gremlin and Pilot
A Gremlin tries to fog the aircrafts windscreen with his breath, but the pilot foils him by chewing a carrot to improve his sight

Very Well Meant by H. M. Bateman
A well-meaning tourist offers a carrot to the horse of a Guard standing in its traditional sentry post in Whitehall, London, much to the horses astonishment. Not the done thing

Comic postcard, Vegetable love, The Allotment Love Letter Date: 20th century

Advert for Bovril with vegetables, WW2
Advert for Bovril - puts a smile into vegetables, WW2 Date: 1943

The Dutch Housewife, by Nicolaes Maes, in the National Gallery, London. Date: 1655

Wild carrot, Daucus carota. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1803

Villous deadly carrot, Thapsia villosa, and giant fennel, Ferula communis. A herb with leaves like fennel called Thapsia. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam

Root vegetables, racines alimentaires. Beetroot, Beta vulgaris, wild carrot, Daucus carota, and rampion, Campanula rapunculus

Carrot fern, sekkoku, or necklace-like dendrobium orchid, Dendrobium moniliforme. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S

Moon carrot, Seseli gummiferum
Moon carrot or gummy meadow-saxifrage, Seseli gummiferum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a drawing by John Curtis for Samuel Curtis continuation of William Curtis Botanical

Carrot, Daucus carota. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Golden Soil: French methods of Market Gardening for England, showing scenes from the Market Garden at Thatcham, Berkshire. Date: 1908

Cot header design, Horse with Carrots and Duck

Victorian Scrap, Circus Clown and Donkey. 19th century

Curtis British Entomology Plate 491
Lepidoptera: Cochylis rupicola = Cochylidia rupicola (Chalk-cliff Tortrix, Conch) [Plant: Daucus carota (Wild Carrot)] Date: 1824-39

The General Election - Free Fooders
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - Free Fooders. Candidates at a hustings face the warth of the electorate and also face a barrage of eggs and vegeatbles

ASSORTED RABBITS 1905
Assorted domestic rabbits. Date: early 20th century

Benjamin the Bunny by Muriel Dawson -- a little boy feeds his pet rabbit. Date: 1941

Girl and boy with snowman on a Christmas postcard
Girl and boy with a snowman on a Christmas postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Friar Juan Sanchez Cotan (1560-1627). Spanish painter. Still
Baroque art. Seventeenth century. Friar Juan Sanchez Cotan (1560-1627). Spanish painter. Still Life with thistle and carrots. Fine Arts Museum. Granada. Andalusia. Spain

Daucus carota, carrot
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Snowman on a French New Year postcard. Date: circa 1900s

Children snowballing on a Christmas postcard
Six children snowballing on a Christmas postcard, watched by a snowman. Date: circa 1890s

Five dancing pigs on a Christmas card. circa 1890s

Misfitz - Bunnie. early 20th century

Cartoon, Croesus, WW1
Cartoon, Croesus (Cresus). A comment on the food shortage in France during the First World War - a man hides his egg in a safe

Little girl and boy with rabbits on a Christmas card
Little girl and boy with three rabbits on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Rabbits with carrots on a Christmas card
Three adult rabbits and three baby rabbits with carrots on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, The gourmands, WW1
Cartoon, The gourmands. Soldiers with a bowl of apples, a rabbit and a carrot promise a cook that when they return from patrol they will bring him some prisoners. Date: 1916

A pony with a monkey on its back -- which kind of pet would you prefer? Date: circa 1933

Large root cluster, leaves and stems of the Japanese wild carrot, Nothosmyrnium japonicum.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu

Leaves and tiny white flowers from a type of Japanese wild carrot. Nothosmyrnium japonicum.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu

Root vegetables, carrot Daucus carota and turnip Brassica rapa.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtiss Lectures on Botany

Cartoon, Kaiser Kabot, WW1
Cartoon, Kaiser Kabot (Kaiser Wilhelm II, the ham actor), showing the German Kaiser in four different theatrical roles: ignoring treaties, being deceitful, involved in litigation, and as Tartuffe

Voles and vegetables
Three voles engaging in digging up carrots

The Tenor hits a high note and a special bouquet awaits
The Tenors Top Note. An Operatic Tenor hits a high note and is about to meet a special bouquet, comprising of rotten eggs, a carrot and a turnip !! Date: circa 1910s

Raphanus spp. radish and Daucus carota, carrot
Watercolour of a radish with intertwined growth & carrot also intertwined by Sarah Stone (c. 1760-1844) from the collection of Sir Ashton Lever

Rabbit family jigsaw

Mexican carrot worker. Edinburg, Texas. Date 1939 Feb

In a carrot pickers camp, Imperial Valley, California. Woman from Broken Bow, Oklahoma. Are you going to take my picture, wait till I get my hair combed. Date 1939 Feb

Daucus Carota Sativus (Carrot) with leaves attached
Daucus Carota Sativus (Carrot), a root vegetable of the Apiaceae family, with the green leaves still attached

Boys Tease Redhead 1924
Two boys tease a redheaded girl, calling her carrot-head: she retorts that her hair is auburn

Carrot Production
Gathering, washing, bunching and carting carrots for the London market

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