Watering Collection

Mothers Gardener by Muriel Dawson
Charming illustration of a small girl in a white dress and pink sun hat carefully watering a lovely border of flowers in a garden. c.1925

Another Wash-out by W. Heath Robinson
Training at home for the cross Channel swim with a man swimming suspended from a window with watering cans. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger

Victorian gardener with watering can, Chelmsford
Studio portrait of a Victorian gardener with watering can, Chelmsford. circa 1860s

Girl Guides Gardening by Millicent Sowerby
Two girl guides pictured in a garden in the spring raking the grass and planting seeds

Malvern Water Cure (2)
(2 of 12) Water Cure at Malvern The Packing " Now this is what I call being jolly!"

Sunday Roast
A mouth-watering Sunday roast meal - a joint of roast beef, served with roast potatoes and Yorkshire pudding

Ballet dancers exercising at the French Academie de Musique et de Danse. (1 of 2)

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary - Nursery Rhyme
Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells, And pretty maids all in a row

Little girl watering flowers by Muriel Dawson
A little girl watering flowers in a garden, by Muriel Dawson. circa 1930s

Victoria Waters Flowers
Victoria as a child, tending the garden at Kensington Palace

Four kittens with watering can on a New Year card
Four kittens in the snow with a watering can on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

A hint to the Hebrews - how they may make themselves independent of the watering place hotels. Cartoon shows Jewish hotel and people on floating raft

Five siblings playing in their suburban garden. Date: circa 1910

Car cross section / W H Robinson
Cross section through Mr K. R. G. Brownes (author) new sports car, showing drive and water cooling system (watering can). Please note

Political poster, Free Trade versus Fair Trade -- a commentary on Joseph Chamberlain (seen here as the New Gardener) and the Tariff Reform League. circa 1906

A carter drives his horse into the water for a drink, Konya
A carter drives his horse into the water for a drink on the shores of Lake Aksehir, Konya, Turkey Date: 1992

Australian troops watering their horses during WW1

Puerta de Alcala and the Fountain of Cybele, 1785
Gines Andres de Aguirre (1727-1800). Spanish painter. Puerta de Alcala and the Fountain of Cybele, 1785. (Madrid, Spain). History Museum. Madrid. Spain. (On loan, Prado Museum, Madrid)

Victorian scrap, cart watering the road Date: late 19th century

Watering The Flowers
An oil painting of a white haired woman, in the garden, watering some blue flowers, which surround a yellow flowering tree. Date: circa 1915

Advert, J Tylor and Son's registered garden syringe, small and large sizes Date: 1856

Scottish women washing clothes in the open air Date: circa 1850

Ww1 Wwi World War One First Great 1st Wartime
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WATERING THE WINE
The wine-merchant in his cellar at dead of night... 1905

Rabbits with a watering can by Rosamund Martin

Comic postcard, Dogs at the seaside Date: 20th century

Original Artwork - Nursery Rhyme Series Labels
Original Artwork - Designs for six Nursery Rhyme Series Labels Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Boy giving flower to little girl
Original Artwork - Cut-out silhouette of a boy gardener giving a flower to a little girl Date: circa 1937

Place marker - Mary Contrary in Gardening Kit, wants to show _____________ where to sit. Date: circa 1937

Postcard design - When can I see you?. A gardener keeping an eye (through a magnifying glass!) of a little plant slowly growing larger. Date: circa 1937

The Bayswater Conduit
From 1439 until 1812 the Bayswater Conduit carried water from Baynards Watering to supply the City of London and the area around was one of Londons beauty spots. Date: 1875

Watering the Streets, Little Boy at the Crossing and the Flowerpot Man. Man spreading water on the streets in front of a butchers shop 76

The Funeral, the Charity Children and Highgate Tunnel. Two children mourning their mother in a funeral procession 73, parish beadles leading a parade of children from a charity school 74

Plant watering
Fashionable lady watering plants Date: circa 1940

Schoolgirls in greenhouse learning horticulture. circa 1965

Cultivation of the tea plant, China. (1 of 4) Date: 1832

Silhouette, Offering a Peach in the Hothouse. late 19th century

Hippo
Would I like a bun? Illustrated comic postcard of a hippo with mouth watering. Nister series 172/2. Artist: GH Thompson (1842-1909)

Victorian silk birthday card, Girl and Doves. 19th century

Cutout birthday card, age 8, with two goblins, a watering can and toadstool houses. Date: circa 1920s

Rice Plant - watering the rice plant
During the early stages of growth, the Chinese had to constantly keep the seed under water, using chain-pumps and a bucket placed at the end of a lever. Date: 1833

Dickens scrap - Mr Tupman, Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens scrap - Mr Tupman paying court to a spinster aunt in the novel, The Pickwick Papers, Chapter 8. 19th century

Cartoon - Going down to a watering place, for the benefit of Bathing. early 19th century

Knightsbridge Pub 1841
The White Hart, Knightsbridge. 1841

The Spaniards Inn, Hampstead Heath, London, historic watering hole of the famous, including Dick Turpin & Charles Dickens, who immortalised this pub in his Pickwick Papers. Date: late 16th century

An Arab camp - a camel is given water whilst men rest in tents, smoking and drinking. Date: early 19th century

Green Watering Can Date: 1880

Sea bathing at an American watering place 1901
Men and women having an enjoyable time at a swimming pool in New Jersey, America. Date: 1901

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