Bean Collection

Coffee plant, Coffea arabica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Kirchner from Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher medicinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean. English folk or fairy tale that appeared in this form in 1734, and later became Jack and the Beanstalk. Date: Late 18th Century

GARZONI, Giovanna (1600-1670). Still Life with Broad Bean. 17th c. Baroque art. Oil on canvas. ITALY. TUSCANY. Florence. Pitti Palace

Cocoa bean pods - Trinidad - West Indies Date: circa 1930s

Cocoa or cacao bean, Theobroma cacao. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887

Coffee Plant
Coffee plant, showing the berries, which contain the coffee beans

British Countryside - Cutting Chestnuts
British Countryside - A Woodman cutting Chestnuts at Midhurst, Sussex - from which barrel hoops, fencing and bean sticks are made. Date: 1938

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

Herbsts bloodleaf varieties, Iresine herbstii a) var. acuminata, b) var. aureo-reticulata. Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden

Jequirity bean or rosary pea, Abrus precatorius, Abro da corone. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Edible tubers and fruit, tubercules alimentaires. Earth almond, Cyperus esculentus, peanut or groundnut, Arachis hypogaea, mashua, Tropaeolum tuberosum, potato bean, Apios tuberosa, and tuberous pea

Coffee tree, Coffea arabica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom Jr. after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis Botanical Magazine, T. Curtis, London, 1810

Calabar bean or ordeal bean, Physostigma venenosum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Advert, Turner's Oat Crushing and Bean Splitting Mill, St Peter's Iron Works, Ipswich Date: 1856

Comic postcard, Turnip, beans and rhubarb Date: 20th century

Sacred bean or Indian lotus, Nelumbo nucifera (Nelumbium speciosum). Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse

Bourbon palm, Livistona chinensis
Bourbon palm or Chinese fan palm, Livistona chinensis. Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896

Papaya, papaw or pawpaw tree and fruit, Carica papaya, Carica papaja. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Manchineel or beach apple tree, Hippomane mancinella. Mancinella venenata, Mancinella velenosa. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze

Twelfth Day celebration, The King of the Bean
Twelfth Day celebration (6 January), The King of the Bean

Soya beans - a hint for hungry Europe 1921
Page from The Illustrated London News reporting on the possibilities of the soya bean as the solution to the cost of living in Europe

Changeable-coloured lupine, Lupinus mutabilis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Bailey after a botanical illustration by Edward Dalton Smith from Robert Sweets The British Flower Garden

King of the Bean, 14th century
The medieval game of King of the Bean, a mock royal procession led by a zany, 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England

Medieval games: boy diving for apples on a bench while another boy threatens to upend the bench and dunk the boy in the tub (top)

Cacao, cocoa or chocolate tree, Theobroma cacao
Sprig of the cacao, cocoa or chocolate tree, Theobroma cacao, with bean, fruit and seed. Copperplate engraving after an original illustration by Captain John Gabriel Stedman from his Narrative of a

Sprig of the coffee tree, Coffea arabica, with drupes D, coffee beans F and leaves B, C. Copperplate engraving after an original illustration by Captain John Gabriel Stedman from his Narrative of a

Branch, leaf, fruit and flower of the coffee tree, Coffea arabica. Copperplate engraving from Abbe Antoine Francois Prevosts Histoire generale des voyages, Paris, 1746

Coffee, Coffea arabica, plant showng flowers, berries and bean. Handcoloured lithograph from the National Encyclopaedia, W. Mackenzie, London, 1880

Taro, Colocasia esculenta, and dragon tree, Astragalus tragacantha. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Spring pea, Lathyrus vernus, and lentil, Lens culinaris. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, and small bean variety, Dolichos species. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Chickpea or garbanzo varieties, Cicer arietinum
Chickpea or garbanzo bean varieties, Cicer arietinum. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Variety of runner bean, Phaseolus vulgaris
Variety of runner bean, Haricot flageolet beurre sanguin a rames, Phaseolus vulgaris. Chromolithograph by P. de Pannemaeker from Jean Lindens l Illustration Horticole, Brussels, 1884

Castor bean or castor oil plant, Ricinus communis, Ricin. Handcoloured steel engraving by Debray after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr

Arabian coffee tree, Coffea arabica, Cafeyer. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lagesse after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr

Green bean or haricot, Phaseolus vulgaris lucasianus
Green bean or haricot, Phaseolus vulgaris L. var. lucasianus (Phaseolus compressus lucasianus). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens

Scarlet flame bean, Brownea coccinea subsp. capitella (Brownea racemosa). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes

Carob tree or locust bean, Ceratonia siliqua. Handcoloured stipple engraving by Mixelle l aine after an illustration by Pierre-Joseph Redoute from Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceaus Traite des Arbres et

Indian lotus, Nelumbo nucifera, and frog
Le Nenuphar rouge de la Chine. Indian lotus, Nelumbo nucifera, and frog. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus

Running buck bean, Menyanthes sarmentosa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis The Botanical Magazine, London, 1810

Tamarind and pistachio nut
Tamarind, Tamarindus indica, and pistachio nut, Pistacia vera. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792

Vanilla orchid and colocynth
Vanilla orchid, Epidendrum vanilla 1, and colocynth or bitter apple, Citrullus colocynthis 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Olive tree and cacao tree
Olive, Olea europaea 1, and cacao or cocoa tree, Theobroma cacao 2, with cacao fruit and beans. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Coffee and sugar cane plants
Coffee tree with ripe fruit, Coffea arabica 1, and sugar cane, Saccharum officinarum 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Velvet bean, Mucuna pruriens
Velvet bean or cowhage, Mucuna pruriens. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Lentil, Lens culinaris (Lens esculenta). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Chocolate or cocoa tree, Theobroma cacao. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

St. Ignatius bean, Strychnos ignatii. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

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