Bees Collection

Whither Away by Florence Mary Anderson
A group of delicate looking fairies and pixies ride around on dragonflies and bees. c.1925

Shakespeares Bees by Pauline Baynes
William Shakespeare, lost in thought, and inspired by a swarm of honey bees as he writes Henry V

Bees in springtime
Bees enjoy collecting pollen from abundant catkins on pussy willow branches growing by a river

Beehive / Bee / Honey 1926
A beehive, and one bee

Elephant Castle Beehive
A unique elephant castle beehive at Beeston, Cheshire, England. Date: 1960s

Poster card for a Beekeepers Conference - Prague
Promotional card for a Beekeepers Conference - Prague, Czechoslovakia

The Apiarist - a bee keeper demonstrating the examination of frames of brood

Beekeeping / Diderot
Various procedures of apiculture

Roman Beekeeping / Virgil
A Roman beekeeper tends his bees

Roman Beekeepers / Virgil
Roman beekeepers watch their bees swarming

Alphabet / B for Bees
B - is for the Bees, that fly out here and there

Convolvulus & C. Bell
Pink CONVOLVULUS (Bindweed) & blue & white CAMPANULA MEDIUM Canterbury Bell) depicted with bees

Smoking the Bees / Stokes
Smoking the bees

Insects / Bee
Humble bees; the wood bee (top) and earth bee (bottom)

One Kind of Picnic - Another by H. M. Bateman 2 of 2
A group attempt a countryside picnic but are beset with problems ranging from angry wasps to an irate landowner. The picture is in direct contrast to a companion picture to this

Brer Rabbit

Bee Hives Near Welwyn
A cyclist stops to admire the many rows of bee hives situated here along the Great North Road near Welwyn in Hertfordshire, England

Advertisement for poultry farm, Mickleover, Derby
Advertisement for CR Salt, Chestnuts Poultry Farm, Mickleover, Derby, offering eggs for hatching, day old chicks, three month old pullets, stock birds, ducklings, ducks, poultry houses

Looking for Queen Bee
Bee keeping - a method of holding a Brood Frame, when looking for the Queen Bee

Bee Pollinating
A bee pollinates a flower

Bee Keeper Victorian period

WW2 Birthday Card, Queue Of Bees
An illustrated WW2 birthday greetings card, Even if a queue were a mile long, I'd join it to wish you a happy birthday

Buckfast Abbey and Apiary, Dartmoor, Devon
Buckfast Abbey, viewed from the Apiary, Dartmoor, Devon - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Dandelion-Puff Balloon Club by Thomas Maybank Date: 1920

Black bear attacked by bees as it attempts to take honey from a dead tree stump.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Ebenezer Sibly's Universal System of Natural History, 1794

TELLING THE BEES - bees must be told when there is a death in the household, if you don't, the bees will either leave or die in the hive Date: 1879

Putting bee-hives into mourning 1856
Telling the bees, traditional European custom in which bees would be told of an important event in the beekeepers life, such as long journeys, births, marriages and deaths

Dragon attacked by swarm of bees
A dragon is foiled when a swarm of bees distracts its attention, enabling the child to be snatched from the jaws of death! Date: 1887

Comic postcard, Boy and girl, birds and bees Date: 20th century

How Doth the Little Busy Bee by John Hassall
A Study of Young Life by John Hassall. The picture, signed Dallinghoo, 1904, pictures his three eldest children, Dorothy, Ian and Isabel, watching beehives at the rectory of Dallinghoo, Suffolk

Iris, Iris gemanica, and sensitive plant, Mimosa pudica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Pancrace Bessa from Charles Malos Guirlande de Flore, Garland of Flowers

Calligraphic title and vignette of beehive with bees
Title page with calligraphic title and vignette of beehive with bees. Handcoloured stipple engraving by Pancrace Bessa from Charles Malos Les Insectes, The Insects, Louis Janet, Paris, 1820

A bee Date: 1920

Bees, mainly for the beginner, 1941
Bees, mainly for the beginner, by Apis, 1941. Beekeeping advice. Date: 1941

Silhouette, Girl and Beehive. 1926

And golden honey from the hive, by Minnie Asprey. circa 1918

Common Humble Bees (Bombus terrestris) -- male, large female, and worker. Date: 1843

Common marmoset, Callithrix jacchus, and brown
Common marmoset, Callithrix jacchus 1, and brown bear, Ursus arctos, with bees 2. Ouistiti, Ours brun. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by Adolph Fries from Felix-Edouard

Metamorphosis of honey bees, honeycomb, queens, drones and chain of worker bees. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children)

Lessons in elementary science at Whitechapel
Miss Kate M. Hall, the curator of the Whitechapel Free Library and Museum, giving a demonstration of working bees to Board School children with the aid of a observatory hive, invented and made by Mr

Design for a Bee House. 1857

ROMAN BEEKEEPERS / VIRGIL
Roman beekeepers watch their bees swarming. Date: First published: 29 BC

ROMAN BEEKEEPING
A Roman beekeeper tends his bees Date: 29 BC

BIRTH OF APICULTURE
The birth of Apiculture: when heifers are sacrificed, bees swarm from them; a gift from the gods to the pious. Date: First published: 29 BC

Repeating Pattern - Beehives. *PLEASE NOTE that the magifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern and will not feature on the final file.*

Greetings card in the shape of a strawberry, with a hovering bee. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Advert for Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Edwardian jewellery
Selection of novelty jewellery inspired my nature. Date: 1901

BUMBLEBEE - In flight (Bombus latr. sp.)

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