Bees Collection (page 3)

Language of flowers 1918
Women flowers flirting with bees and butterflies. Date: 1918

Chocolate box design, birds and bees
Chocolate box design, featuring birds, bees and pink flowers. Date: 20th century

James Lapslie
JAMES LAPSLIE Scottish churchman and informer, reading a book about bees which swarm round his head, standing on the book of Revelation. Date: CIRCA 1793

Robert Huish
ROBERT HUISH Writer, about bees among other things. Date: 1777 - 1850

Christmas card in the shape of a honey pot decorated with a beehive and pink flowers. Date: circa 1890s

Dog with tambourine on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Beehives, queen bees, and worker bees. Illustration from Gilles August Bazin, The natural history of bees. Date: 1744

Edward Baruch Blaker, beekeeper, 1911 (1) Date: 1911

Beekeeping
Hans Hermigk, About Beekeeping, Denmark. 1649. Date: 1649

HONEYCOMB
A close-up photograph of honeycomb. Date: 1979

Beehive and Bees
Bees buzzing round a hive. Date: 1817

Cottagers Hives
A cottager tends his hives, while his children keep a safe distance... Date: 1881

Brazilian Bee
The Brazilian bee. Date: 1901

Diderot Hives
Various hives and other apicultural appliances Date: circa 1760

Shadow drawing. C. H. Bennett, Industry
Industry. A hard working man sits busily stitching fabrics and casts a shadow of a bee hive. Illustration from a series of shadow portraits of fictional characters by Charles H Bennett entitled

Anon. Warne alphabet 1875. WXYZ
Page from a 19th century alphabet book with W and X, inexplicably, for bees, honey and hives (?), Y for yacht (thats better, back on familiar territory) and Z for the good old zebra

St Bees College, Cumbria
General view of St Bees College, Cumbria, a theological college which opened in 1817, admitting 20 students who paid five pounds per term

Bees swarming in a walled garden
Bees leave their hive and form a large swarm on the branch of a tree. Two agricultural types look on in amazement

Lear / Nonsense / Dover
There was an Old Person of Dover, who rushed through a field of blue Clover; But some very large bees, stung his nose and his knees, so he very soon went back to Dover

An Air Attack
A delicate lady, accompanied by her boy servant, fends off a small swarm of bees with an equally small parasol

Bees by Charles Robinson, 1912
A group of bees clamber to the end of a tree branch, where one appears to be challenging the others to a sword duel

Dr Syntax / Bees / 2nd Tour
BEES Dr Syntax and the bees

A City on Mercury
The inhabitants of Mercury are insectoid, and their techno- -logy is a superior form of that used by ants and bees on Earth : quartz crystals are used to build their cities

The Bear and the Bees
THE BEAR AND THE BEES The bear is stung by a bee and in retaliation overturns the hive whereupon hundreds of bees attack and sting him

Fable / the Two Bees
Two bees, one wise and temperate, the other careless and extravagant, arrive in a garden; one makes provision against the distant winter, the other gorges itself

Cyrene and Proteus
The water-nymph Cyrene threatens Proteus, who has taken the form of a beast, so he resumes his normal shape and reveals why her son Aristaeuss bees are sick

Various Bees
Various types of bee

Beehive Scene 1902
Humanised bees in a hive

Girl with Flowers & Bees
A little girl carrying a parcel of flowers is surrounded by bees

BEE KEEPER
Bee keeping - examining super frames

Beehive on a Gatepost
A bee keeper in a suit smokes straggling bees back into their hive with the aid of a pair of small smoking bellows

Bee Pulling a Plough
A bee pulling a plough (from the Serbian myth " The Finest Liar in the World"

Birth of Apiculture
The birth of Apiculture - when heifers are sacrificed, bees swarm from them - a gift from the gods to the pious

Bees in Ice
In Scandinavia, bees are kept in ice throughout the winter, to preserve them

Tending the Bees
A lady bee keeper tending her bees

Driving the Bees
DRIVING THE BEES from the old hive to the new; illustration to The Pleasure and Profits of Bee-Driving

Intoxicated Bees
Beware of bees when they are intoxicated - they become dangerous !

Hives at Gt Exhibition
Neighbours Cottage, Observatory and other hives displayed at the Great Exhibition, Crystal Palace

Border Showing Spring
Decorative border illustrating spring, with bees, flowers, butterflies and moths

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