Blossom Collection

Blossom and Decay
BLOSSOM AND DECAY

Insects of Surinam
Plate 9 from Dissertatio de Generatione et Metamorphosibus Insectorum Surinamensium (1726) by Maria Sybilla Merian (1647-1717) & Johanna Helena Herolt (1668-1773)

Spring Flowers by Muriel Dawson
A little girl in a blue smock dress carries a bunch of daffodils and a twig of spring blossom

Japanese warrior woman with naginata
Japanese warrior woman with a large Naginata. A naginata is a pole weapon that was traditionally used in Japan by members of the samurai class

A selection of common British Moths Date: circa 1920s

Gentleman with shire horse, Mid Wales
A gentleman holding the reins of a shire horse in front of a house, probably somewhere in Mid Wales. A little girl watches from a distance

Tatler front cover 1956
Front cover design in a typical 1950s style for The Tatler Early Spring Number. A woman wearing a voluminous checked blouse has a moment to herself while surrounded by lilac blossom

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

Girls with Blossom 1889
Three little girls on the bank of a stream, surrounded by flowers and blossom

Circular countryside scene
A watercolour painting by Malcolm Greensmith showing a typical English rural countryside setting of a half-timbered cottage set amid fields, surrounded by fauna in the shape of a passing Cuckoo

Female Type / Pre-Raph
A Pre-Raphaelite style girl with long flame-coloured hair and white gown sits amongst the pink blossoms of a tree in bloom and gazes dreamily upwards

Lady and Blossom 1925
A girl, wearing a straw cloche hat with a two colour double brim and ornamented with a broad hatband and ribbon bow, smells some apple blossom

Japanese Peach Blossom
Two Japanese women admiring peach trees in blossom

Espalier Apple Blossom. McCloy, Samuel 1831 - 1904

Parus palustris, P. major, P. ater, P. cristatus, P. caeruleu
Plate 10 from Archibald Thorburns first edition of British Birds, Vol.1 (1915)

Prunus (Flowering Cherry Tree) in blossom
Prunus (Flowering Cherry Tree), laden with bright pink blossom

Mount Fuji in Springtime
A beautiful spring day. Fujiyama is in the distance and blossom is on the trees in the foreground

The Balkan States Exhibition - Earls Court - Old Japan
The Balkan States Exhibition at Earls Court in 1907 was really two exhibitions in one. The main event featured a large Balkan village with practical working exhibits by native workers (see)

Springtime by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl with a spring lamb. Date: circa 1940s

Kyoto, Japan - Maruyama Park - Cherry Blossom
Japan - Cherry Blossoms in Maruyama Park, Kyoto. The parks star attraction is a weeping cherry tree (shidarezakura), supported by a multitude of props. Date: circa 1910s

Carduelis flammea cabaret, lesser redpoll
Plate 52 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Stream with Geese
A picturesque stream in the English countryside, with geese on the banks and swimming, and a flock of sheep neath the spring blossom

Orange, citron, fig and almond
Fruits including citron, Citrus medica 1, 2, bitter orange, Citrus aurantium 3, sweet or Chinese orange, Citrus sinensis 4, fig, Ficus carica 5, and almond, Prunus amygdalus 6

Music cover, Apple Blossom Time
Music cover, I ll be with you in Apple Blossom Time, sung by The Andrews Sisters in the Universal Picture, Rookies. 1941

Avenue of cherry blossom, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Jamaica, West Indies - Banana Blossoms and fruit. Date: circa 1910s

Fantasy Landscape Diptych - Left
Cherry blossom branches overhang a misty fantasy landscape of soft hills, mountains and lakes. The left side of a Diptych painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Girl on Stile / Spring
A little girl in a blue dress stands on a stile: spring is well under way, with blossom on the trees and birds flying

Spring Announced 1876
Spring is announced to a pretty lady at a window

Egyptian Dress / Vionnet
Black dress by Madeleine Vionnet inspired by recent archaeological discoveries in Egypt: tubular long bodice with horizontal bands, gored skirt with handkerchief hem

Apple Newton Wonder
Newton Wonder Striped Beefing blossom of Striped Beefing

Blossom of Nakanocho. Print shows a woman, full-length, sitting on a bench, holding papers against her forehead; picture of a tree covered with blossoms hangs on the wall nearby

Arthurian / Guinevere
Guinevere rides a-Maying in the woods

Fantasy Landscape Diptych - Right
Cherry blossom branches overhang a misty fantasy landscape of soft hills, mountains and lakes. The right side of a Diptych painting by Malcolm Greensmith

APPLES
Gascoignes Seedling Sandringham, with blossom

Blossoms
A colour illustration of a group of scantily clad ladies picking blossom flowers

Chanson De Printemps
Lovely illustration featuring a girl in a pink dress, holding a straw hat enjoying the warbles of a bird in a tree

Social / Night on Town
She wears an evening coat by Worth: oriental cherry blossom fabric, wide full sleeves, fur cuffs & collar. He wears a black tailcoat & white tie

Japanese Spring Scene
Springtime in Japan - cherry blossom and a pair of birds

Springtime in London
A young woman stops to admire a lovely magnolia tree in blossom during the spring, the Temple, London, England

May Bowley Birds
Bluebirds on a branch laden with blossom. Artist: May Bowley. Date: 1920

Grey dagger, Apopestes spectrum and peach blossom moths
Grey dagger moth and larva, Acronicta psi 1, Apopestes spectrum moth and larva 2, peach blossom moth and caterpillar, Thyatira batis 3. Noctuelles psi, spectre, batis

A fine green open-top convertible 1920s sports car passes the Washington Monument and lake - Spring scene with springtime blossoms - Washington DC, USA

A Cherry Blossom Branch by Ogata Kenzan (1663-1747) Date: circa 1810s

Rural idyll, apple blossom

Victorian studio portrait girl with apple blossom

Cherry trees at Ueno, Tokyo, Japan, hand coloured photo

Blue Tit Date: circa 1910s

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