Bough Collection

Christmas Eve - about 1460 by Pauline Baynes
Christmas Eve, as celebrated in 1460 with children bringing in holly and the Yule Log to be lit on Christmas Day, and other joining in a last minute carol practice

Bewick / Margay
(Felix wiedi) a nocturnal cat with exceptional climbing ability, able to hang from a bough with one paw

The Golden Bough
The GOLDEN BOUGH, discovered by Aeneas, was a focal point of Roman belief; for the full story, read Sir James Frazers multi-volumed investigation into its significance

Victorian illustration from the story The Mistletoe Bough
A Victorian illustration from the story The Mistletoe Bough'. This is image number 1 The old oak chest

Robins
Christmas. Two robins on a holly bough. Date: circa 1912

Ariel
This painting depicts Ariel, the spirit character from Shakespeare's The Tempest. It is a visual representation from Act 5, Scene 1, Merrily, merrily shall I live now

Sheet music with comic verse on a Christmas card -- Auld Lang Syne, Home Sweet Home, The Mistletoe Bough and Royal Country Dances (four tunes, fortunes). Date: circa 1890s

Sheet
A broadside, single page printed on one side, with an engraving at the top of the page of a kissing couple, illustrating the poem, The Mistletoe A Christmas Tale beneath

The nursery rhyme, Rock-a-bye baby, on the tree top
Rock-a-bye, baby, on the tree top, when the wind blows, the cradle will rock, when the bough breaks the cradle will fall, down will come baby, cradle and all. Date: c. 1930

Sheet music with comic verse on a Christmas card -- Auld Lang Syne, Home Sweet Home, The Mistletoe Bough and Royal Country Dances (four tunes, fortunes). Date: circa 1890s

Grandpapas Game by Charles Robinson
Illustration to accompany the Chapter titled Grandpapas Game. We see Grandmamma with her back towards us standing below a large bough of mistletoe

Sam Bough, R. S. A. at Jordanbank, Edinburgh
Sam Bough, R.S.A. (1822 - 78) at Jordanbank, Edinburgh (1878). Moore, James 1819 - 1883. Date: 1878

Hush-A-Bye Baby
Hush-A-Bye baby, upon the tree top; When the wind blows the cradle will rock; When the bough breaks

Redwing, Turdus iliacus perched on a holly bough (Ilex aquifolium).. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821

Angolan nobleman being carried by servants in a hammock.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Plate inscribed with parodic verses, WW1
Plate inscribed Here with a loaf of bread, beneath the bow. A muttered curse, but ne er a whine, and thou - beside me, singing in the wilderness. The wilderness is paradise, enow

Christmas - Children in the snow
Three children dressed in green walk along a snowy hilltop carrying boughs of holly. 1906

Baby Scouts -- parachuting with hats
Baby Scouts -- But girl scouts view the aeroplanes with dread; they much prefer to use their hats instead. Date: 1900

The Tower of Said: Desert Landscape with Figures. Bough, Sam 1822 - 1878

Woodman, spare that tree, touch not a single bough. Funds would be scarce if we should run amuck - just now. Illustration shows President Theodore Roosevelt stopping Philander Chase Knox from cutting

The Graphic Christmas Number front cover, 1927
Front cover of The Graphic Christmas Number for 1927 entitled A Crinoline Christmas. A lady in a voluminous yellow crinoline dress stands precariously on a chair to place candles on the bough of a

The Nymph of the Tree Top
A nymph, naked except for diaphanous drapery, stands above the tree tops surveying the forest below

Birds on a Bough
Three birds on a bough huddle together for warmth and comfort

Boy with Mistletoe
A French boy with a bough of mistletoe to wish you Bonne Annee !

Card; Birds on Bough
Birds on a snowy bough, with holly berries

Robin in Snow
A robin on a bough

Robin on Bough
A robin on a wintry bough over a pond

Robins on Bough
Two robins perch on a branch in a country setting

Robins on a Branch
Several robins on a snowy bough

Carol Singer
Christ is born in Bethlehem - a girl sings beneath a wintry bough

Peacocks and Peahens
One peacock perches on a bough, letting its tail droop while another puts on a show, one peahen shows interest but the others peck for food. (Pavo cristatus)

Decorative Bird
Decorative bird on the bough of a fruit tree

Hush-A-Bye (Greenaway)
- though here its Rock-a-bye baby on the tree top... when the wind blows, the cradle will rock, when the bough breaks, cradle will fall

Hush a Bye Baby (Kate G)
A baby sleeps in its cradle among the apple blossom, unaware of the danger that at any moment the bough may break, in which case down will go cradle and baby and all

Aeneas & Golden Bough
Aeneas finds the Golden Bough

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