Chestnut Collection (page 2)

Chestnut horse with white stripe looking over a stable door
Chestnut horse with a white stripe on its face looking over a stable door. Date: circa 1960s

Curtis British Entomology Plate 611
Lepidoptera: Pachycnemia hippocastanaria (Horse Chestnut Moth) [Plant: Cytisus scoparius (Broom)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 268
Lepidoptera: Glaea subnigra = Conistra ligula ab. subnigra (Dark Chestnut) [Plant: Gymnadenia conopsea (Orchis conopsea, Right-handed Orchis)] Date: 1824-39

Skates in Hyde Park, drawn by John Leech 1857
Scene in Hyde Park on the lake Serpentine, crowds of people making the most of the wintery snap by having a enjoyable time on the frozen ice. Date: 1857

Threshing chestnuts trees in Greenwich Park 1857
Yearly tradition, for three weeks young youths poured into Greenwich Park, London to collect conkers. Climbing up chestnut trees, even using ladders to reach their prize

SELLING ROAST CHESTNUTS
A man stirs his roasting chestnuts with a metal spoon. Date: 1940s

SELLING HOT CHESTNUTS
Selling hot, roasted chestnuts in paper bags in the street. Date: 1930s

Frustrated photographer at trotting races, Mahon, Menorca
A male photographer tries to take a close-up picture of a racehorse in its stable - but the horse pushes its nose into his camera to take a closer look

Windsor Great Park
Dog walkers in an avenue of chestnut trees, Windsor Great Park. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1989

Howitzer and Light Dragon - A Battery - The Chestnut Troop
Light Dragon tractor towing a 3.7-inch howitzer on Carriage Mk IV and limber of A Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, circa 1938 - A Battery (The Chestnut Troop)

By Order of the Owner - Lot 1. Kitty, Chestnut Mare (property of a lady - very fast) - a lightly satirical (to whom does the description apply!!) postcard by Lance Thackeray (1867-1916). Date: 1902

Chestnut-belted gnateater, Conopophaga aurita, and flame robin, Petroica phoenicea.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology

Micro Bikini Top 1950S
A fresh faced model with chestnut curls and a beaming smile adjusts the narrow spaghetti straps to her red & white polka dot bikini top which she wears with shorts

Moreton Bay chestnut seed pod
Castanospermum australe, Moreton Bay chestnut seed pod collected in Queensland, Australia in 1909 Date: 1909

Four fine horses
Portrait painting of four fine horses - two chestnuts, a black and a grey. Date: circa 1910s

Thornton Hough Smithy
The Village Smithy (blacksmith), with its spreading old chestnut tree, at Thornton Hough, Wirral, England. Date: 1930s

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire - Promenade from Queens Hotel. Date: 1936

Spanish Chestnut Seller (Castanero). Date: 1902

Occupations 1882 - Hot Chestnut Seller. 1882

Sweet Or Spanish Chestnut (Castanea Sativa) - a view of a cutting on a white background. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Carpenters Hall - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Chestnut Street. The Company was instituted in 1724 and the building was completed in 1775. Date: circa 1902

Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
A view of Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. A horse and cart are passing by. Date: circa 1895

Chestnut st, Philadelphia
Built between 1752-1753 Chestnut streets Independence Hall saw the decloration of independence and the United States constitution debated and adopted with in its walls

Mary Baker Eddy / Richards
MARY BAKER EDDY Founder of Christian Science in later life, at her Chestnut Hill home Date: 1821 - 1910

Channel-billed cuckoo and chestnut-breasted malkoha
Crested honey-buzzard, Pernis ptilorhynchus, and white-tailed hawk, Buteo albicaudatus.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science

Chestnut-fronted macaw, Ara severus.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine, Harrison, London, 1800

Old Vreeland House, Nutley, New Jersey, USA
Old Vreeland House or Homestead (built 1704), Chestnut Street, Nutley, New Jersey, USA. It was the home of the Dutch painter Bastian Van Giesen or Giessen. Date: circa 1907

Greetings card, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Greetings card, Souvenir of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, showing Chestnut Street (left) and Arch Street (right). Date: circa 1900

One-eyed man roasting chestnuts at market
One-eyed pipe-smoking man roasting chestnuts at a street market with car passing behind him. Date: 1930s

Sale of Roast Chestnuts on Street
Pipe-smoking man selling roast chestnuts to female customer on street Date: 1930s

London Street Chestnut Seller - " All Hot". Date: 1894

Ara severus, chestnut-fronted maccaw
Plate 229, hand coloured copperplate etching from George Edwards The Gleanings of Natural History, Vol. 1 (1758)

Choeropus castanotis, chestnut-eared choeropus
Cheropus castanotis. Plate 6 from Mammals of Australia Volume 1, by John Gould, 1863

Castanea sativa, sweet chestnut tree
Plate from Pomona Italiana Vol 2, 1839 by Giorgio Galisio. Illustration entitled Castagna Marona

Aesculus hippocastanum, common horse chestnut
A native of Albania and Greece, is planted as an ornamental tree. The large seeds, conkers, were used as narcotics in the 19th century when they were considered to have an effect equal to opium

Cameraria ohridella, horse chestnut leafminer

Castanea, chestnut
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection at the NHM, London

Dioon edule, chestnut dioon
A watercolour illustration of the cones belonging to a male chestnut dioon (Dioon edule). Original artwork part of the James Yates (1789-1871) collection presented by the Linnean Society, 1914

Dendroica pensylvanica, chestnut-sided warbler
Plate 59 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Merops leschenaulti, chestnut-headed bee-eater
Plate 33, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)

Collection of birds feathers
Plate 25 from Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous (1858) by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928)

Aesculus hippocastanum, horse chestnut tree
Photographed by Pat Hart, Summer 2003

(1) lamberts nut (2, 6) chestnut (3) hazelnut (4, 4a) almond
Plate 50 from Le Regne Vegetal, Vol 12, Hort. Atlas, 1870. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum. Entitled Fruits en chaton ou a enveloppe ligneuse

Parus atricapillus, Parus rufescens, Psaltriparus minimus
Plate 353 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Picoides villosus, Melanerpes lewis, M. carolinus, Sphyrapic
Plate 416 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Calcarius ornatus Carduelis magellanica Zonotrichia atricapi
Plate 394 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

The Chestnut Sellers. Italian anonymous. Costumbrism. Watercolour

PS Duval & Son, lithographers, 22 & 24 South 5th St. ab. Chestnut, Philada. Print showing advertisement for printing firm with a scene entitled The dream of heaven depicting a sleeping woman being

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