Currant Collection

Comic postcard, Man enjoying a picnic on the beach Date: 20th century

Redcurrant, Ribes spicatum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1804

Rock currants, Ribes petraeum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1800

Alpine currant, Ribes alpinum
Alpine currant or tasteless mountain currants, Ribes alpinum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1800

Blackcurrant, Ribes nigrum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1804

Manyflower currant, Ribes multiflorum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke from Conrad Loddiges Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, 1828

Ribes triflorum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke from Conrad Loddiges Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, 1825

Currants and berries, fruits en baies. Gooseberry, Ribes uva-crispa 1, 4, 5, white currant 2, redcurrant, Ribes rubrum 3, 6, and blackcurrant, Ribes nigrum 7

Magpie moth, Abraxas grossulariata, on a redcurrant branch, Ribes rubrum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and etched by Jacob l Admiral in Naauwkeurige Waarneemingen omtrent de veranderingen

BAKERY WINDOW 1970S
The window of a bakery displaying loaves of bread and cakes Date: 1970s

PICNIC & COW / SEYMOUR PICNIC & COW / SEYMOUR
O lawkes, theres that nasty cow walking all over our dinner! Oh dear, there goes his feet into the currant and raspberry pie!!! Date: circa 1835

Acrobat balancing pudding on nose on a Christmas card
Acrobat balancing a pudding on his nose on a Christmas and New Year card -- Balance of Currant Accounts. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of a jar of red currant jelly -- open to reveal a hare inside. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Acrobat balancing pudding on nose on a Christmas card
Acrobat balancing a pudding on his nose on a Christmas and New Year card -- Balance of Currant Accounts. Date: circa 1890s

Currant Happy Families - Soldier family. circa 1940s

Currant Happy Families - Policeman family. circa 1940s

Currant Happy Families - Conjurer family. circa 1940s

Currant Happy Families - Grocer family. circa 1940s

Currant Happy Families - Cobbler family. circa 1940s

Currant Happy Families - Butcher family. circa 1940s

Currant Happy Families - Barber family. circa 1940s

Currant Happy Families - Baker family. circa 1940s

Currant Happy Families - box front and card back - Spare the Currants, Spoil the Cake. circa 1940s

Acrobat balancing pudding on nose on a Christmas card
Acrobat balancing a pudding on his nose on a Christmas and New Year card -- Balance of Currant Accounts. circa 1890s

Illustration, Sphingidae -- Thyrididae -- Sesiidae -- Macroglossa Stellatarum, Macroglossa Croatica, Hemaris Bombyliformis, Hemaris Fuciformis, Thyris Fenestrella, Trochilium Apiformis

Ribes sativum, common currant
Plate 30 from Botanicum Medicinale (1759) by Timothy Sheldrake. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Berry Fruit
Plate 46 from Le Regne Vegetal, Vol 12, Hort. Atlas (1870). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. Entitled Fruits en Baies (grangeur naturelle)

Ribes sativum, white and red currants
Illustration from Full Instructions for the Young Artist (1817) by George Brookshaw. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Rhodomytris torneutosa, gooseberry
Plate 56 by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). Held at the Natural History Museum, London

Sixteen varieties of gooseberries

Nematus ribesii, gooseberry sawfly larvae
These caterpillars feed voraciously on gooseberry leaves, red and white currant leaves. They display distinct black spots on their green bodies and can have up to three generations within one year

CURRANTS
Victoria (red currant) White Dutch Black Naples (black currant)

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