Dandelion Collection

Taraxacum Officinale
(var. palustre) COMMON DANDELION

Discovery of a Dandelion on Centre Court
The crowd, groundsmen, officials and players on the Centre Court of Wimbledon are astonished to discover the presence of a cheeky dandelion on the court

Dandelion Clock by Muriel Dawson
Charming illustration of a small child, probably a little boy in blue smock and shorts seated on a small tuffet of grass and blowing a dandelion clock while clutching a favourite doll in his other

Taraxacum officinale, dandelion (fruiting head)
Scanning electron microscope image showing a vertical section through an unripe fruiting head of a dandelion in the yellow flower stage. Colour added artificially by computer

One o Clock, Two o Clock by Muriel Dawson
A little girl sits in a field accompanied by her pet dog and blows a dandelion clock

Dandelion Clock & Prayer
A dandelion clock is used as a metaphor for measuring your life by loss and not by gain

Fairies learn to dance before they learn to walk (Fairy Lore). 1920s

Filling the Air with Fairy Forms -- a little girl blows a dandelion clock and in her imagination it turns into a flight of fairies. Date: circa 1920s

Frontispiece illustration, Peter, the fox terrier. Date: 1912

Country Flowers and Butterflies
Many varieties of wild flowers with a Cabbage White and Tortoiseshell butterflies. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Healing Plants 1904 Pl. 3
A selection of 10 healing plants & herbs including nettle, dandelion, chicory, fennel, peppermint & anise

Girl with Dandelion 1900
A small girl sits in a green meadow telling the time by dandelion clocks

Female Type / Dandelions
An elegant young woman out for a walk with her dog holds a dandelion - the French version of " He loves me, he loves me not..." ?

Common dandelion, Taraxacum campylodes (Taraxacum officinale). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst

Fairy Time - A seated fairy blows a dandelion head
Fairy Time - A seated fairy queen blowing the seeds off a dandelion seed head, whilst two sprites rest nearby under two toadstools Date: 1939

Dandy Puffs by Margaret Tarrant from Joan in Flowerland
Dandy Puffs by Margaret Tarrant, from Joan in Flowerland

Dandelion-Puff Balloon Club by Thomas Maybank Date: 1920

Root plants and vegetables including artichoke, globe thistle, chicory, dandelion, centaury, tansy, passionflower, rafflesia, pumpkin, sunflower, etc

Gum succory species, Chondrilla juncea. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Salad plants, plantes pour salades. Dandelion, Taraxacum dens, corn salad, Valeriana locusta, lettuce, Lactuca sativa, chicory, Cichorium intybus, and endive, Cichorium endivia

Dandelion or taraxacum, Leontodon taraxacum. Handcoloured lithograph by Charlotte Caroline Sowerby from Edward Hamiltons Flora Homeopathica, Bailliere, London, 1852

Capeweed, Arctotheca calendula (Cryptostemma calendulaceum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after an illustration by John Curtis from Samuel Curtis Botanical Magazine, London, 1822

Dandelion, Taraxacum officinale. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Village family, 1890s
A village family: husband, wife and daughter. The woman holds up a dandelion clock for her little girl. Date: 1890s

Curtis British Entomology Plate 248
Lepidoptera: Polia occulta = Eurois occulta (Great Brocade) [Plant: Taraxacum officinale (Leontodon taraxacum, Common Dandelion)] Date: 1824-39

GIRL WITH DANDELION 1900
A small girl sits in a green meadow telling the time by dandelion clocks. Date: 1900

Dandelion botanical study.. Lithograph with pochoir (stencil) handcoloring from Eugene Grassets Plants and their Application to Ornament, Paris, 1897

Jugendstil Dandelion
Dandelion in Jugendstil

Dandelion in art nouveau patterns.. Lithograph with pochoir (stencil) handcoloring from Eugene Grassets Plants and their Application to Ornament, Paris, 1897

Marie Tempest with hat of Clock Dandelions
(Dame) Marie Tempest (Marie Susan Etherington) (1864-1942) English stage actress, who occasionally appeared in films. Wearing a quite extraordinary hat adorned with Clock Dandelions ! Date: circa 1902

Dandelion / Jugend 1904
A stylized, Art Nouveau depiction of a flower - possibly a dandelion. Date: 1904

Meadow in Summer 1904
A profuse proliferation of dandelion heads in a German meadow in high summer

Flowers - Dandelion - Dandelions in grass. Part of Box 6 Boswell Collection. Date: circa 1900

X-Ray - Dandelion. Part of Box 165 Boswell Collection - X-Rays. Date: circa 1900

Illus, Cossidae -- Cochliopodidae -- Hepialidae -- Psychidae
Illustration, Cossidae -- Cochliopodidae -- Hepialidae -- Psychidae -- Cossus Ligniperda, Zeuzera Aesculi, Limacodes Testudo, Hepialus Humuli, Hepialus Lupulinus, Hepialus Hectus, Psyche Unicolor

Cupid blowing dandelion seeds in a garden. Date: circa 1910s

Compound flowers: daisy Bellis perennis, thistle Onopordum acanthium and dandelion Taraxacum.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtiss

Dandelion, branchy dandelion, and rough hawkbit.. Handcolored botanical copperplate engraving from Joshua Hamiltons Culpepers English Family Physician; or Medical Herbal Enlarged

Testing the Heart by Edmund Blampied
A young woman in peasant dress plays " He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not" with a dandelion clock. Date: 1914

Shield Bug / Stink bug - in a dandelion (Pentatomidae sp.). South Tuva, Russia

Puff Ball by Muriel Dawson -- a little boy blows the seeds off a dandelion head. Date: 1946

Advert for the Ministry of Food 1945
Something new in salad. Salad making gives full scope to your powers of invention. For almost all vegetables are at home in the salad bowl, and you can try them in almost endless combinations

Dandy Pianist - a Wow with the Party Ladies
Botany - The Dandelion - a florid little man! A wow with all the ladies (up to a point!). A pianist, possibly modelled in part on popular Polish pianist Paderewski? Date: circa 1907

Taraxacum offininale, dandelion clock
Dandelion seeds (Taraxacum offininale) in the Wildlife Garden at the Natural History Museum, London. Photograph taken by Derek Adams, April 2003

Dandelion growing in the Wildlife Garden at the Natural History Museum, London. Photographed by Derek Adams, May 2003

Tetrax tetrax, little bustard
Plate 18 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Taraxacum officinale, dandelion
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a dandelion (x 80)

Boy blowing a dandelion clock

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