Garlic Collection

Diego Velazquez (1599-1660). Old Woman Cooking Eggs, 1618
Diego Velazquez (1599-1660). Spanish Baroque painter. The Old Woman Cooking Eggs, 1618. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

Plants / Allium Ursinum
RAMSONS, a species of GARLIC

Garlic, Allium sativum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants), Jena

Mandrake, Mandragora officinarum. Atropa mandragora, Linn. Sp. plant 250. Mandragore. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Jean Victor Dupin junior from Pierre Joseph Buchoz Herbier Artificial

Naples garlic or daffodil garlic, Allium neapolitanum (Neapolitan moly). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after Edwin Dalton Smith from John Lindley

Naples garlic or Neapolitan moly, Allium neapolitanum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by Edward Dalton Smith from Robert Sweets The British Flower

Tadpoles of the spadefoot toad, Pelobates fuscus
Tadpoles of the spadefoot or garlic toad, Pelobates fuscus (alliaceous toad, Rana alliacea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Heath after an illustration by George Shaw from his General Zoology

Spadefoot or garlic toad, Pelobates fuscus (alliaceous toad, Rana alliacea) with chain of ova or spawn. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Heath after an illustration by George Shaw from his

Wild garlic, Allium sativum var. ophioscorodon, and sand leek, Allium scorodoprasum. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt

Garlic, Allium sativum, and wild garlic, Allium vineale. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Wild radish, Raphanus raphanistrum, and garlic
Wild radish, Raphanus raphanistrum, and jack by the hedge or garlic mustard, Alliaria petiolata. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch

Italian garlic, Allium pendulinum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke from Conrad Loddiges Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, 1825

Edible bulbous plants, plantes bulbeuses alimentaires. Onion, Allium cepa, shallot, Allium ascalonicum, chives, Allium schoenoprasum, and garlic, Allium sativum

Jack-by-the-hedge, Alliaria petiolata
Jack-by-the-hedge or garlic mustard, Alliaria petiolata, Alliaria officinalis, Alliaire officinale. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lebrun after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert

Naples garlic, Allium pallens. Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendals German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871

Yellow-flowered garlic, Allium flavum. Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendals German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871

Keeled garlic or witchs garlic, Allium carinatum. Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendals German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871

Field garlic, Allium oleraceum. Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendals German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871

Wild garlic, Allium vineale
Wild garlic, crow garlic or stags garlic, Allium vineale. Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendals German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871

Round-headed leek or purple-flowered garlic, Allium rotundum. Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendals German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871

Mouse garlic, Allium angulosum (Allium acutangulum). Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendals German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871

Mountain garlic, Allium lusitanicum (Allium fallax). Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendals German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871

Hairy garlic, Allium subhirsutum. Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendals German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871

Rosy garlic, Allium roseum. Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendals German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871

Black garlic, Allium nigrum. Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendals German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871

Ramsons, buckrams, or wild garlic, Allium ursinum. Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendals German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871

Streaked field garlic, Allium oleraceum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

Round-headed garlic, Allium sphaerocephalon (Purple-headed garlick, Allium descendens). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sansom after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis

Allium stellerianum (Jonquil-leaved garlic. Allium bisulcum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis The Botanical Magazine

Yellow garlic, Allium flavum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis The Botanical Magazine, London, 1810

Nodding onion, Allium cernuum
Nodding onion, ladys leek or bowed-umbelled garlic, Allium cernuum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom Jr. after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis Botanical

Vegetable Seller, Paris
A working class woman in Paris, selling vegetables from a basket balanced on her head Date: 16th century

Plants / Allium Sp
Two species of WILD GARLIC ALLIUM OLERACEUM French : ail potager ALLIUM FLAVUM

Allium sativum, garlic
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Garlic Plant Incl. Bulb
Garlic, showing the purple flower and the bulb

Wild Garlic - a view of the flowers growing outside. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Spanish Stuffed Bread
Spanished stuffed bread, made with olive oil, a spanish onion, butter, garlic, eggs and garnished with macaroni cheese, but looking rather like a pair of sandles! Date: 1960s

Garlic plant. Date: 19th century

A woman buying food from a street vender

Young Kitchenmaid shocked by the odour of Brown Garlic - " Lovely grub - lovely grub!" Date: circa 1940s

Allium ampeloprasum, broadleaf wild leek
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Allium ursinum, wild garlic
Ramsons, or wild garlic is an attractive flower in the woodlands area of the Wildlife Garden at the Natural History Museum, London. Photographed by Derek Adams, April 2003

Garlic Vendor Spain 1882
In French country districts, garlic is sold as a protection against vampires Date: 1882

Garlic farmer in Mexico with a load of Maspero Company garlic on an ox cart

Bosnia & Herzegovina - Market Scene
Bosnia & Herzegovina - General Market Scene

Turkish Beggar - Albanian / Macedonian region
Turkish Beggar in the Albanian / Macedonian region of the Ottoman Empire

Vegetable Seller, Paris
A working class woman in Paris, selling vegetables from a basket balanced on her head

French Garlic Seller
itinerant garlic seller - presumably French

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