Geese Collection

The Goose Girl by Muriel Dawson
A tiny girl in a fetching red dress guides a gaggle of geese

Hills. Christmas Is Coming. Cecil Aldin. 1898. jpg
Illustration by Cecil Aldin depicting a kindly Father Christmas reciting the traditional song, " Christmas is Coming, the Goose is getting Fat" to a gaggle of obviously dim geese

St Swithin / Dudley / Maxims
SAINT SWITHIN or SWITHUN Anglo-Saxon ecclesiastic, Bishop of Winchester, associated with a prediction of rain for 40 days

Fat Geese! by Lawson Wood
A cheeky young lad chuckles to himself after placing a sign for fattened geese on the posterior of a rather plump lady who is herself choosing which goose to buy for her Christmas dinner. Date: 1909

Christmas scene with Santa Claus and yule log. There are rabbit musicians, geese pulling the log, a pudding, a boars head, and people carrying flaming torches. 19th century

A Little Shy by Muriel Dawson
A little girl in a blue coat and hat, crouches down in the snow, encouraging a robin to eat crumbs from her gloved hands

Flock of geese flying over water
A flock of geese flying in formation over a stretch of water, with reeds in the foreground and the sun low on the horizon

Toulouse geese with dewlap, cock and hen. Oie de Toulouse a bavette, Anser anser domesticus. Bred by James Watts, winners of five first prizes

Anser brachyrhynchus, pink-footed goose
Watercolour and ink by John Gould (c. 1865). An example of a prelliminary work by Gould in preparation for an illustration which would be published in one of his books

Country landscape with four flying geese
A country landscape with four flying geese and the sun low in the sky

Lords Cricket Ground as a Goose Farm, 1915
Photograph showing the pitch and pavilion of Lords Cricket Ground, during the grounds use as a farm for rearing geese in World War I

Alopochen aegyptiaca, Egyptian goose
Plate 5 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Customs / Saint Swithin s
According to tradition, if it rains on the 15th of July - St Swithins Day - it will continue to rain for the following 40 days

Christmas Is Coming
Christmas is coming the geese are getting fat Please to put a penny in the old mans hat If you havent got a penny a hapenny will do If you havent got a hapenny God bless you Father Christmas sits in

WW1 - Lords Cricket Ground used as a Goose Farm, 1915
Photograph showing the pitch of the Marylebone Cricket Ground (Lord s), during the grounds use as a farm for rearing geese in World War I

The goose girl. Christmas greetings. Girl in bright outfit herding geese in snowy scene. Artist: Agnes Richardson Date: circa 1917

Little girl and robin by Muriel Dawson
A little girl offering some crumbs to a robin on a cold day, by Muriel Dawson. Date: 1920s

Advertisement for Meckumfat Sussex Ground Oats
Advertising poster for the fabulously named Meckumfat Sussex Ground Oats -...proved to be the best for making poultry plump !

Stream with Geese
A picturesque stream in the English countryside, with geese on the banks and swimming, and a flock of sheep neath the spring blossom

Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat. Please put a penny in the old man's hat. An illustration of Father Christmas keeping his eye on the curious geese. Date: 1900

Donkeys / Meadow 1862
Donkeys grazing in the meadow

Poster for Mother Goose, advertising a pantomime. Date: circa 1930s

Gaggle of Geese
A gaggle of five geese. Date: 1960s

Geese unhappy at the arrival of Michaelmas
A gaggle of geese are unhappy to read a notice that the season of Michaelmas has begun. Eating goose at Michaelmas was thought to bring good luck, but that did not apply to geese

Girl and goose on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Nature Scene

Coach at Red Lion 1868
A coach laden with hampers and hares, geese and other game halts at the Red Lion pub at Christmas time - and a white Christmas, too !

Michaelmas Goose
You are invited to admire this dead goose before it is plucked and prepared for your Michaelmas feast

Fattening Geese, France
Battery farming in 19th century France - keeping geese in mues to fatten them up to provide foie gras

Woman in white dress, pink fichu and corsage, pink bonnet-chapeau. Handcoloured lithograph by A. Carrache after an illustration by Francois-Claudius Compte-Calix from Les Modes Parisienne sous le

Dan Leno in Mother Goose, pantomime. circa 1903

Young Eskimo (Inuit) girl with a captured Arctic Hare Date: circa 1930s

A Young Dutch girl in traditional costume, tending to geese. Date: circa 1905

Settle Market Place early 1900's

Swan Green, Lyndhurst, New Forest, Hampshire - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Groombridge, Kent - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

A Trip to the Moon, by Muriel Baines
Illustration, A Trip to the Moon, by Muriel Baines Date: 20th century

A Gaggle of Geese
A painting of a content looking girl, carrying a large basket, walking through a forest accompanied by a gaggle of geese. Date: circa 1916

Young boy riding on ox along the edge of the Nile flood with the pyramids of Giza in the background, Cairo, Egypt. Date: circa 1905

Geese invade the field where the Brownies are sowing seeds Date: 1910

Farm Animals
Woodcut showing a large cow stood beside four geese. Date: circa 1929

Colour illustration by G E Studdy, captioned The Doctor'. Showing scene in barn, with rodent doctor listening to egg in cot, whilst anxious geese parents look

The Motor Picture Book, The Speed Merchant Date: 1930

Suffragette political cartoon, Louis Wain
Suffragette political cartoon, Comical Cats, by Louis Wain. Date: 1914

Two geese with holly and mistletoe on a Christmas card
Two dead geese hanging with holly and mistletoe on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Illustration, The Goosegirl -- Alas! dear Falada, there thou hangest. Date: 1909

Christmas goose at Leadenhall Market, London 1884
Buying a Christmas goose at Leadenhall Market, London. 1884

Ducks and geese by Edwin Bottomley

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