The Goose Girl by Muriel DawsonA tiny girl in a fetching red dress guides a gaggle of geese
St Swithin / Dudley / MaximsSAINT SWITHIN or SWITHUN Anglo-Saxon ecclesiastic, Bishop of Winchester, associated with a prediction of rain for 40 days
Fat Geese! by Lawson WoodA 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
Hills. Christmas Is Coming. Cecil Aldin. 1898. jpgIllustration 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
A Little Shy by Muriel DawsonA 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 waterA flock of geese flying in formation over a stretch of water, with reeds in the foreground and the sun low on the horizon
Country landscape with four flying geeseA country landscape with four flying geese and the sun low in the sky
Lords Cricket Ground as a Goose Farm, 1915Photograph showing the pitch and pavilion of Lords Cricket Ground, during the grounds use as a farm for rearing geese in World War I
Toulouse geese with dewlap, cock and hen. Oie de Toulouse a bavette, Anser anser domesticus. Bred by James Watts, winners of five first prizes
Alopochen aegyptiaca, Egyptian goosePlate 5 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)
Customs / Saint Swithin sAccording to tradition, if it rains on the 15th of July - St Swithins Day - it will continue to rain for the following 40 days
WW1 - Lords Cricket Ground used as a Goose Farm, 1915Photograph showing the pitch of the Marylebone Cricket Ground (Lord s), during the grounds use as a farm for rearing geese in World War I
Christmas Is ComingChristmas 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
Little girl and robin by Muriel DawsonA little girl offering some crumbs to a robin on a cold day, by Muriel Dawson. Date: 1920s
Advertisement for Meckumfat Sussex Ground OatsAdvertising poster for the fabulously named Meckumfat Sussex Ground Oats -...proved to be the best for making poultry plump !
Stream with GeeseA picturesque stream in the English countryside, with geese on the banks and swimming, and a flock of sheep neath the spring blossom
Poster for Mother Goose, advertising a pantomime. Date: circa 1930s
Geese unhappy at the arrival of MichaelmasA 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
The goose girl. Christmas greetings. Girl in bright outfit herding geese in snowy scene. Artist: Agnes Richardson Date: circa 1917
Gaggle of GeeseA gaggle of five geese. Date: 1960s
Girl and goose on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Nature Scene
Coach at Red Lion 1868A coach laden with hampers and hares, geese and other game halts at the Red Lion pub at Christmas time - and a white Christmas, too !
Donkeys / Meadow 1862Donkeys grazing in the meadow
Michaelmas GooseYou are invited to admire this dead goose before it is plucked and prepared for your Michaelmas feast
Fattening Geese, FranceBattery farming in 19th century France - keeping geese in mues to fatten them up to provide foie gras
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 BainesIllustration, A Trip to the Moon, by Muriel Baines Date: 20th century
A Gaggle of GeeseA 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 AnimalsWoodcut 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 WainSuffragette political cartoon, Comical Cats, by Louis Wain. Date: 1914
Two geese with holly and mistletoe on a Christmas cardTwo 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 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
Christmas goose at Leadenhall Market, London 1884Buying a Christmas goose at Leadenhall Market, London. 1884
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
Ducks and geese by Edwin Bottomley
Irish Jacobite troops leaving Limerick for France, also known as the Flight of the Wild Geese, following the Treaty of Limerick, 3 October 1691
