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The Goose Girl by Muriel DawsonA tiny girl in a fetching red dress guides a gaggle of geese
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
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
Country landscape with four flying geeseA country landscape with four flying geese and the sun low in the sky
St Swithin / Dudley / MaximsSAINT SWITHIN or SWITHUN Anglo-Saxon ecclesiastic, Bishop of Winchester, associated with a prediction of rain for 40 days
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
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 gooseWatercolour 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
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
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
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
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
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 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 !
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
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
Donkeys / Meadow 1862Donkeys grazing in the meadow
Poster for Mother Goose, advertising a pantomime. Date: circa 1930s
Gaggle of GeeseA gaggle of five geese. Date: 1960s
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
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 !
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
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 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 goose at Leadenhall Market, London 1884Buying a Christmas goose at Leadenhall Market, London. 1884
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
Resting, by William Lee Hankey - Union Jack Club Date: 1907
Comic postcard, hen and goose, WW2 Date: 1940s
Flock of GeeseAs evening falls, a flock of geese being driven back to the safety of the farm. Artist: Ernest Linzell
Fox and GeeseArtists interpretation of traditional childrens games. Artist: Helen GC Marsh Lambert. Date: circa 1916
Trades in Regency England: basket making, geese plucking and whips. Basket-maker weaving willow into baskets and hampers on the Isle of Ely 34
Trades in Norfolk, Regency England. Barley, turnips and game. Farm laborers on a straw bail after a barley harvest 34, sheep eating turnips 35, and hunter poaching for game rabbits 36
Army officers performing the Wetting the Commission ritualArmy officers performing a ritual commission ceremony. An officer wets a document in a bowl of punch with a sword at the Elephant and Castle pub. Wetting an Irish Commission
Guinea fowls, helmeted guineafowl, Numida meleagris. Property of J. W. Ludlow. Chromolithograph by Vincent Brooks Day & Son after an illustration by J.W
Jolly clown with a white goose. 20th century
Board games of the 14th centuryBoard games including fox and geese, dice, merelles, chess, circular chess and tables (backgammon), and the philosophers game
Christmas Greetings postcard. circa 1910
Front cover, Sweet Sunny Days, Picture Book, showing four children and three geese in a rural setting. Date: circa 1900s
Christmas card, The Temptation of Good Saint Anthony NoelChristmas card by Robert Dudley, The Temptation of Good Saint Anthony Noel (surrounded by enticing Christmas food, including geese, a turkey and a pudding). (5 of 5) Date: circa 1890s
Christmas card, Robin Hood and Friar TuckChristmas card by Robert Dudley, A Blazing Yule for Robin Hood and Friar Tuck (a robin and Father Christmas with a turkey). (4 of 5) Date: circa 1890s
Christmas card, Old King ColeChristmas card by Robert Dudley, Old King Cole (with two geese and a turkey as his musicians). (3 of 5) Date: circa 1890s
Christmas card, Little Red Riding HoodChristmas card by Robert Dudley, Little Red Riding Hood as a goose (meeting the wolf, observed by robins). (2 of 5) Date: circa 1890s
Foxs adventures with verses inside a Christmas cardFoxs adventures with a crow, geese and a rabbit inside a Christmas card. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s
Mr Punch and Judy on a Christmas card -- he steals a goose from the poulterer (left) and brings it home for Judy to cook (right). Date: circa 1890s
Cat and dog outside and inside a house on a Christmas cardCat and dog waiting at a door on a Christmas card, with indoor scenes including a cosy fireside. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s
Home Sweet Home -- farmyard scene. (3 of 5) Date: circa 1890s
Preparing for Christmas 18462400 geese from Boston, Lincolnshire were taken to a dealer of poultry at Spalding, where they were fattened up for the Christmas festive and sold in London markets. Date: 1846
SURREY : The pond on the common at Esher, with some geese. Date: 1906
The Common and pond - East Runton nr. Cromer, North Norfolk1912
Barnacle Geese Date: 1835
Poultry show at the Crystal Palace 1870Poultry show at the Crystal Palace, at the same time as the cattle show was being held at Islington. There was above 1100 pens of fowls, besides turkeys, ducks, geese and pheasants
GEESE IN FRANCEGeese in a French farmyard. (Anser domesticus) Date: 1902
ADMIRING THE GOOSEA small girl admires the goose and looks forward to her Christmas dinner. Date: circa 1880
GOOSE SERIES (1 OF 4)Geese swim in the wild (picture 1 of 4). Date: circa 1840
FLEMISH POULTRY MARKETA Flemish Poultry Market. Date: circa 1600
GOOSE MARKET IN POLANDThe goose market, Krakow. A prospective buyer inspecting the geese while two scruffy children look on. Date: 1869
THE GOOSE GIRL & GEESE THE GOOSE GIRL & GEESEThe goose girl with her geese, and in the distance the castle where, who knows ? she may one day be the princess
Goose Club at Christmas 1853Goose Clubs in London, sixpence every Saturday evening after wages received for ten or twelve weeks before Christmas for a goose or turkey and a bottle of spirit, to be carried home on Christmas eve
MEDICAL / DOCTORSSatire on self-serving medical profession: predatory fox dupes easily-led geese Date: 1833
GEESE HONOURED BY ROMEGeese, whose cackling warned the Romans of the approach of Brennus and his Gauls, are municipally honoured Date: 390 BC
Three Chinese geese - Abbey Gardens, Bury St. EdmundsThree Chinese geese walk past an elderly couple in Abbey Gardens, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk England. The old gentleman, who carries a large bag
