Melon 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

Melon Market, Naples (Napoli), Italy. Date: 1899

DRESSMAKERs BILL C1816
Maids dress: melon sleeves, deep v corsage, chemisette & ruff, apron & turban. Lady: white pelisse with scallop edging & ribbon trim, dress with ruff & decorative hem

Comic postcard, Vegetable love, The Allotment Love Letter Date: 20th century

Madam gorgon, Acicarpha tribuloides. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy, 1837

The Language of Fruit - different fruit conveying different emotions and feelings. Date: circa 1920s

Replete Seagull on the shore having consumed a Watermelon
Replete Seagull on the shore having consumed a large Watermelon slice - reproduction of a Japanese woodblock print. Date: circa 1900s

Water Melon Seller, Cairo
A water melon seller with his laden donkey in a narrow Cairo street; baskets are lowered on ropes to collect slices of melon Date: 1912

Home Sweet Home down South - Kentucky, USA. A slightly-derogatory view of the run-down home of a black family in the deep south of America. Date: 1907

Unloading watermelons, Pier A at Newport News, Virginia, USA
Unloading watermelons at Pier A at Newport News, Virginia, USA. Date: circa 1910s

Seller of melons, Egypt
Man selling melons at train station in Egypt. Date: circa 1930s

Melon sellers, Egypt
Melon sellers near the Suez Canal in Egypt offer up their wares. Date: circa 1930s

Comic postcard, Man eating slice of melon Date: 20th century

Plan of a small formal garden for a stately home, 1821. With paths around a central fountain and flowerbeds. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rudolph Ackermanns Repository of Arts, London, 1821

Melon cactus, Melocactus caroli-linnaei. Cactus melocactus, Catto poponiforme. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Winter melon or Valencia melon, Cucumis melo, raised in Spain. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical painting by William Hooker from The Transactions of the Horticultural Society of

Musk melon, watermelon and pineapple
Musk melon, Cucumis melo, watermelon, Citrullus vulgaris, and pineapple, Ananas comosus. Copperplate engraving by A. Smith after an original illustration by Captain John Gabriel Stedman from his

Fruits, fruits legumieres. Chayote, Sechium edule 1, 2, Cantaloupe melon, Cucumis melo var. cantalupo 3, , and watermelon, Citrullus lanatus 4, 5

Melon, oil beetle and sheep ked
European oil beetle, Meloe proscarabaeus 1, 2, melon de Honfleur, Cucumis melo 3, and sheep ked, Melophagus ovinus 4. Meloe, Melon, Melophage

Bitter gourd or bitter melon, Momordica charantia
La Momordique de la Chine. Bitter gourd or bitter melon, Momordica charantia. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus

Two women with prize fruit at a Kentucky fair, USA
Two women with a table of prize fruit at a Kentucky fair, USA

Melon seller with donkey Cairo, Egypt. Date: 1980s

HARVESTING MELONS
Almost ripe - a young woman squeezes a melon inside a greenhouse. Date: 1950s

Ripe fruit, vine and yellow flowers of the Scarlet Fleshed Rock Melon, Cucumis melo.. Handcolored illustration by Edwin Dalton Smith engraved by Watts from Charles McIntoshs Flora and Pomona 1829

Fruit seller in street market, Aden
Fruit seller in a street market, British colony of Aden (now in Yemen). Date: circa 1930s

Samarkand, Uzbekistan - Melon Seller. Date: circa 1905

A man and his camel in Egypt
An Egyptian man has his ear bitten by his camel -- possibly a sign of affection? Date: early 20th century

Table display -- shellfish with wine, vegetables and fruit. 19th century

Merchant selling melons and watermelons, Ghardaia
Customers look at the stall of a merchant selling melons and watermelons on a street in Ghardaia. Date: circa 1910s

Melon Sellers - Tashkent, Uzbekistan Date: 1910s

Samarkand, Uzbekistan - Watermelon Sellers before the Mosque
Samarkand - Uzbekistan - Watermelon Sellers before the Mosque. The building back left is one of the three madrasahs of the Registan, the heart of the ancient city

Spain. Galicia. Melon. Cistercian monastery of St. Mary. Ent
Spain. Galicia. Melon. Cistercian monastery of St. Mary, founded in 1142. Entrance

Japan - Greengrocer (Fruit Shop) and bar Date: circa 1908

Pseudocolocynthis pomiformis by Basil Besler
Pseudocolocynthis pomiformis from Hortus Eystettensis by Basil Besler

Fossil Holothurian or sea cucumber
Staurocystis quadrifasciata, 6.5 cm long, from the Silurian, Wenlock Limestone of Dudley in Worcestershire, England

Fruit and yellow flowers of the green-fleshed cantaloupe melon, Cucumis melo var. cantalupensis.. Handcolored illustration by E.D

Bermuda scouts on Melon Parade. Date: circa 1920s

Flying Melons
Boxes of Ogen melons waiting to be loaded onto a plane at Lod (now Ben Gurion International) airport, Tel Aviv, Israel. Date: 1960s

Repeating Pattern - Watermelons. *PLEASE NOTE that the magnifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern and will not feature on the final file.*

(1, 2) chayote (3) cantaloupe melon (4, 5) watermelon

Deima fastosum, holothurian echinoderm
Illustration of a Holothurian echinoderm from Report on the Holothuroidea dredged by H.M.S. Challenger, 1872-1876

Citrus medica, citron melon
Illustration from Botanical magazine, No.6745, by J.N. Fitch. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Momordica cochinchinensis, Chinese bitter melon
Illustration from the Fleming Collection of Indian Drawings, 1800. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Momordica charantia, balsam pear or African cucumber
Drawing 31 (Ewan 14) from the Botanical and zoological drawings (1756-1788) by William Bartram. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Amicua melon
An illustration of a melon from Plate LXXII in a volume published by George Brookshaw. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

MURILLO, Bartolom項steban (1617-1682). Baggar
MURILLO, Bartolom項 steban (1617-1682). Baggar Boys Eating Grapes and Melon. 1645 - 1646. Baroque art. Oil on canvas. GERMANY. Munich. Alte Pinakothek (Old Pinacotheca)

CABRAL BEJARANO, Manuel (1827-1891); CABRAL BEJARANO, Manuel (1827-1891). Cutting a piece out of melon. 1864; Cutting a piece out of melon. 1864. It belongs to colecci󮠂 ellver

Kairouan Tunisia
General view over the rooftops of Kairouan (Kirwan or al-Qayrawan), Tunisia Date: circa 1910s

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping