Persimmon Collection

Persimmon (Racehorse)
Winner of the Derby, owned by the Prince of Wales

Edwards Persimmon / Derby
Persimmon wins the Derby, owned by Edward Prince of Wales

Edward VII's racing victories
Montage showing Edward VII leading in Minoru, his 1909 Derby winner. The King is just seen underneath the top hat he is raising

Fossil shell of baculite or walking stick rock, an extinct cephalopod mollusc genus. Baculites vertebralis. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Japanese persimmon variety, Costata, Diospyros kaki. Chromolithograph by Hoen after a botanical illustration by D.G. Passmore from the Report of the Pomologist, US Department of Agriculture, 1892

Persimmon fruit and tree hovea
Persimmon, Dospyros kaki 1, and tree hovea or karri blue bush, Hovea elliptica Platychilum celsianum 2. Plaqueminier, Platychilier

Codex granatensis, c. 1400. Tacuinum sanitatis. Persimmon
IBN BUTLAN, Abu-l Hasan al-Mujtar (c. 1001 - 1066). Nestorian Christian physician and philosopher of Baghdad. Folio 84v. Illustration about persimmons, which preserve of drunkenness

Edward VII W / Persimmon
Edward VII with his horse Persimmon, which won the Derby three times. Date: 1898

Black plum or yellow persimmon, Diospyros australis or Cargillia australis.. Illustration drawn by William Jackson Hooker, engraved by Swan

Grasshopper eating persimmon. Print shows a grasshopper eating a persimmon hanging on a tree limb. Date between 1870 and 1900

Kaki (persimmon). Drawing shows a kaki, or Japanese persimmon, with stem, part of branch, and leaves. Date 1878?

Edward VII, Persimmon Derby victory
Edward VIIs horse, Persimmons victory at the Royal Derby of 1896. The Royal owner leading in the winner after the race

Japanese Arrangement -12
PERSIMMON and WHITE CHRYSANTHEMUM an Autumn arrangement

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