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Rhubarb Collection

Background imageRhubarb Collection: A bunch of Rhubarb - delicious with Birds Custard

A bunch of Rhubarb - delicious with Birds Custard
A bunch of Rhubarb - delicious with Birds Hot Custard Sauce - featuring a recipe for Rhubarb Charlotte Date: 1915

Background imageRhubarb Collection: Scene in the International Stores, Crediton, Devon

Scene in the International Stores, Crediton, Devon, with two middle-aged women chatting in an aisle. The photograph dates from before decimalisation of the currency -- tins of peaches are priced at

Background imageRhubarb Collection: Girl with Rhubarb C1880

Girl with Rhubarb C1880
A young girl carrying a large bunch of rhubarb under her arm

Background imageRhubarb Collection: Brazilian giant-rhubarb, Gunnera manicata

Brazilian giant-rhubarb, Gunnera manicata. Chromolithograph by P. de Pannemaeker from Jean Lindens l Illustration Horticole, Brussels, 1884

Background imageRhubarb Collection: Rhubarb seller

Rhubarb seller

Background imageRhubarb Collection: Rhubarb Hawker Victorian period

Rhubarb Hawker Victorian period

Background imageRhubarb Collection: Gathering Rhubarb

Gathering Rhubarb
This painting shows a tall woman wearing a blue headscarf and dress, carrying a basket laden with rhubarb stalks, which has been loaded by the two figures nearby

Background imageRhubarb Collection: Advert for Bird's Custard, highlighting its nutritional value when served with rhubarb. Date: 1932

Advert for Bird's Custard, highlighting its nutritional value when served with rhubarb. Date: 1932

Background imageRhubarb Collection: Comic postcard, Turnip, beans and rhubarb

Comic postcard, Turnip, beans and rhubarb Date: 20th century

Background imageRhubarb Collection: Officinal rhubarb, Rheum australe

Officinal rhubarb, Rheum australe. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by Edward Dalton Smith from Robert Sweets The British Flower Garden, Ridgeway, London

Background imageRhubarb Collection: Fruits, nuts and seeds

Fruits, nuts and seeds
Fruit, nuts and seeds including cannabis, fig, mulberry, beech, seagrape, rhubarb, buckwheat, laurel, nutmeg, mace, jabillo, castor oil, euphorbia, etc

Background imageRhubarb Collection: Chinese rhubarb, Rheum officinale

Chinese rhubarb, Rheum officinale. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887

Background imageRhubarb Collection: Leaf vegetables

Leaf vegetables, Herbes potageres. Chard, Beta vulgaris, nettle, Urtica dioica, rhubarb, Rheum rhabarbarum, garden orache, Atriplex hortensis

Background imageRhubarb Collection: Chinese rhubarb or rhubarb root, Rheum palmatum

Chinese rhubarb or rhubarb root, Rheum palmatum, Rhubarbe palmee. Handcoloured steel engraving by Debray after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr

Background imageRhubarb Collection: Chinese rhubarb or da-huang, Rheum palmatum

Chinese rhubarb or da-huang, Rheum palmatum. Handcoloured lithograph by Henry Sowerby from Edward Hamiltons Flora Homeopathica, Bailliere, London, 1852

Background imageRhubarb Collection: Giant rhubarb, Gunnera tinctoria

Giant rhubarb, Gunnera tinctoria
Chilean or giant rhubarb, Gunnera tinctoria (Gunnera scabra). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Background imageRhubarb Collection: Noble rhubarb or Sikkim rhubarb, Rheum nobile

Noble rhubarb or Sikkim rhubarb, Rheum nobile. Illustration copied from a sketch by Joseph Dalton Hooker. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens

Background imageRhubarb Collection: Rhubarb, Rheum palmatum

Rhubarb, Rheum palmatum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816

Background imageRhubarb Collection: True rhubarb, Rheum rhabarbarum

True rhubarb, Rheum rhabarbarum, roots 1, flower 2, leaf outline 3, stalk exterior 4, stalk section 7, root sections 5, 6

Background imageRhubarb Collection: English rhubarb, false rhubarb or rhapontic

English rhubarb, false rhubarb or rhapontic, Rheum rhaponticum. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley

Background imageRhubarb Collection: Chinese rhubarb, sharamoto, djumtsa or da-huang

Chinese rhubarb, sharamoto, djumtsa or da-huang, Rheum palmatum. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley

Background imageRhubarb Collection: Tibetan rhubarb, Rheum officinale

Tibetan rhubarb, Rheum officinale. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Background imageRhubarb Collection: Rhubarb, Rheum rhabarbarum

Rhubarb, Rheum rhabarbarum (Rheum undulatum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Background imageRhubarb Collection: Villagers chatting over cottage gate, 1890s

Villagers chatting over cottage gate, 1890s. One woman is holding a bundle of rhubarb. Date: 1890s

Background imageRhubarb Collection: Starting to Spit

Starting to Spit
Is it starting to spit ? Date: 1881

Background imageRhubarb Collection: WW2 poster, teacher and pupils on allotment

WW2 poster, teacher and pupils on allotment
WW2 poster (For Freedom series before lettering is added), showing a teacher and her pupils on allotment with rhubarb leaves

Background imageRhubarb Collection: Rheum x rhbarbarum, rhubarb

Rheum x rhbarbarum, rhubarb
Sketch 87 from the Ehret Collection of Sketches (unbound) by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageRhubarb Collection: Jungle Rhubarb

Jungle Rhubarb
Jungle leaves are tremendous - this rhubarb leaf can reach a diameter of 10 feet. Date: 1930s

Background imageRhubarb Collection: Growing rhubarb

Growing rhubarb
A lady gardener pictured with an impressive harvest of rhubarb. The fruit bushes behind her look healthy too. c.1945

Background imageRhubarb Collection: Healing Plants 1904 Pl. 1

Healing Plants 1904 Pl. 1
A selection of 11 healing plants & herbs including camomile and rhubarb

Background imageRhubarb Collection: Rhubarb Gathering 1916

Rhubarb Gathering 1916
Women gathering rhubarb in a field

Background imageRhubarb Collection: Rheum Hybridum / Rhubarb

Rheum Hybridum / Rhubarb
Rhubarb

Background imageRhubarb Collection: Mimosa, Pepper, Rhubarb

Mimosa, Pepper, Rhubarb
Mimosa cinerea, Jamaica pepper tree and turkey-rhubarb

Background imageRhubarb Collection: Rhubarb Lady 1926

Rhubarb Lady 1926
A young woman with a bunch of rhubarb under her arm and more in her basket


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