Smelling Collection

Hogarth Rake Plate 7
The Rakes Progress 7. Scene in the Fleet prison

Lady and Blossom 1925
A girl, wearing a straw cloche hat with a two colour double brim and ornamented with a broad hatband and ribbon bow, smells some apple blossom

Arctic Fox searches for food, sniffing lemmings and other food under deep snow on Kara sea shore (Alopex lagopus). tundra of Taimyr peninsula, North of Siberia, Russian Arctic, winter

Advertisement for Rigaud perfumes, featuring a semi-naked woman inhaling the aroma from a bottle of scent. 1924

The Sketch debutante number front cover 1956
Front cover of The Sketch magazines debutante number, featuring the face of a woman wearing pink gloves, hiding partially behind a small posy of violets

Seaside Weather Forecasts - Strong smelling Fish
Seaside Weather Forecasts - Very Fresh - Strong Wind Blowing Some rather strong-smelling Fish causes a group of beachgoers to be blown-away by the asault of the pungent aroma encountered!

A Bear-faced steal - Wagon raided in the USA by a brown bear (another on the way...) - it is unclear what was contained within the barrels which piqued their excitement... Date: 1905

Pink Flowers
A group portrait painting of two young women stood closely together, one of whom, wearing white, is smelling some pink flowers which she holds in her hand. Date: circa 1922

The Wasp Sting
Reproduction of a painting by Margaret Mower White. Date: circa 1930

HMS Pinafore, Josephine Corcoran and Sir Joseph Porter
HMS Pinafore. Pretty lady smelling a rose is admired by an older gentlemen who peers at her through a monocle. Sir Joseph Porter was one of the many people who had fallen a victim to the beauty of

Tatler Cover, Spring Fashions Number, 1943
Beautifully illustrated Tatler cover for their Spring Fashions Number, 1954. An elegant woman with a chic hat, delicately sniffs a bunch of spring flowers although, considering shes in a park

The sweetness of spring. A woman dressed in a pink summer dress and sun hat, holds a bunch of freshly picked wild flowers. Date: C. 1920s

CHEMIST AT WORK
A chemist, or perhaps a perfumier at work. Date: 1930s

Lady sniffing some blooms
Lady sniffing some scented red blooms... Date: circa 1930s

Russian Desman - searches environment with its sense of smell after feeding on a fresh-water mussel, typical posture (Desmana moschata)

Mr Gennaro of Gennaros Rendezvous Restaurant
A signed portrait of Mr V Gennaro of Gennaros Rendezvous Restaurant on Dean Street, Soho, London. Gennaros would later become the site for the Groucho Club

Advert for Carbolic smoke ball 1892
Carbolic smoke ball, Hay Fever positively cured and prevented. Testimonials include It acted like magic! It is simply invaluable!. 1892

Weasel in white winter fur - adult (Mustela nivalis). common predator in taiga-forests, Russia

David Wright woman smelling yellow flowers
Elegant woman in a low-cut white dress, smelling yellow flowers in a garden. David Wright (1912 - 1967), was a popular British artist specialising in glamour

Lady and Smelling Salts
A lady faints and is revived with smelling salts

Susi - sniffing flowers. 1950s

Two women with smelling salts. 19th century

Lady smelling flowers
Early colour photograph of a lady in a wood smelling flowers. circa 1930

Boy and girl with a basket of flowers on a Victorian scrap. circa 1890s

Girl in romantic mood with rose
Girl day-dreaming of love & romance smelling a rose alongside a statue of cupid. Date: circa 1890

Hippy man with flowers at Woburn Park
Hippy man with flowers during the Love-In at Woburn Park, Bedfordshire. Date: August 1967

Smelling out a Wizard
Native african witchdoctor smells out the wizard who is working evil magic on his client Date: 1868

Medieval lady with lilies
A lady of the Middle Ages wearing a form of wimple on her head breathes in the fragrance of a bunch of lilies. Date: 1934

Cartoon, Asphyxiating gases, WW1
Cartoon, Asphyxiating gases, showing a French soldier standing in a hole and holding his nose. He says: They re not dead yet, but they already stink! Date: 1915

Russian Desman - adult - searches environment with its sense of smell - probing air with flexible nose - typical posture (Desmana moschata )

Bobak / Steppe Marmot - fat adult - observes and sniffs surroundings for a potential danger near a burrow (Marmota bobak). common in steppes of Orenburg region - South Russia - morning - July

Palawan Monitor Lizard - searches for food along a public path with its tongue outstretched (the tongue has a highly developed olfactory sense) (Varanus marmoratus)

Water shrew, adult, inquisitively sniffs air (Neomys fodiens ). bank of river Pra, a tributary of river Oka; near Ryasan town, european Russia, Nature Reserve Okskii ; autumn (September)

Russian Desman - pops its nose out of water to search the environment with its sense of smell for danger (desmans rarely come out of water) (Desmana moschata)

Russian Desman - adult on hind legs, searches environment with its sense of smell (Desmana moschata). Okskii Biospheric Nature Reserve; river Oka valley, Central Russia

Russian Desman - female, view from back (note the flat tail) (Desmana moschata). Okskii Biospheric Nature Reserve; river Oka valley, Central Russia

Russian Desman - female searches environment with its sense of smell, typical posture (Desmana moschata). Okskii Biospheric Nature Reserve; river Oka valley, Central Russia

Russian Desman - adult female - searches environment with its sense of smell after feeding on a fresh-water mussel, typical posture (Desmana moschata)

Siberian Lemming - adult sniffs air prior to crossing a puddle (Lemmings can swim). (Lemmus sibiricus ). tundra near Dikson, Russian Arctic. Summer, August

Dutch boy scouts training their sense of smell
Dutch boy scouts wearing blindfolds, training their sense of smell

Art Nouveau Girl smelling the scent of a red flower
An Austrian art nouveau postcard (potentially by Raphael Kirchner?) of some style and grace, depicting a pretty girl smelling the scent of a small red flower. Date: circa 1900

Dubarry perfumes advertisement
Lovely illustration for Dubarry flower perfumes, exquisite examples of the perfumers art, featuring an illustration of a lady in a garden smelling roses. Date: 1918

Smelling fragrance
An elegant lady brings her nostrils close to a scent bottle proffered no doubt by a persuasive sales assistant at a beauty counter. Date: 1955

An illustration of a woman in a summer hat and dress looking at some Geraniums. By W. F. Briggs

A middle eastern princess smelling roses in a garden
Poster of a middle eastern princess smelling roses in a garden

The progression of romance in five senses - French Style - from initial sighting to the bedroom in five simple steps! Seeing - Hearing - Smelling - Touching and... Tasting! Date: circa 1910s

Little girl smelling a rose
A young girl wearing a pretty dress and blue bow in hair, receives a box full of red roses from her sweetheart on Valentines Day. c. 1925

Girl Sniffing a Rose
A little girl smelling a rose. Date: early 1930s

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