Sour Collection

Fable / Fox & Grapes
THE FOX AND THE GRAPES The fox spies juicy ripe grapes and tries to reach them but in vain; eventually he gives up, proclaiming the grapes to be probably sour

Cartoon, As Sour as Verjuice. Date: 1827

Foot-shaped comic postcard, mother and five daughters
A mother (the life and sole of the family) and her five little toe daughters - a brilliant Edwardian comic postcard, open to multiple interpretations! Date: 1907

Historical views of Syria. Ruins of the city of Palmyra or Tadmor in the Desert 70, the bazaar in Aleppo 71, and weaver working on a damask loom in Damascus 72

Wild cherry tree, Prunus cerasus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1800

Sour cherry tree, Prunus cerasus (caproniana ranunculiflora). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Phil May cartoon - Tuneless Street band
1904

Market in Beirut (Beyrouth), Lebanon
Arabic Market (Souk) in Beirut (Beyrouth), capital of Lebanon. Date: circa 1910

Strip tease card game - Prudie suit - Sour-puss. A game which features characters involved in performing (and subsequently prosecuting and defending) a striptease

Oil fire at Sour Lake, Beaumont, Texas, USA
Oil fire at Sour Lake, a big oil-producing area of eastern Texas, USA. Date: early 20th century

Suffragette Votes for Women Match Holder
A ceramic figure of an Old Maid suffragette painted in the colours of the W.S.P.U. She wears a Votes for Women sash and a rather sour expression. Below is the caption, A Match for Any Man

WWI - The (German) Fox and the (Allied) Grapes
The Fox and the Grapes - A Hungry Fox, finding that he could not reach some tempting bunches of ripe grapes, declared that they were sour and that he did not want them

Cerasus communis, sour cherry
One of the 162 decorative panels depicting flora that form the ceiling of the Central Hall of the Natural History Museum, London

Chez Fleck restaurant, The King of the Sauerkraut
" The King of the Sauerkraut" Chez Fleck restaurant, 39 Boulevard Du Temple, Paris. 1930s

Belle of Nelson. Old fashion. Home made sour mash. Whiskey. Date c188(3?) October 2

The sour mash express. Date 1877

Kislovodsk - Russia
Kislovodsk, Russia - a spa town. (the name means sour waters ) - founded in 1803 as a military station and boasts many mineral springs around the city of Narzan type. Date: 1910

Cheese Dish
Skyer, a sour white cheese, eaten with milk and sugar, is a very refreshing dish. Date: 1930s

Testing Candidates for the Post of Milk Sourer at a Cream Cheese Factory. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

Sour Grapes
A new method of catching foxes to be introduced in the coming season. Robinson was a regular contributor to the Sketch, the Bystander and other ILN titles during his lifetime

Little Lad / Greenaway
Little lad, little lad, where wast thou born ? Far off in Lancashire, under a thorn, where they sup sour milk from a rams horn

Chinese Meal 1970S
A Chinese meal, the main dish (in the wok) being beef with onions and green peppers. Note also the sweet and sour sauces and the obligatory chopsticks

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