Stalk Collection

Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean. English folk or fairy tale that appeared in this form in 1734, and later became Jack and the Beanstalk. Date: Late 18th Century

Jack Climbing Stalk
Jack, having grown the beanstalk from the magic seed given him by a fairy, uses it to enable him to reach the home of the Giant, whom he plans to kill

Common Glow-worm - female - glowing on a cut grass stalk to attract males - late in the dusk - midsummer - June (Lampyris noctulica ). meadow in Ural Mountains - Tchelyabinsk region - Russia

A charring Stalk, Sweden

A Charring Stalk, Sweden - early 1900s

Poster for Thorne's Whisky - The Spirit of the Barley'. Date: 1903

Japanese flower arrangement with leaves and flowers, vase and tray. Handcoloured woodblock engraving hanga from a book of the Shinshintei school of Ikebana, 1835

Guide to preparing flowers for Japanese flower arranging, ikebana. Handcoloured woodblock engraving hanga from a book of the Shinshintei school of Ikebana, 1835

Tiger flower, Tigridia flammea (Flame-coloured stiff stalk, Rigidella flammea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by G. Barclay after Miss Sarah Drake from John Lindley

Scaber stalk mushrooms
Rough-stemmed bolete, Boletus scaber and red-capped scaber stalk, Leccinum aurantiacum (Boletus aurantiacus). Chromolithograph by Lassus after an illustration by A

Birch bolete, Leccinum scabrum (Boletus scaber). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by William Hamilton Gibson from his book Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms, Harper, New York, 1895

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

Common Glow-worm - female - climbed on top of a cut grass stalk in the dusk - attracts males by glowing and waving abdomen from side-to-side - late in the dusk - midsummer - June (Lampyris noctulica)

Common Glow-worm - female - attracts males by glowing - holds to top of a cut grass stalk - dusk - midsummer - June (Lampyris noctulica ). meadow in Ural Mountains - Tchelyabinsk region - Russia

Handmade New Year card in the shape of nuts, which opens to reveal a seasonal greeting. Date: circa 1890s

Handmade Christmas card in the shape of nuts, which opens to reveal a seasonal greeting. Date: circa 1890s

Boys of the Mussoorie Scout Troop, India
Boys of the Mussoorie Scout Troop, Uttarakhand, India, doing some stalking

Red-capped scaber stalk, Leccinum aurantiacum, edible.. Chromolithograph by C. Krause from Fritz Leubas Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms, Neuchatel, Switzerland, 1890

Life is but a bowl of cherries (which also make splendid earrings, complete with over-ear attachment). Date: circa 1940s

Greetings card in the shape of an apple. Date: circa 1890s

A Century Plant - Kew Gardens (Agave Atrovirens from Mexico). Note the adjustable railings on wheels. Date: circa 1910s

Deerstalking above Loch Ettive, Argyllshire
Deerstalking in the forest of the Black Mount, Argyllshire: above Loch Ettive - a bad miss after a long stalk. Date: 1891

Canna indica, Indian shot
Plate 919 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Phrymium sp
Plate 915 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Dizgocrinus mon, fossil crinoid
This fossil crinoid or sea-lily originates from the limestones of Keokuk, Lowa, USA

Achias rothschildi
Photograph of Achias rothschildi

Bluebell
A bluebell from the Wildlife Garden at the Natural History Museum, London

Helianthus tubaeformis, southern sunflower
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Jardines House on Inya Lake - Rangoon - Beautifully manicured garden down to the Lake. Traveller palm - fan shaped, each leaf stalk in joining the main stem forms a gourd-like reservoir of water for

Yellow blossom with bud on a stalk above leaves. Date between 1830 and 1850

Blue blossoms on stalk with leaves. Drawing shows stalk with blue blossoms and leaves of a plant that looks similar to the Common Asian Selfheal (Prunella vulgaris asiatica)

Blue flower blossom and bud at the end of a stalk. Date between 1830 and 1850

Pink flower blossoms on low stalk and two on a tall stalk. Date between 1830 and 1850

Woodrow and the bean-stalk. Illustration shows a man labeled Wilson with an axe labeled Tariff Revision has chopped through vines labeled Excessive Protection causing a giant labeled Monopoly to fall

Stationery illustrated with a stalk of wheat wrapped in a banner marked Quo non ascendamus 1879 and a balloon flying above clouds and birds. Date 1879

Early Stone Age Man hunting
An early Stone Age Man stalks a wild sow and her young, which has also attracted the attention of a lioness. Date: Circa 200, 000 BC

Hunters stalking herd of elephants, Sri Lanka
Stalking a Herd -- hunters spying on a herd of elephants in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). 1854

Shooting Partridge (Harv
PARTRIDGE - Two men wait while their game dogs stalk some partridge for them to shoot. Date: circa 1840

The Weeks Woggles - Big Game Hunting
Woggles, the Sealyham Terrier owned by animal artist, Cecil Aldin pictured here stalking an innocent looking soft toy

Solanum Lycopersicum (Tomato) Sunrise, a red fruit (often regarded as a vegetable) of the Solanaceae family, seen here growing and ripening on the stalk

Brassica Oleracea Gemmifera (Brussels Sprouts), a vegetable of the Brassicaceae family, seen here still attached to the stalk

Lilium Krameri (Lilium Japonicum), a species of Lily of the Liliaceae family, with pale pink flowers

Lion stalking a herd of Zebra
A Lion stalking a herd of Zebra. Oil painting by Raymond Sheppard

GREENGAGE / 1871
A greengage shown still on the stalk with leaves

Catlin / Sioux as Wolves
Sioux stalk buffalo disguised as wolves by wearing their skins on their backs

Crime / Robbery / Mugging
A London rough & his accomplice stalk a victim

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