Stinking Collection

Sulphur Well at Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales - a spa town, which grew up following the discovery of waters with amazing healing properties in 1732, by the Rev. Theophilus Evans

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 11
Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A view of some of the makeshift buildings that have grown among the rubbish tips. This is where the better off Zabballeen people live circa 1995

A dinner party ruined by the arrival of a stinking game dish
A dinner party ruined by the arrival of a game dish that has gone off. Miseries of the Table. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Chinese elm, Ulmus parvifolia
Chinese elm or lacebark elm, Ulmus parvifolia, Ulmus chinensis, Olmo della China. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Stinking or sticky groundsel, Senecio viscosus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smiths English Botany, London, 1791

Russula mushrooms
Geranium-scented Russula, Russula fellea, and stinking russula, Russula foetens. Chromolithograph by Lassus after an illustration by A

Stinking iris, Iris foetidissima, and greater burdock, Arctium lappa. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Stinking chamomile, Anthemis cotula, and wild lettuce, Lactuca maior. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Chamomile, Matricaria chamomilla, and stinking chamomile, Anthemis cotula. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Stinking chamomile, Anthemis cotula. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887

Stinking hellebore, Helleborus foetidus, Ellebore fetide. Handcoloured steel engraving by Alphonse-Leon Noel after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr

Black henbane and Peruvian primrose-willow
Black henbane, Hyoscyamus niger 1, and Peruvian primrose-willow, Ludwigia peruviana 2. Jusquiame, Jussiee. Handcoloured steel engraving by August Dumenil after an illustration by A

Stinking iris, Iris foetidissima. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London

Common hoptree, Ptelea trifoliata
Common hoptree, stinking ash or wafer ash, Ptelea trifoliata. Handcoloured stipple engraving by Mixelle l aine after an illustration by Pierre-Joseph Redoute from Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceaus

Wake robin or stinking benjamin, Trillium erectum (rhomboidal trillium, Trillium rhomboideum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S

Henbane, Hyoscyamus niger. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Black henbane or stinking nightshade, Hyoscyamus niger. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Asafoetida, Ferula assa-foetida. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Curtis British Entomology Plate 487
Lepidoptera: Cochleophasia tessellea = Taleporia tessellea (Large Birch Bright) [Plant: Ballota nigra (Black or Stinking Horehound)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 414
Coleoptera: Copris lunaris (Lunar-headed Dung-beetle) [Plant: Chenopodium vulvaria (Chenopodium olidum, Stinking Goosefoot)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 306
Coleoptera: Ips 4-punctata = Glischrochilus quadripunctatus (4 Orange-spotted Ips) [Plant: Senecio viscosus (Stinking Groundsel)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 131
Coleoptera: Dendrophilus sheppardi = Dendrophilus pygmaeus (Sheppardian Hister) [Plant: Iris foetidissima (flower; Stinking Flag)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 26
Diptera: Atherix ibis (Dissimilar Snipe Fly) [Plant: Anthemis cotula (Stinking Chamomile)] Date: 1824-39

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 10
Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A man catches a pig. It will be eaten. There is little time for religious niceties among the poverty and filth of the rubbish tip

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 8
Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A cart pulled by two donkeys stops in the rubbish-strewn streets Date: circa 1995

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 9
Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A man catches a pig by the leg. It will be eaten. There is little time for religious niceties among the poverty and filth of the rubbish tip

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 6
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A small girl child dodges past a donkey cart in the rubbish-strewn streets Date: circa 1995

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 7
Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A cart pulled by three small donkeys carries rubbish and three men from the tip Date: circa 1995

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 5
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. Three young girls sift though the smoking rubbish Date: circa 1995

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 2
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A femae child wearing what might once have been a pretty pink dress. It is now ragged and filthy Date: circa 1995

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 4
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A small boy carries a tin can into which he will put small metal items he finds among the rubbish Date: circa 1995

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 3
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A small boy scrabbles in the rubbish with his bare hands. More children work behind him Date: circa 1995

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 1
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A ragged child finds a piece of bread among the rubbish and offers it to her sister, who clings to her brother Date: circa 1995

Filthy streets, Mokattam, Cairo
The filthy street of Mokattam in the middle of the rubbish tips of Cairo, Egypt Date: circa 1995

Corolla of wolfs bane Eranthis hyemalis and stinking hellebore Helleborus foetida.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtiss Lectures

Henbane or stinking nightshade, Hyoscyamus niger.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by French botanist Jean Baptiste Francois Pierre Bulliard from Herbier de la France, Paris, 1780

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

Stinking Mayweed
The delightfully named Stinking Mayweed, (Anthemis Cotula), a variety of camomile field daisy. Date: 1930s

Primula Berninae (Berninae Primrose), a flowering perennial of the Primulaceae family with purple flowers, a cross between the Primula Hirsuta (Stinking Primrose)

Billingsgate Brutes
A genre scene, seemingly charming. In reality a young woman at a doorway is intimidated by two stout Billingsgate fishwives into buying their stinking fish

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