Thorn Collection (page 2)

Pink roses in a shoe on a birthday card
Pink roses and rosebuds in a red satin shoe on a birthday card. circa 1890s

Yellow rose on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Pink and yellow flowers on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Fruit and flowers on a Christmas card
Fruit, leaves and flowers on a Christmas card, with a red tassel. Date: circa 1890s

Cherub playing pipe on a floral greetings card
Cherub playing a pipe on a floral greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

White flowers, thorns and a cross on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Pink roses on a circular Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Boy and girl with flowers on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

White Christmas roses on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Pink roses on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Bee and pink rose on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Bird on a greetings card with an ornate gold border. Date: circa 1890s

German leaf and flower design with white roses, looking like a symmetrically laid out garden viewed from above. Date: circa 1910s

German place card design by R Beauclair, showing two Edwardian ladies in a floral setting. Date: circa 1910s

Cockerel in blackberry brambles
A cockerel in blackberry brambles. Date: circa 1920s

Fossils of extinct Cidarites, Spalangus, Nudeolitus species, and Megalosaurus and Gyrodus teeth.. Handcolored lithograph from Dr. F.A

Pink flowered Rosa centifolia, leaves, thorny stems.. Handcolored illustration by E.D. Smith engraved by Watts from Charles McIntoshs Flora and Pomona 1829

Magnificent riflebird, Ptiloris magnificus, and thorn-tailed rayadito, Aphrastura spinicauda.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science

Corolla examples: deadly nightshade, thorn apple, periwinkle and wallflower.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtiss Lectures

Splint spike-thorn, Gloveria integrifolia, native to South Africa.. Handcolored stipple copperplate engraving by Barrois from a botanical illustration by Pancrace Bessa from Mordant de Launays

Glastonbury Thorn, Glastonbury, Somerset
The Glastonbury Thorn, a legendary tree at Glastonbury, Somerset. A flowering hawthorn, it is associated with Joseph of Arimathea and the arrival of Christianity in Britain

Acacia Ants - Whistling Thorn and Stinging Ants, on Acacia Gall Plant (Acacia drepanolobiun)

Vera Poliakoff by Madame Yevonde
Vera Poliakoff (wife of Basil Burton) by Madame Yevonde. Seen here in the role of Mary Norton, Lady-in-Waiting, in Clifford Baxs play, The Rose Without a Thorn, taking place at the Duchess Theatre

Cartoon, Russias Thorn in the Flesh, showing a scene in a typical Warsaw cafe on receipt of war news. Date: August 1914

S A Bill Thorn, left, and Roy Chadwick
S.A. Bill Thorn, left, and Roy Chadwick possibly alongside Avro Tudor 2, G-AGSU. Both were later killed in this aircraft

The crew during the flight test of an Avro Lancaster. From left: Donald Wade, observer; H. Barnes, flight engineer; Bill Thorn, pilot, S. Gleave, second pilot and Roy Chadwick, chief designer

Design for Textile or Wallpaper in brown and beige. Charoal, Pencil, Crayon and Gouache on detail paper. Silver Studio. circa 1900

Sylvia communis, greater whitethroat
Plate 174 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Anthus sp. pipit
Plate 132 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

General concepts of Horticulture Ornament
Plate 52 from Le Regne Vegetal. Atlas, Vol 14. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

ANGELICO, Fra (1387-1455). Thorn-crowned Christ

Copernicus Birthplace
The birthplace of Copernicus at Thorn, Poland, is already a tourist destination in 1807, when Napoleon signs the Visitors Book. Date: 1473

Lear / Nonsense / Lady / Bush
There was an Old Lady whose folly induced her to sit in a holly, Whereon, by a thorn, her dress being torn, She quickly became melancholy

Androcles Cartoon
Androcles removes the thorn from the lions paw; and is repaid when the lion recognises him in the arena and not only does him no harm, but greets him with delight

Sturgeon / Riverbank C1860
ACIPENSER ATTILUS A sturgeon on a riverbank

Glastonbury Thorn
At Glastonbury Joseph of Arimathea throws himself down to rest & thrusts his hawthorn staff into the ground where it miraculously takes root & becomes the Glastonbury thorn

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

Crataegus Monogyna
COMMON WHITE-THORN

Androcles & the Lion
The lion set to devour Androcles in the Roman arena recognises him as the man who rid him of a painful thorn in his paw, and does not harm him

Relics / Thorn Crown
Louis IX, king of France, brings back Jesus crown of thorns from the Holy Land, and bears it in procession to Notre Dame, Paris

Five shrikes perched on a bush -- lanius rufus (1, 2 & 3) and lanius collurio (4 & 5). The shrike is also known as a butcher bird, because it skewers the insects

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