Thorns Collection (page 2)

Dove and pink flowers on a Christmas card
Dove with an envelope in its beak and a branch of pink flowers on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Pink and red flowers on a Christmas card, with seasonal verse. Date: circa 1890s

Birthday card with birds and rosebud on a fan
Birthday card with birds and red rosebud on a fan. Date: circa 1890s

Fairies with flower and insect on a Christmas card
Two fairies with a pink flower and an insect on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Goblins with a turkey on a Christmas card
Goblins dragging a live turkey along with ropes on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Pale orange roses on a fabric greetings card with silky fringe. Date: circa 1890s

Bright pink roses on a fabric greetings card with silky white fringe and tassels. Date: circa 1890s

We Gladstone / Thorny Wood
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE Liberal MP and Prime Minister making his way through a thorny wood, in an attempt to catch the Irish Vote Date: 1809 - 1898

Jesus (Correggio)
JESUS OF NAZARETH crowned with thorns Date: 6 BC - 30 AD

Relic Crown of Thorns
Louis IX, king of France, returns to France bringing with him the actual crown of thorns which was placed on the head of Jesus when he was mocked by Pilates soldiers Date: 1254

Germany, Sleeping Beauty
Germany depicted as the Sleeping Beauty imprisoned by thorns - but there is no Prince Charming to come to her rescue ! Date: 1923

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

Dog with horseshoe and rose on a Good Luck card
Dog with a horseshoe and a pink rose on a Good Luck card. 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

Clawson Thorns and Belvoir Hunt, Leicestershire
Clawson Thorns, a covert popular with the Belvoir Hunt, Leicestershire Date: 1936

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

Eglantine rose flower fairy, Rosa eglantera.. Handcolored steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from Les Fleurs Animees, Flower Fairies, Paris

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

Paris, France - La Sainte Chapelle, The Crypt. Date: 19th century

Paris, France - Notre-Dame. Date: 19th century

Relics of the thorns from the Crown of Thorns. From: Memoire sur les instruments de la passion de N.-S. J.-C. Date: 1870

Election propaganda postcard for the Liberal Party, featuring a quote from The Chancellor of the Exchequer (and future Prime Minister) David Lloyd George on 30th July 1909

Art Nouveau Girl
An Austrian art nouveau postcard (potentially by Raphael Kirchner?) of some style and grace, depicting a pretty auburn-haired girl holding a wild bouquet of flowers

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

VAN DYCK, Sir Anthony (1599-1641). The Crowning with Thorns. 1618. Van Dyck offered this as a gift to Rubens. Variation of the painting in the Museum of Berlin, inspired in a Ecce-Homo by Titian

SEDANO, Alonso de (145(1st century-1530). Christ Crowned with Thorns. SPAIN. Burgos. Cathedral of St. Mary. Gothic art. Oil on wood

FRUEAUF, Rueland, called the Elder (1445-1507). Christ with the Crown of Thorns. Ecce homo. Austrian school

Euphorbia splendens. Manuscript document: Sketches of plants made at the Mauritius to accompany the report of May 1829 Date: 1829

Patriotic Italian postcard featuring an athletic barely-clad man before a flaming altar and a crown of thorns, definitely stressing the importance of some form of personal sacrifice being beneficial

Alexander Cruden
ALEXANDER CRUDEN Churchman, compiler of the classic Bible Concordance : ornamented with an open Bible, crown of thorns, hammer and nails etc. Date: 1701 - 1770

Winter scene with birds and snow
A winter scene in the countryside, with three birds flying over a snow-covered landscape

South Africa Tugela
Farm in the Tugela Thorns. Date: circa 1870

Jesus Carrying Cross
A statue of Jesus Christ carrying the cross inside the cathedral at Victoria (Rabat) on Gozo, Maltese archipelago

? Berberis Plant
An unspecifed plant. Possibly a species of BERBERIS with yellow flowers and holly like leaves

Cross and Symbols
depicted with a variety of other Christian symbols, including the Crown of Thorns, the nails with which Jesus was fixed to the Cross, the dice used by the soldiers &c

Cross and Rose
and rose with thorns

Marys Premonition
Mary, contemplating her son, suddenly has a premonition of the crown of thorns which one day will be thrust onto his head

Flowers: sept & Oct 1863
Flowers of September & October: CRATAEGUS (Hawthorn, Haw Berries); BELLADONNA (Deadly Nightshade); CONVOLVULUS Greater Bindweed); RUBUS FRUTICOSUS (Blackberries)

Jesus Crown of Thorns
Jesus is crowned by Pilates soldiers with a crown of thorns

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