Turnip Collection

Human vegetable figure. circa 1825

Curius Dentatus refusing bribes from Samnites
Manius Curius Dentatus, Roman consul and plebeian hero, though living on turnips, refuses bribes from the Samnites. He is noted for ending the Samnite War

Messina - Italy - A Donkey carrying turnips
The quayside at Messina - Italy - A Donkey carrying turnips in side pannier bags Date: circa 1910s

Comic postcard, Vegetable love, The Allotment Love Letter Date: 20th century

The Turnip Field
An oil painting of an old farmer tending to a turnip field, painted with impasto brush strokes. Date: circa 1921

Advert, B Samuelson, Britannia Iron Works, Banbury - Turnip Cutters, Chaff Cutters and Corn Bruising Mills Date: 1856

Advert for Bovril with vegetables, WW2
Advert for Bovril - puts a smile into vegetables, WW2 Date: 1943

Postcard, Women and children first, WW1 Date: 1914-1918

Comic postcard, Turnip, beans and rhubarb Date: 20th century

Heart and dart moth, turnip moth and silver cloud
Heart and dart moth, Agrotis exclamationis 1, 2, turnip moth, Agrotis segetum 3, 4, and silver cloud, Egira conspicillaris 5. Phalaena exclamationis, caliginosa, fuscosa, melaleuca

Pale prominent, heart and club, and dark sword-grass
Pale prominent, Pterostoma palpina, heart and club, Agrotis clavis, and dark sword-grass, Agrotis ipsilon. Phalaena palpina, clavis, spinula

Three-humped prominent, olive moth and turnip moth
Three-humped prominent, Notodonta tritophus, olive moth, Prays oleae, and turnip moth, Agrotis segetum. Phalaena tritophus, oleagina, segetum

Muslin footman and oak eggar moths
Muslin footman, Nudaria mundana, male 1, female 2, and oak eggar moth, Lasiocampa quercifolia, female 3, larva, 4, 5, pupa 6, chrysalis 7

Spiked rampion, Phyteuma spicatum, skirret, Sium sisarum, and turnip, Brassica rapa. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt

Edible tubers, Tubercules alimentaires. Purple woodsorrel, Oxalis purpurea, Jerusalem artichoke, Helianthus tuberosus, papalisa or olluco, Ullucus tuberosus, yamaimo or mountain yam

St. Anthonys turnip or bulbous buttercup, Ranunculus bulbosus. Handcoloured lithograph by Henry Sowerby after an illustration by A.E. from Edward Hamiltons Flora Homeopathica, Bailliere, London, 1852

Christmas and New Year card in the shape of a basket, open to reveal a cryptic message inside in the form of a pictogram. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Curtis British Entomology Plate 617
Hymenoptera: Athalia spinarum = Athalia rosae (Turnep Saw-fly) [Plant: Brassica rapa (Turnip)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 336
Lepidoptera: Arcturus sparshalli = Trichioceras sparshalli (Arctiidae: Long-tailed Bombyx). Not British ? specimen from Mr. Sparshall [Plant: Brassica rapa ssp

Advert for W &s Summerscales & Sons household machines 1888 Advert for W & S
Double page spread of a selection of Victorian free-standing machines for household use, available in W &s Summerscales & Sons catalogue, including The Colonial mangle, chain washer and Gardner

VEGETARIAN DISH
A vegetarian dish, including brussel sprouts, creamed potatoes, diced turnip and other unidentified vegetables. Date: 1930s

Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Medieval handbook of health. Man gathering turnips. Woman cleaning turnips in a river. Miniature. Fol. 52 r

Vintage radish seed packet
A radish seed packet from the Card Seed Company, New York. Date: c. 1910

Governors House, Reykjavik
Governors House (left side) of Reykjavik. Magn� ephensen, governor, commissioned the building of the house as a place to live after he retired. Date: circa 1910

Rabbits with carrots on a Christmas card
Three adult rabbits and three baby rabbits with carrots on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Illustration, The Turnip -- So the rich brother had to put his brothers Turnip into a cart and have it taken home. Date: 1909

Turnip, cabbage and hares ear mustard.. Handcolored botanical copperplate engraving from Joshua Hamiltons Culpepers English Family Physician; or Medical Herbal Enlarged

Turnip and rocket cabbage or dog mustard.. Handcolored botanical copperplate engraving from Joshua Hamiltons Culpepers English Family Physician; or Medical Herbal Enlarged

Root vegetables, carrot Daucus carota and turnip Brassica rapa.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtiss Lectures on Botany

The Tenor hits a high note and is met by a special bouquet
An Operatic Tenor hits a high note and is met by a special bouquet, comprising of eggs, carrots, a turnip and a dead cat! " He who pitches too high, won t get through his song"

The Tenor hits a high note and a special bouquet awaits
The Tenors Top Note. An Operatic Tenor hits a high note and is about to meet a special bouquet, comprising of rotten eggs, a carrot and a turnip !! Date: circa 1910s

Turnip harvest
Harvested turnips and a little girl, Outside Landskrona, Sweden 1910. Date: 1910

Battle Re-Enactment
Members of the Southern Skirmish Association charge across the turnip fields of Kent, firing antique muskets and wearing home-made uniforms. Date: 1960s

Fairy Tale / The Turnip
A man riding on a horse waves to another man who for reasons best known to himself is suspended in a sack from a tree with his head sticking out

Native Indian Myth / 1914
Feather-woman gazes down from Sky Country, where she is trapped for digging up the sacred turnip & sees the camp of the Blackfeet where she had once lived

Vegetables / Radishes
Leonards White Tipped Scarlet Turnip Radish, the best stock of White Tipped Radish on the market as developed by the Leonard Seed Company of Chicago

Veg as Human 1 1900
The Vegetable Wedding No.1: the musicians and the mayor

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