Turnips 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

Trades in Norfolk, Regency England. Barley, turnips and game. Farm laborers on a straw bail after a barley harvest 34, sheep eating turnips 35, and hunter poaching for game rabbits 36

Trades in Regency England. Brick making, butter churning and rabbit warren. Brickmaker with bricks, hod, kiln and wheelbarrow in Woolpit 31, woman churning butter in an urn in Bury dairy 32

Turnips, Brassica rapa. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

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

German Beerhouse Waitress, carrying a mass (!) of beer tankards. The card is flanked by turnips, sausages and pretzels to complete the Germanic flavour.... Date: circa 1937

Joseph Cradock - 2
JOSEPH CRADOCK Writer of plays, travel notes (he climbed Snowdon !) and a novel against gambling; in his later years he lived on turnips and roasted apples. Date: 1742 - 1826

Joseph Cradock - 1
JOSEPH CRADOCK Writer of plays, travel notes (he climbed Snowdon !) and a novel against gambling; in his later years he lived on turnips and roasted apples. Date: 1742 - 1826

Mixed Vegetables 20C
An assortment of vegetables: a cauliflower, carrots, turnips, and broccoli. Date: early 20th century?

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

A mes bons naves naves. The Merchant of turnips. Belongs to the genre le Cris de Paris that illustrates street vendors of Paris. Woodcut, ca 1500. Early Modern Era. Engraving. FRANCE

European Bisons - graze and being feed with turnips at the feeding spot in the forest - the herd of bisons comes at the same time to be supplementary fed every day (Bison bonasus L.)

Reconstruction in the Outer Hebrides by Heath Robinson, WW1
Settling a Scottish soldier on the land. A lone Scottish soldier is left alone on a tiny island with a barrel of turnip seed at the end of First World War. Date: 1919

Vegetable seller (cabbages)
Cabbages O! Turnips!. Street vegetable seller. From Old London Cries (1885) Date: 1885

Old Vegetable seller driving his donkey cart
An elderly Bermudian Vegetable seller driving his donkey cart, laden with fresh produce, including beetroot and turnips. Date: circa 1910s

Little girl standing at a garden gate
A little girl standing at a garden gate, rather disappointed that her day hasn t been more exciting. first published 1879

Winter Vegetables
Mixed winter vegetables : Potatoes, turnips and parsnips. Date: 1980

Covent Garden Market Trader
A Covent Garden Market Trader unloads his wooden crates of fruit and vegetables

Hoeing Turnips 1930S
Autumn hoeing of young turnips on a Suffolk farm, using a horse-drawn plough

Turnips & Carrots Sold
A woman sells turnips and carrots carried in panniers strapped to a donkey

Racial / France / Peasant
Labouring peasant returning from the fields with a basket of turnips

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