Vine Collection (page 5)

Nephenthes sp. pitcher plant
A carnivorous plant attracting insects with sweet nectar on the top of the pitcher. The surface is slippery and the insects fall in. Unable to climb out, the prey is digested by enzymes

Protonotaria citrea, prothonotary warbler
Plate 3 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved by W.H. Lizars, Edinburgh

Vitis sp. black grape
Plate 47 from Pomona Britannica 1812, by George Brookshaw (1751-1823). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. Illustration entitled Raisin de Calmes

Vitis sp. grape (Black Prince Grape)
Plate 45 from Pomona Londinensis (1818) by William Hooker. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Vitis sp. vine grapes
Plate 74 from The Chief Natural Orders of Plants (1849). Illustrated and described by Elizabeth Twining (1805-1889)

Vitis sp. grape (The Raisin de Carmes)
Plate 10 from Pomona Londinensis (1818) by William Hooker. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Ampelocissus arachnoidea
Finished watercolour by James Miller from an original outline drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox

Mame - green bean or pea plant showing vine, leaves, pods, and blossoms. Date 1878?

Mame - pea or bean plant showing vine, leaves, pods, and blossoms. Date 1878?

Vine with blossoms. Date 18--

Squash vine with blossom, squash, and rainbow, with publisher seal in lower right. Date 18--

Grand result Buying guns, ammunition, and fishing tackle from Paul Meyers, 625 South Second St. and 212 Vine St. Philadelphia, Pa

Grapes on a vine. Date between 1800 and 1870

Side view of a monk, full-length portrait, facing left, wear
A man and a woman, seen from behind, are looking to where the man is pointing with his left arm, he holds a closed parasol in his right hand; the woman has her hands on her face

Small red blossoms on a vine. Date between 1830 and 1850

Revue of reviews a musical satire of today Hollywood Playhouse, Vine near Hollywood Blvd. : Federal Theatre Project div. of WPA

Lehmanns Wine advertisement
An advertisement for Lehmanns non-alcoholic wine. Two figures clad in Classical Greek or Roman attire carry a vine branch between them

Wisteria vine with leaves and blossoms. Date 187-

Australia - Adelaide - Auldana Vineyards - A team of eight oxen pull a three-ton load uphill. Date: 1908

Picking grapes - Romania
Picking and crushing (by hand) grapes from a vine in Romania. Date: 1914

California Winter Home and Vine-Covered Pergola, USA Date: circa 1908

The Great Vine, Hampton Court Palace - according to the caption on this postacrd, the vine generally has 2-3000 bunches of grapes upon it and is 110 feet long! Date: 1908

Vine Growers Queen
Mademoiselle Emile Langlor, the Queen of the Charente vine growing district, in her striking, enormous, lace hat! Date: 1930s

1920s jewellery design
1920s costume jewellery design, taking its inspiration from different subjects such as nature and religion. 1924

Stained glass window with vines circa 2008

Stem of the Great Vine - Hampton Court Palace. Date: circa 1920s

VIIIme Exposition Suisse D Agriculture (2 / 3)
Promotional postcard for the VIIIme Exposition Suisse D Agriculture (8th Swiss Agricultural Exhibition) at Lausanne, Switzerland (2/3) Date: 1910

Vine Personified
The vine personified Date: 1847

Picking grapes
Young sicilian lady picking grapes ready to make into wine

Hyeres, France - Countrywoman with watering can
Hyeres, Provence, France - Countrywoman with watering can about to water her plants. She stands next to an impressive grapevine

Joseph Vine - Cricketer - Bowling
Joseph Vine (1875-1946). Wisden joint cricketer of the year in 1906. Played for England in 1911/12

Constantinople - The Kariye Camii Mosque, set within a border of vine leaves

Eating Grapes
A young girl lies in a garden eating plump grapes from a vine

JOHN XV: 1, 2 I am the true vine and my father is the husbandman... Text decorated with grape vine and grapes & fruiting and flowering passion flower vine

Fable / Elm and Vine
The vine needs the elm tree to support it; the elm needs the vines grapes to enhance it

The Stag and the Vine
THE STAG AND THE VINE A stag is hidden from the hunters and their dogs by a thick vine, but is then tempted to eat the grapes and the rustling gives him away

Harvesting Grapes
Men cutting grapes from a fine Royal vine in a hothouse at Hampton Court, England. Date: 1930s

The Old Vine Tavern which literally stood in the road at the junction of Mile End Road and Cambridge Heath Road, east London, was sadly demolished in the early 1900s

Owen Jones Flowers 95
Various leaves, full-sized, traced from nature: Vine, Holly, Oak, Turkey Oak, and Laburnum

Tarantella / Italy
A couple dance the Tarantella accompanied by a lute and tambourines underneath a shady roof of vines

Alphabet / V for Vine
V for the vine, growing high on the wall...... Children picking grapes on an English farm. Date: 1867

Owen Jones Flowers 92
Full-sized vine leaves, traced from nature

Twisting Vine, Medoc
Women workers twisting the vines in the Medoc (Bordeaux) region

Victoria / Mile End / 1887
This picturesque little pub was built in the early 1700s. Queen Victoria drove past it on her way to opening the central hall of the Peoples Palace in 14 May 1887 (1 of 2)

Portugese Wine Pruners
Portuguese vine pruners in traditional straw coats and hats, which throw off the rain like a thatched roof, Douro Valley, Portugal

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