Wine Collection (page 17)

Town mice and country mice
Two couples eating at a restaurant at separate tables, one couple looking smug dressed up in the latest attire with their wine and bowl of fruit

Engraving designs on glass
Engraving initials onto glass goblets using an engraving machine. Date: circa 19th century

Prince of the Carnival - Cologne, Germany
Prince of the Carnival - The Rhine Wine Feast held in Cologne, Germany - February 1939. Date: 1939

A couple in the Black Forest
A couple strolling along hand-in-hand in the Black Forest, Germany. The lady is carrying bottle of red wine, likely to be enjoyed in some shady spot away from prying eyes.... Date: circa 1910s

Dirty Dicks Bar in London
The World Renowned Wine House, Vaults Bar at Dirty Dicks in Bishopsgate, London, established in 1745 c. 1920

1960s fashion, courtship wearing John Cavanagh suit
A girl wearing a John Cavanagh suit of soft, feather-weight tweed by Otterburn Mills in a mixture of pale grey and white. The jacket is double-breasted with a rolled collar set away from the neck

Daily Mail Home Exhibition - Australian Wines
Daily Mail Home Exhibition - An exhibit promoting the wines of Australia Date: circa 1930s

Wine bar in Femina, Berlin
A sketch of the Wine bar in Femina, a fashionable ballroom / cabaret in Berlin Date: 1920s

The Toast by W. R. S. Stott
An early 19th century scene showing four jovial gentlemen raising a toast in front of a blazing fire. Date: 1936

Chile - Agricultural Labourers Camp
The customs of the agricultural labourers in Chile - a temporary camp where the men are spit-roasting meat and drinking Chilean wine. Date: circa 1910

Travelling wine seller in his cart
Travelling wine seller/delivery operative in his small covered cart - Rome, Italy Date: circa 1910

Industry / Australia
A map of south-eastern Australia showing the products of different districts Date: 1908

Alsace Vineyard Festival
A joyous procession moves through the streets of Alsace during the fete de vendanges (or vineyard festival). Date: 1922

Mother Hubbard / On Head
She went to the tavern For white wine and red And when she came back The dog stood on his head Date: 1890s

Vine Personified
The vine personified Date: 1847

Fetching Wine
Fetching wine from the cellar. Date: early 12th century

Wine Glass and Woman
Wine, woman and rosebud. Date: circa 1908

Advert / Jelly / Wincarnis
Wincarnis Wine Jelly Date: 1934

Gent Wine Tasting
A distinguished man wine tasting. Date: 1950s

Wine Waiter Pours Red
The wine waiter pours out the red wine Date: 1878

Waiter Uncorking Bottle
A waiter with neatly combed hair and sideburns trying to pull a cork out of a bottle of wine Date: 19th century

Pierrot / Debureau / Wine
Debureau as Pierrot, enjoying a glass of wine circa 1840

Xmas Dinner 1975
A traditional Christmas meal with the mother and father and two young boys in tank tops, turkey, wine and all the trimmings. Date: 1975

Champagne and Dance 20C
Has the gentleman absorbed too much of the champagne to be capable of joining the lady in a dance ? Date: early 20th century

Drinking Wine
A connoisseur holds up his wineglass to the light Date: 1878

WINE
A connoisseur examines a bottle Date: 1878

Food and Drink / Wine
A wine waiter pours out wine in a restaurant 1878

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

Rioter, Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
Canterbury Tales: The Pardoners Tale. Carrying the bag of gold he has just collected from under the tree, along with the wine he has poisoned

Double page spread in a diary for 14-19 May
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 14-19 May. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

Man holding two bunches of white grapes
A man in a vineyard, holding two large bunches of white grapes which he has just picked

Holidays in Italy, Thomas Cook and Dean & Dawson
Cover illustration for Holidays in Italy, with Thomas Cook & Son and Dean & Dawson Ltd, showing a wine bottle, and a dish of spaghetti with a hand twirling some of the spaghetti around a fork

Best Through Cooks, rail and steamer services
Poster or handbill design for Best Through Cooks, travel by British Railways rail and steamer services, showing a Mediterranean beach scene with boats, two wine glasses and a bottle, a green shutter

Wagon laden with fiasco Chianti bottles
Unloading bottles of Chianti - Tuscany, Italy. Chianti was (for many many years) historically associated with these squat bottles enclosed in a straw basket (called a fiasco )

Men from Porto da Cruz, in Funchal, Madeira
A group of men belonging to a Porto da Cruz folklore group, in Funchal, the capital city of Madeira. One of the men pours wine from a wineskin and hands a glass to his colleague

Good Luck postcard
A Czechoslovakian Good Luck postcard, featuring a small girl sat in a barrel holding a bottle of sparkling wine (and spilling a glass of the same), surrounded by large four-leafed clovers

Winemaking equipment, Camara de Lobos, Madeira, Portugal
An antique object used in the making of wine, in the showroom of Henriques & Henriques SA, Camara de Lobos, near Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

Old winepress, Camara de Lobos, Madeira, Portugal
An old winepress on display at the firm of Henriques & Henriques SA, Camara de Lobos, near Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

Vienna courtyard - Anschluss
A Heurigen (local wine establishment) in Grinzing, Vienna

Algiers - Grape Pressing by monks
Grape Pressing by monks at the Abbaye de Notre Dame de Staoueli - Algiers, Algeria

The port at Oran, Algeria close to the Harbour Mole

A Street vendor of rice wine - Japan
A street vendor serves a female client with rice wine in Kobe, Japan. The man carries the two boxes by means of a pole on his shoulders and cries " Amesake!"

Marseilles, France - The Quay
Marseilles, France. The Quayside with wine barrels lined up ready for export

Customs official tests imported wine
A customs official tests wine from an imported barrel of wine. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Madeira Barrels - Madeira, Portugal
Wine production on the island of Madeira is of utmost importance to the Islands economy. Prince Henry the Navigator probably introduced the first vines to Madeira during initial colonisation of

Bartholomew Fair (1721)
Coloured, semi-circular illustration of Bartholomew Fair (1721), with small text giving the history of the fair, published by J. F. Setchel, London, c1820. HPF/5C/47

In a French bar
A waiter waits patiently for a customer to find the money needed to pay for his glass of wine

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