Wine Collection (page 7)

IRISH OFF LICENCE / 1960S
An interior view of Gilbeys Irish off licence in the Haymarket, Belfast. Date: 1960s

ADVERT / AUSTRALIAN WINE
Australian Wine Date: 20th century

THE REAL PRESENCE
To settle the question whether he is really present in the sacrament of bread (his body) and wine (his blood) Jesus appears to Pope Gregorius I and tells him yes, he is, Date: 6th century

BLACKSMITHS DRINKING
Two French blacksmiths take a wine-break Date: 1885

PROVENCE HARVEST (2)
The grape harvest, Provence (2 of 2) Date: circa 1905

PROVENCE GRAPE HARVEST
The grape harvest, Provence (1 of 2). Date: circa 1905

Monks at Dinner
Friday Though they have vowed to eat no meat on Friday, monks are allowed plenty of wine with their Friday meal of fish

17th century Vintner
A vintner (wine seller) fills a customers glass from his portable barrel. Date: 17th century

MONK WINE CELLAR 14 CENT
A monk drinking in a wine-cellar Date: 14th century

BACCHUS / VINES / VIRGIL
Tending the vines, while Bacchus presides over the activities. Date: First published: 29 BC

SPIRIT SACRIFICE TO WINE
Man in drunken stupor, surrounded by bacchic cherubs, preferring earthly pleasure of wine to heavenly promises

SPIRIT IGNORED FOR WINE
Man in drunken stupour, surrounded by bacchic cherubs, preferring earthly pleasure to heavenly promises

PICNIC ON ROYAL HUNT
A picnic during a royal hunt Date: 1575

Convict chain, France
A chain of convicts welcome a new arrival at La Tournelle: Jean-Francois Gruet, a tax collector condemned to the galleys for life for appropriating public money. Date: December 1716

Woman smoking pipe
A lady smoker with a pipe and a cup of wine Date: 17th century

Travel Through Egypt
Girls of Araby. Arabian women in traditional costume carrying fruit and wine. Hilda Dix Sandford illustrated this image as her ship passed through the Suez Canal en rooute to Australia circa 1908

Attack on Whig mug-house
The Whigs were a political faction and then a political party in the parliaments of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom

The New Compensation Act - 1906 - Butler takes a tumble
The New Compensation Act - Butler " Heres a go. I m goin to break me leg" - a Butler is not unduly concerned at his tumble down the stairs to the wine cellar

Do Mori - the oldest bar in Venice
Do Mori, oldest bar (bacaro) in Venice, near Rialto fish market. 500 years old. The barman serves wine Date: 2013

Thebes, Upper Egypt, North Africa - Tomb of Nakht - Vineyard workers squeezing grapes to produce wine. Date: circa 1920s

Madame Fillioux - Lyon, France - The Queen of Chickens
Madame Fillioux (1865-?) working at her sons (D. Frechin) establishment where she appears to specialise in the sale of wine, asparagus and chickens! 73, Rue Duquesne, Lyon, France

Street mobile French Grape Press at Gien, Loiret, France
Street mobile French Grape Press at Gien a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France. Date: 1910s

President Street - Germiston, Transvaal, South Africa Date: circa 1909

Four wine glasses
Wine glass with a double series opaque twist stem and tulip-shaped bowl engraved with swags of husk decoration, one of a set of four made in England c.1790. Date: c.1790

Wine glass with an ogee bowl on an opaque twist stem of spiral gauze twist and multiple spiral twist, made in England c.1765-1770. Date: c.1765-1770

Monks at Dinner - Friday by Walter Dendy Sadler
Friday Though they have vowed to eat no meat on Friday, the Abbot, monks and guests are allowed plenty of wine with their Friday meal of fish. Now in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Date: 1913

Dom Perignon, French monk and cellarer
Dom Perignon (1638-1715), French Benedictine monk who is often (incorrectly) credited with the invention of sparkling champagne

Statue of Dionysus, god of wine
GREEK ART. REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA. Statue of Dionysus, god of wine. Found during the excavations of Ninfeo of Butrint in 1929. S. II a.C. Ruins of Butrint Museum

Dionysus Bevilacqua. Roman sculpture after Greek originals of the 4th century BC, previously in the Bevilacqua Collection (Verona). Glyptothek. Munich. Germany

Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675). The wine glass, c. 1658-1660
Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675). Dutch painter specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle class life. The wine glass, c. 1658-1660

Roman Art. Statue of Dionysos leaning on a female figure ( Hope Dionysos ). Marble. Augustan or Julio-Claudian period. 27 B.C.-68 A.C. Roman copy of Greek original

Roman mosaic with Dyonysius head
Mosaic of a Roman villa decorated with geometric motifs and Dionysius head with fruit and ivy in hIs hair in the center. Pitchers with ivy in the corners

Woman and Wine by Arthur Shirley and Ben Landeck
Promotional postcard for Woman and Wine by Arthur Shirley and Ben Landeck. First produced at the Pavilion Theatre, 11th October 1897

Fruits de Mer at Rick Steins restaurant, Padstow, Cornwall
Fruits de Mer at Rick Steins seafood restaurant, Padstow, Cornwall. circa 1980s

High Street, Sutton, Surrey
High Street, Sutton, near Croydon, Surrey, England. Showing the Christmas Show Week Celebrations. Also the shop/premises of Walsh Drapers, The Victoria Wine Company and Freeman Hardy Willis Date: 1908

People at the well, Cana, Galilee, Northern Israel
People collecting water at the well in Cana, Galilee, Northern Israel. According to biblical legend, it was in Cana that Jesus turned water into wine at a wedding feast -- his first miracle

Paris, France - Halle aux Vins. Date: 1829

Anti-German cartoon, Made in Germany, WW1
Made in Germany, an anti-German First World War cartoon, showing a long-legged Kaiser Wilhelm II running from France to Germany with a flask of wine

Christmas card in the shape of two decanters of sherry and port wine. Date: circa 1890s

Hispano-Roman amphora used to carry oil, wine or cereal. It comes from the coast of Catalonia. Roman art. Ceramics

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