Wood Collection (#21)

Advert for Maple & Co furniture 1890 Advert for Maple & Co furniture 1890
Selection of bamboo and wicker furniture and wooden overmantels. Date: 1890

WOOD WITH BLUEBELLS
A fine display of bluebells in an English woodland setting. Date: late 19th century

Wood pigeons (Columba palumbus). Date: 1877

WASSAIL BOWL / CHRISTMAS
Gloucestershire Wassail bowl, ornamented with laurel, mistletoe & ribbons. The large bowl was made from the wood of apple trees. Date: 1846

FALL / ST. BERNARD / 1945
TRISTAN OF NEWBRIDGE Owner: Wood Date: 1945

FALL / ST. BERNARD / 1937
CHAMPION MARQUIS WETTERHORN Owned by Mrs Wood. Date: 1937

LADY RELAXING 1940S
A young woman with bare feet lies on her back on a grassy bank and stares up at the sky in a mood of relaxation and contemplation Date: 1940s

FALL / FOX TERRIER / 1955
CHAMPION HAMPOLE HOUSEMASTER Owned by Lindley-Wood. Date: 1955

FALL / WATER DOG / 1956
CHIBANTA OF TALLWOOD with classic clip, from last rib to pom pom on tail tip. Owned by Wood. Date: 1956

LOADING A BIG BEAM
Loading a large beam of wood onto a cart. Date: circa 1810

WOODCUTTERS CHOP LOGS
Woodcutters chop up trees into logs. Date: circa 1810

WOODCUTTERS SAW A LOG
Woodcutters saw a log. Date: circa 1810

WOODMAN & DOG IN SNOW WOODMAN & DOG IN SNOW
A woodman walks through the snow with his dog and an axe under his arm. Date: 1865

ADVERT / SANDWICH MAN 19C
Sandwichman advertising Babes in the Wood at Drury Lane Theatre Date: late 19th century

SIR HENRY JOSEPH WOOD (1869 - 1944), English conductor and composer, associated with Promenade Concerts Date: 1907

MASSENET / THAIS SCENE
JULES MASSENET French composer with a scene from his opera Thais Date: 1842 - 1912

WOOD STOVE POSTER
Poster for MIRUS wood stove, which, if you are wise enough to purchase one, will entitle you to thumb your nose at Jack Frost Date: 1923

SEE-SAW / LATE C19TH
A group of children enjoy a makeshift see-saw fashioned from a wooden barrel and a plank of wood taken from a nearby building site Date: late 19th century

The Great bell at the base of the tower 1858
Officially known as the Great Bell but better known as Big Ben, at the base of the tower, being pull alone with make-shift logs. Date: 1858

KNIGHT IN FOREST
An armed knight rides beside a stream in a deep wood : a castle stands on the heights beyond

LAVOISIER BOTANISING
ANTOINE-LAURENT LAVOISIER French scientist, depicted collecting botanical specimens in a wood Date: 1743 - 1794

PLANTS / ANEMONE NEMOROSA
WOOD ANEMONE Date: early 20th century

CHILDREN PICNIC IN WOODS
Children having a picnic in a wood Date: 1900

TREES / DOUGLAS FIR
Douglas Firs and Gigantic Cedar on the road near New Westminster, British Columbia Date: 1870

JAPANESE PRINTING
How they print from wood blocks in the Orient - apart from its subject interest, a remarkable pastiche of Japanese painting Date: 1924

17th Century Woodcutter
An early woodcutter Date: 17th century

17th century Woodworkers
Two woodworkers sawing through a piece of wood held in a workbench. Date: 17th century

JOAN OF ARC AT STAKE
JOAN OF ARC She kisses the cross before being burned at the stake, in Rouen, 30 May 1431 Date: 1431

Wax figures in the Abbey
The effigies - life-sized figures made of wax and wood, and lavishly dressed in robes and jewels - were often carried during funeral processions

Maria Wood
A lavishly adorned mayoral barge built during the mayorality of Sir Matthew Wood at a cost of lb3, 300. Date: 19th century

Canada - Ontario - Mining Town - South Lorrain - Keeley-Jowsley-Wood Company Ore House - Silver Mine interior with two men and guard dog. Date: circa 1908

Instrument in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Date: circa 1750

The Babes in the Wood, pantomime

Oil cars at shipping station, Bakersfield, Kern County, USA
Oil cars at Southern Pacific shipping station, Bakersfield, Kern County, USA. Date: circa 1910s

A forester cuts logs with a chain saw during tree felling opertations in Cannock Chase Forest, Staffordshire, England. Date: 1991

Grey horse in stable, Menorca, Spain
A grey horse pushes its head through a stable window ins Algar, Menorca, Spain Date: 2012

Baker Juan Olives bakes bread in olive wood burning oven
Baker Juan Olives, third generation of bakers to use a traditional olive wood burning stove to bake bread and crespells (a traditional Spanish sweet cake), pictured

Wood sawyer with old double-handled saw
Portrait of sawyer with an old double-handled saw. His beard is dusted with sawdust and he wears a cloth cap. He looks straight at the camera Date: 1989

Stick dresser
Mr Stuart Bodsworth, stick dresser and wood carver at work on the horn handle of a walking stick. Birmingham, England. First published The Independent Date: 1986

Start of Major Woods Unlucky Flight - Receiving a blessing
Major J C P Wood and Captain C C Wyllie met with misfortune during their preliminary flight from Eastchurch to Limerick, whence they intended to cross the Atlantic from west to east

WW1 - Lieutenant Keith Eric Wood - 23rd London Regiment - Roll of Honour in The Graphic July 3rd, 1915. Date: 1915

Ramblers near Great Wood, Hambleden, Buckinghamshire. Date: circa 1980s

Franco-British Exhibition, London - Wood Lane Entrance. Date: 1908

Siena, Italy - Contrada - Selva (Wood)
Standard bearer of the Contrada of Selva (Wood), Siena, Italy. At birth you become a member of one of the 17 Contrade (Districts) and your life revolves around your Contrada

France - Gerardmer - Woodmen with sledges
Gerardmer - a town in northeastern France, near the German border. Its known as a ski resort, with tree-lined slopes which fed a thriving timber industry

New Zealand - Ancient Carved Maori Gateway or Waharoa - 20ft high - Te Koutou Pah (or Pa - a village of more commonly, a hill fort), Rotorua - now in the Auckland Museum. Date: 1920s

Misericords - Worcester Cathedral, Worcester, Worcestershire
Misericords in Worcester Cathedral, Worcester, Worcestershire. Most of the misericord carvings at Worcester Cathedral date from around 1379. Date: 14th century

Arab porters in Iraq carrying long planks of wood through a palm grove. Date: 1910s

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