Fruit Collection

Six Persimmons by Chinese Buddhist monk Muqi Fachang (ca1210-1269) spontaneous painting made during the Song dynasty
2HJCG9P Six Persimmons by Chinese Buddhist monk Muqi Fachang (ca1210-1269) spontaneous painting made during the Song dynasty

Goblin Market by Pauline Baynes
Illustration by Pauline Baynes depicting a scene from Goblin Market, the poem by Christina Rossetti

The Harem, 1876. Creator: John Frederick Lewis
The Harem, 1876

Certificate of merit awarded for One Weeks Regular & Punctual Attendance circa 1860 Certificate of merit awarded for One Weeks Regular & Punctual Attendance circa 1860 Chromolithograph

Still Life with Fruit, 1700-1749. Creator: Jan van Huysum
Still Life with Fruit, 1700-1749

Fruit-Sellers Counting Their Money, 1618, (1914). Creator: BartolomA Esteban Murillo
Fruit-Sellers Counting Their Money, 1618, (1914). Child street-vendors with a basket of grapes. Painting in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

In Love
Artist: Stone, Marcus C. - Title: In Love - Date: 1888 - Original Medium and Size: Oil on Canvas 111.8 x 167.7

Twinflower, Linnaea borealis, Linnea boreale

Glasgow Street Scene
An electric tram grinds along Charing Cross, past a row of fruit barrows

The Strawberry Thief, textile designed by William Morris, 1883

Wind in the Willows
" The Badgers winter stores, which indeed were visible everywhere, took up half the room." Date: First published: 1908

Suze Alcoholic Drinks, including Vermouth, Gin, Fruit Liqueur, Cherry brandy and (centre) an Aperitif made from fermented Gentian. Date: circa 1930s

Womens Institute activities during the First World War, making jam and wicker baskets to help with the war effort. 1915

Two Grey Squirrels on a mini picnic bench having a birthday party Date: 18-Mar-19

Transportable Ciderpress
A transportable cider press in use at Pensford, Somerset South-west England) : the fruit is first ground in a mill, then crushed in a press to extract the cider

Prost Oktoberfest
The Whiskey Ginger

Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis) female among wind-fallen apples. Hertfordshire, England, UK, January

Garden Paintings from the so-called Villa of Livia, Primaporta, Rome, c.20 BC. Roman art. Fresco

apple quince - ripe, yellow fruits of apple quince on a quince tree in autumn - Baden-Wuerttemberg
SAS-1171 apple quince - ripe, yellow fruits of apple quince on a quince tree in autumn Baden-Wuerttemberg

Venice travel poster
Attractive poster for the French National Railways, Chemin de Fers de l Est, advertising Venice (or Venise) as a holiday destination

Rowan Tree / Mountain Ash - Ripe berries in autumn Lower Saxony, Germany
USH-1847 Rowan Tree / Mountain Ash - Ripe berries in autumn Lower Saxony

Enos Fruit Salts
Full page colour advertisement fo Enos fruit salts, a popular remedy for digestive problems throughout the 19th century

Ghost plant or Indian pipe, Monotropa uniflora. Monotrope a une fleur

Poster - Eat More Fruit - for Health and Vitality - published / issued by the Retail Fruit Trade Federation Ltd. Date: 1950s

Durio zibethinus, durian fruit
Plate 146 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Balanced diet, computer artwork. A balanced diet shown as segments of a pie. The pie shows what proportion of the diet should be made up of each of the major food groups

Advert for Idris quality soft drinks 1944
Who made the lemon squash Date: 1944

Fresh loquat (Eriobotrya) fruits and green leaves

Plants bearing fruits and seeds
Plants bearing berries and seeds including guava, membrillo, brazil nut, mistletoe, spotted laurel, cannonball tree, cactus, eucalyptus, myrtle, clove, caraway, coriander, hemlock, cumin, etc

Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) male on a branch feeding on Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia) berries, Leon, Spain, February

The Hireling Shepherd, 1851, (1948). Creator: William Holman Hunt
The Hireling Shepherd, 1851, (1948). A shepherd neglects his flock and woos a young woman with a lamb on her lap. Behind them, two bloated sheep lie on the ground poisoned by the corn

Plum, Cherry, Sloe and Bullace Victorian Botanical Illustration
Very Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Engraved Botanical Illustration of Plum, Cherry, Sloe and Bullace, from The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain, Published in 1846

Plant Anatomy, Victorian Botanical Illustration
Very Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Engraved Victorian Botanical Illustration of Plant Anatomy: Plate 1

The Arnolfini Portrait by Van Eyck
The Arnolfini Portrait. 1434. By Jan van Eyck (1394-1441). Oil on oak panel. National Gallery. London. Great Britain

Fruit Label -- best Jaffa grapefruit
Fruit Label -- Ruth best Jaffa grapefruit, packed by Z A Chelouche, produce of Palestine. Depicting a smiling woman with a tray of fruit balanced on her head. Date: 20th century

Partridge In a pear tree
JD-14263 Partridge - In a pear tree John Daniels Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Lemon tree and fruit, Citrus limon (Citrus limonum). Chromolithograph by E

Flowers and Birds, 19th century. Creator: Taki Katei
Flowers and Birds, 19th century. Meiji period

Rupe Rupe (Fruit Gathering), 1899. Artist: Paul Gauguin
Rupe Rupe (Fruit Gathering), 1899. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Advertisement for Provence, France
French railways advertisement for Provence, France. 1946

Fletts Happy Families - Mr Marmalade - Has A Big Future. circa 1930s

Poster, Provence, France. Date: circa 1940s

The pineapple (Ananas comosus)
illustration of a pineapple (Ananas comosus)

Orangier des Gcnes, Arancio di Genova
Tab. 8 from Histoire naturelle des Orangers 1818-1820, by Antoine Risso (1777-1845)

Elaeis guineensis Jacq. African oil palm
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Ananas aculeatus, pineapple
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Mangifera indica, mango
Illustration from the Fleming Indian Drawings Collection, 1800. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Lemon Tree - with ripe lemon fruits hanging from branch - Borrego Springs, California, USA
SAS-1938 Lemon Tree - with ripe lemon fruits hanging from branch Borrego Springs, California

Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) tree, Kingstown, St. Vincent, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Lesser Antilles, West Indies, Caribbean, Central America

Two women at work in a Mexican kitchen. Painting by an unknown artist, c1850
MEXICO: KITCHEN, c1850. Two women at work in a Mexican kitchen. Painting by an unknown artist, c1850

CHILI PEPPER, 1735. Line engraving by Elizabeth Blackwell from her book A Curious Herbal published in London, 1735

Spangles Coronation advertisement
Lovely advertisement for Spangles fruit sweets - the sweet way to go gay - showing a crowd excitedly watching the Coronation and waving flags. Date: 1953

English oak (Quercus robur) acorns. Acorns forming on an English oak tree. This tree is also known as the pedunculate oak. Acorns are the fruit of the oak tree

ARCIMBOLDO: SUMMER, 1563. Oil on canvas by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1563

Lemons growing on trees in grove, Sorrento, Campania, Italy, Europe

Anti Fruit Throwing Sign
Metropolitan Police notice warning against throwing or despositing orange peel, banana or other fruit skins in the street in London

Durian fruit piled up for sale in Bangkok, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia

Autumn grapes and vines, Denbies vineyard, Dorking, Surrey, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Black truffle, Tuber melanosporum (Tuber cibarium, Tartufo commestibile, Lycoperdon tuber)

Fig, Ficus carica. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Fruit shop, Tehran, Iran, Middle East

Nut and Fruit Trees of the Garden, Victorian Botanical Illustration
Very Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Engraved Victorian Botanical Illustration of Nut and Fruti Trees of the Garden: Plate 49

Fruit fly, SEM Z340 / 0768
Fruit fly. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a fruit fly (Drosophila funebris) on an apple. Its compound eyes (red) are seen and its wings are outstretched

Coffee plant, 19th century C016 / 5141
Coffee plant, 19th-century artwork. The illustration is captioned in French as Cafier d arabic. This artwork is from Phytographie Medicale (Paris, 1821-4) by French botanist Joseph R

Traffic congestion, Covent Garden, London WC2
Traffic congestion in the Covent Garden area, London WC2, showing a view along Henrietta Street from the corner of Bedford Street during the morning of 26 March 1959

Theobroma cacao, cocoa pod
Plate 49 from Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous (1858) by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928)

Heteropoda venatoria, huntsman spider
This a large brown spider with a flattened body structure and a leg span of between 7 and 12 cm. These spiders hunt at night, and mainly prey upon cockroaches

Citrus sinensis, sweet orange

Naked little girl looking in the mirror
A little girl wearing nothing but her shoes and socks, and pink ribbons in her hair, looks in the mirror and says " Goodness, Is That Me!" She is holding an apple in her left hand

Frys, 1950s, UK
Fry s, 1950s, UK

Salt grains and ground peppercorn, SEM
Salt grains and ground peppercorn, coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM). Each salt (sodium chloride) crystal (white) is composed of a cubic lattice of sodium and chloride ions

Cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus)
Cloudberry fruit (Rubus chamaemorus)

Lodsworth Womens Institute jam making, August 1943
Photograph by George Garland Garland Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: Garland N22454

Orange grove in California
California orange grove, 1890s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

DOG. Jack russell terrier and parson jack russell terrier puppy in a barrel with grapes
JD-22183 DOG. Jack russell terrier and parson jack russell terrier puppy in a barrel with grapes John Daniels Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Street scene with shops, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales
A street scene with shops, in Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales. The large corner shop is Bells grocery store, decorated with flags, perhaps to celebrate Empire Day (24 May)

BANANAS
Banana Monstera Deliciosa, aka Fruit Salad Plant, Cariman, Mexican Breadfruit, Locust & Wild Honey, Windowleaf, Monsterio, Swiss Cheese Plant etc

Dandelion flowers and seed-heads ("clocks')
ROG-12281 Dandelion flowers and seed-heads ("clocks') Taraxacum officinale Bob Gibbons Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in anyway

Orange and lemon trees in the Alcazar gardens, Cordoba, Andalucia, Spain, Europe

Glace fruit, market, Provence, France, Europe

Land Girls WWII
A Land Girl working picking strawberries on a farm during World War II

Harvest mice - on rose hips Bedfordshire UK
BB-1571 Harvest mice - on rose hips Bedfordshire UK Micromys minutus Brian Bevan Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Overhead view of the fruit and vegetable market, Pushkar, Rajasthan State, India, Asia

Close-up of a truss of red and ripening vine tomatoes on a tomato plant

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"In Love with the Sweetness of Fruit: A Glasgow Street Scene" As the wind gently rustles through the willows, I am reminded of the vibrant colors and flavors that fruit brings to our lives. Just like "The Strawberry Thief, " a textile designed by William Morris in 1883, a way of stealing our hearts. In Derek Jarmans' Caravaggio (1986), Dexter Fletcher's character finds solace in painting still lifes filled with luscious fruits, and is as if he captures their essence on canvas, making them immortal. Imagine sipping cider made from a transportable cider press while reading Pauline Baynes' Goblin Market. The words come alive as you taste each succulent bite. Nature surprises us with its wonders, just like the ghost plant or Indian pipe, Monotropa uniflora. Its ethereal beauty reminds us that even in darkness, there is life and hope. Fruit has been celebrated throughout history; it takes center stage in Van Eyck's iconic Arnolfini Portrait. The juicy oranges symbolize wealth and fertility – an ode to nature's abundance. During times of hardship, such as the First World War, women found solace and purpose through Women's Institute activities. Preserving fruit became not only a necessity but also an act of resilience and unity. Raise your glass filled with Suze Alcoholic Drinks. Let its fruity notes transport you to sun-kissed gardens depicted in paintings from Livia's Villa – where every brushstroke celebrates nature's bounty. So next time you bite into a piece of fruit, remember its rich history and how it has inspired artists throughout centuries. Let yourself be enchanted by its sweetness and embrace all that nature offers us.