EditorialColour illustration for 'my lady's garden'. A young woman standing, holding a watering can, in a garden. Triplets. Comprising, The Baby's Opera, The Baby's Bouquet, and The Baby's Own ?sop. With the original designs in colour by W. Crane, etc. London ...
EditorialIllustrations of garden tools. Elysium Britannicum. England [Deptford, co. Kent]; circa 1660 - 1706. [Whole opening] Book II, chapter 1; concerning 'the instruments belonging to a gardiner, and their various uses'. The illustration of garden tools, inc...
Editorial'Roses and Honeysuckle'. Roses entwined around a wooden frame. Below, a watering can, a hoe and flowers in pots. At Home again. Verses. [Illustrated by] J. G. Sowerby and T. Crane. London : Marcus Ward & Co., [1886]. Source: 12806.t.30, page 16. Langua...
EditorialIllustrations of garden tools. Elysium Britannicum. England [Deptford, co. Kent]; circa 1660 - 1706. [Whole folio] Book II, chapter 1, concerning 'instruments belonging to a gardiner, and their various uses'. Illustration of garden equipment, including...
EditorialA Girl with a Watering Can facing left: Sarah Hough, Mrs. T.P. Sandby's Nursery Maid. Date/Period: Ca. 1805. Portrait. Gray wash, pen and gray ink and graphite on moderately thick, cream, slightly textured laid paper. Height: 137 mm (5.39 in); Width: 8...
EditorialWatering Can (arrosoir, deuxi?me grandeur); Painted by Bardet, French, active 1749 and 1751 - 1758, Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory, French, active about 1740 - 1756; Vincennes, France, Europe; 1754; Soft paste porcelain, polychrome enamel decoration a...
EditorialThirsty sweet pea, Lathyrus odoratus, flower fairy kneeling on the ground drinking water from the spout of a watering can. Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from "Les Fleurs Animees," P...
EditorialThe return of the flower fairies, a procession of flower fairies approach a regal flower fairy attended by putti with dragonfly and butterfly wings. In the foreground a beetle holds a watering can, and pruning shear and a rake are laid on a carpet. Han...