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Watermelons

Images

  • A woman offers a watermelon to a sick man; he is cured and both start dancing; she holds up a medicine bottle. Coloured lithograph, 1890.
  • Two melon fruits, a honeydew melon (Cucumis melo) and water melon (Citrullus lanatus) Chromolithograph, c. 1870, after H. Briscoe.
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Catalogue

    • Ephemera

    Sapolio : one cake will do more work and will do it better than three cakes of any other mineral or scouring soap ever made / Enoch Morgan Sons.

    Enoch Morgan Sons' Co. | Date: 1882
    • Pictures

    An Indian woman, standing with a basket of sliced fruit on her head, in a studio setting.

    | Date: [approximately 1900] | Reference: 535906i
    Part of: The Fallaize Collection.
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Two melon fruits, a honeydew melon (Cucumis melo) and water melon (Citrullus lanatus) Chromolithograph, c. 1870, after H. Briscoe.

    Briscoe, H. | Date: [1870] | Reference: 26151i
    • Pictures

    An Indian woman, sitting on a rock with a basket of sliced fruit beside her, in a studio setting.

    | Date: [approximately 1900] | Reference: 535809i
    Part of: The Fallaize Collection.
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A woman offers a watermelon to a sick man; he is cured and both start dancing; she holds up a medicine bottle. Coloured lithograph, 1890.

    | Date: 1890 | Reference: 18060i
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