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Picnics

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  • Hyde Park, near Kensington Palace: ladies and children drinking from a spring and eating a picnic. Engraving by J. Godby, 1802, after Mary Spilsbury.
  • "Snacks, spreads, fillings" / Stork Margarine Cookery Service.
  • Mr. Lambkin playing the fool at a picnic with his loved one and friends. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
  • A group of children are stealing food from a picnic they have found under a tree. Wood engraving by Dalziel after M. ten Kate.
  • People eating in the shade beneath a tree; representing June. Etching by G. Perelle, c. 1660.
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Catalogue

    • Ephemera
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    "Snacks, spreads, fillings" / Stork Margarine Cookery Service.

    | Date: 1945
    • Ephemera

    Midsummer picnic : everyone welcome! : Cumberland Market, Saturday 22 June, 12.00-16.30 / Wellcome Collection.

    | Date: 2013
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    Greenwich, with people in the foreground, London in the distance. Photo-lithograph by Dawsons after H. Dawson.

    Dawson, Henry, 1811-1878. | Reference: 26592i
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    Two stockbrokers out shooting game in Hornsey Wood have a picnic: one of them compares them to swallows, as they awallow food and a bottle of sherry. Lithograph after R. Seymour.

    Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836. | Date: 1830-1839 | Reference: 29296i
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    A physically disabled boy sitting on the ground at a picnic. Photograph, ca. 1910/1925.

    | Date: [1910/1925?] | Reference: 43578i
    Part of: Scenes in the life of a physically disabled boy. Photographs, ca. 1910/1925
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