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Grapes

Edible berry of a flowering plant in the family Vitaceae

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Images referencing Grapes

51 images from works
  • Four female torsos joined at the waist with garden features as heads; symbolising the four seasons in a garden. Etching by T. B., c. 1797.
  • Grape vine with fruit and leaves. Pencil drawing.
  • A grape vine (Vitis species): fruiting stem with separate leaves and fruit. Watercolour.
  • A birds eating grapes from vines entwined around a bamboo plant. Colour woodcut by K. Egawa after Ryuryukyo Shinsai.
  • Grape vine (Vitis vinifera L.) with black grapes. Coloured lithograph after J. Polydore.
  • Vertumnus and Pomona as lovers. Engraving by M. Pool after J. Courtin.
  • Silenus, holding grapes and crowned with vines, flanked by a maenad and a faun. Engraving by C. Faucci, c. 1768, after G. B. Cipriani after P. Rubens.
  • Men and women carousing in a stately bedroom, with accompanying text on the artist. Engraving by J. L. Delignon, late 18th century, after A. Borel after J. B. Weenix.
  • Delicious fruit from Chile : at Tesco, our buyers have travelled to Chile and selected only the best produce for our customers : grown with care by the fruit farmers of Chile / Tesco.
  • Two of Moses' spies bring back grapes from the land of Eshcol. Wood engraving.

Works from the collections

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    An ornamental French liqueur label. Gold letterpress on blue paper, 19th century.

    | Reference: 25718i
    • Books

    Fiziologi︠︡ia vinograda i osnovy ego vozdelyvani︠︡ia / pod rukovodstvom i redak︠t︡sieĭ K. Stoeva.

    | Date: 1981-1984
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    Two naked children picking grapes. Lithograph by Piecq, c. 1845, after Gosse.

    Gosse. | Date: 1845 | Reference: 25741i
    Part of: Champagne Montebello
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    The first verse of a poem entitled, "Rheinweinlied", surrounded by an ornamental design with a large wine glass. Etching, 1842.

    | Date: 1842 | Reference: 26291i
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    A grape vine, cedar of lebanon and two palm trees by a lake with eleven other plants from the bible forming a border. Lithograph, c. 1850.

    | Date: 1850 | Reference: 27985i

Related topics

Fruit
Vitaceae
Climbing plants
Wine
Alcohol Drinking
Mythology, Greek
Dionysia
Plants, Cultivated
Alcoholism
Bacchantes

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