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Turnip Collection (#3)

"Exploring the Rich History and Versatility of Turnips: From Victorian Botanical Illustrations to Italian Donkeys Carrying Root Crops" Turnip

Background imageTurnip Collection: Potato Solanum tuberosum aerde apples Arachidna theophrasti Tartouffani

Potato Solanum tuberosum aerde apples Arachidna theophrasti Tartouffani
Potato (Solanum tuberosum) aerde apples. / Arachidna theophrasti Tartouffani. / pommes de terre. (title on object), Potato or another plant from the nightshade family

Background imageTurnip Collection: Historic Maules Seed Book With Illustration Of Blood Turnip Beet From 20th Century

Historic Maules Seed Book With Illustration Of Blood Turnip Beet From 20th Century

Background imageTurnip Collection: Cries of London Plate 13: Turnips & Carrots, Carottes & Navets, 1797. (1911)

Cries of London Plate 13: Turnips & Carrots, Carottes & Navets, 1797. (1911)
Cries of London Plate 13, Turnips & Carrots, Carottes & Navets, 1797. After an original work by Francis Wheatley (1747-1801). From The Connoisseur Volume XXIX [Otto Limited, London, 1911]

Background imageTurnip Collection: Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Medieval handbook of healt

Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Medieval handbook of health. Man gathering turnips. Woman cleaning turnips in a river. Miniature. Fol. 52 r

Background imageTurnip Collection: Vintage radish seed packet

Vintage radish seed packet
A radish seed packet from the Card Seed Company, New York. Date: c. 1910

Background imageTurnip Collection: Turnip (Brassica rapa var. rapa) Golden Ball, bulbous taproots

Turnip (Brassica rapa var. rapa) Golden Ball, bulbous taproots

Background imageTurnip Collection: Ploughing up Turnips, near Slough, (`Windsor ), c1809. Artist: JMW Turner

Ploughing up Turnips, near Slough, (`Windsor ), c1809. Artist: JMW Turner
Ploughing up Turnips, near Slough, (`Windsor ), c1809. From the Tate collection, London

Background imageTurnip Collection: Crop rotation: sheep on a break of turnips, 1855

Crop rotation: sheep on a break of turnips, 1855. Crop rotation is the practice of growing different crops alternately on the same patch of ground over a cycle of several years in order to protect

Background imageTurnip Collection: Crop rotation: women thinning turnips, 1855

Crop rotation: women thinning turnips, 1855. Crop rotation is the practice of growing different crops alternately on the same patch of ground over a cycle of several years in order to protect

Background imageTurnip Collection: Governors House, Reykjavik

Governors House, Reykjavik
Governors House (left side) of Reykjavik. Magn� ephensen, governor, commissioned the building of the house as a place to live after he retired. Date: circa 1910

Background imageTurnip Collection: Rabbits with carrots on a Christmas card

Rabbits with carrots on a Christmas card
Three adult rabbits and three baby rabbits with carrots on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageTurnip Collection: Illustration, The Turnip

Illustration, The Turnip -- So the rich brother had to put his brothers Turnip into a cart and have it taken home. Date: 1909

Background imageTurnip Collection: Turnip, cabbage and hares ear mustard

Turnip, cabbage and hares ear mustard.. Handcolored botanical copperplate engraving from Joshua Hamiltons Culpepers English Family Physician; or Medical Herbal Enlarged

Background imageTurnip Collection: Turnip and rocket cabbage or dog mustard

Turnip and rocket cabbage or dog mustard.. Handcolored botanical copperplate engraving from Joshua Hamiltons Culpepers English Family Physician; or Medical Herbal Enlarged

Background imageTurnip Collection: Root vegetables, carrot Daucus carota and turnip

Root vegetables, carrot Daucus carota and turnip Brassica rapa.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtiss Lectures on Botany

Background imageTurnip Collection: AD: PERFUME. American advertisement for Alfred Wrights perfumery scents for sale by Sharpless

AD: PERFUME. American advertisement for Alfred Wrights perfumery scents for sale by Sharpless and Sons, Philadelphia. Chromolithograph, late 19th or early 20th century

Background imageTurnip Collection: Turnip vegetable engraving 1874

Turnip vegetable engraving 1874
The New Practical Gardener, and Modern Horticulturist

Background imageTurnip Collection: Kohlraby

Kohlraby
Illustration engraving of a Kohlraby

Background imageTurnip Collection: Kohlrabi

Kohlrabi
Engraved illustration of Kohlrabi

Background imageTurnip Collection: White, flat round Turnip

White, flat round Turnip

Background imageTurnip Collection: Munich beer radish

Munich beer radish
Antique illustration of a Munich beer radish

Background imageTurnip Collection: Swedish Turnip

Swedish Turnip

Background imageTurnip Collection: Turnip Snowball

Turnip Snowball

Background imageTurnip Collection: White, round turnips

White, round turnips
Illustration of a White, round turnips

Background imageTurnip Collection: Turnip stern

Turnip stern
Illustration of a Carrots pale yellow

Background imageTurnip Collection: FSA SLIDE FILM, c1940. Keep your stored vegetables and fruits right. Photograph by John Collier

FSA SLIDE FILM, c1940. Keep your stored vegetables and fruits right. Photograph by John Collier, from a Farm Security Administration slide film, c1940

Background imageTurnip Collection: The Supper at Emmaus, c. 1614-21

The Supper at Emmaus, c. 1614-21
XAM74850 The Supper at Emmaus, c.1614-21 by Caravaggio, Michelangelo (1571-1610) (follower of); 154x198.5 cm; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria; Italian, out of copyright

Background imageTurnip Collection: La Machine d Argent, 1754 (silver)

La Machine d Argent, 1754 (silver)
XOS1765298 La Machine d Argent, 1754 (silver) by Germain, Francois Thomas (1726-91); 21x36.8x23.2 cm; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Background imageTurnip Collection: Portrait of Pieter Adriaanz Raap, Jacob Houbraken, 1708 - 1780

Portrait of Pieter Adriaanz Raap, Jacob Houbraken, 1708 - 1780

Background imageTurnip Collection: Turnips, Tab XII from the Album Benary, engraved by G. Severeyns, 1876

Turnips, Tab XII from the Album Benary, engraved by G. Severeyns, 1876
XZL151120 Turnips, Tab XII from the Album Benary, engraved by G. Severeyns, 1876 (chromolitho) by Benary, Ernst (19th century); Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, London, UK; German, out of copyright

Background imageTurnip Collection: Still life with casserole and wild duck, 1885 (oil on canvas)

Still life with casserole and wild duck, 1885 (oil on canvas)
XKH150961 Still life with casserole and wild duck, 1885 (oil on canvas) by Schuch, Carl (1846-1903); 64x80.5 cm; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany; Austrian, out of copyright

Background imageTurnip Collection: Portrait of Pieter Adriaanz. Raap, Jacobus Houbraken, Hendrik Pothoven, Nicolaes Eliasz

Portrait of Pieter Adriaanz. Raap, Jacobus Houbraken, Hendrik Pothoven, Nicolaes Eliasz. Pickenoy, 1708 - 1780

Background imageTurnip Collection: Figures with baskets of fruit and vegetables, Jan van de Velde (II), 1616

Figures with baskets of fruit and vegetables, Jan van de Velde (II), 1616

Background imageTurnip Collection: The Kitchen Maid, 1738 (oil on canvas)

The Kitchen Maid, 1738 (oil on canvas)
XOS164167 The Kitchen Maid, 1738 (oil on canvas) by Chardin, Jean-Baptiste Simeon (1699-1779); 46.2x37.5 cm; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Background imageTurnip Collection: BENJAMIN HAWKINS (1754-1816). American planter, politician, and Indian agent

BENJAMIN HAWKINS (1754-1816). American planter, politician, and Indian agent. On his plantation in Georgia, teaching Creek Native Americans how to use a plow

Background imageTurnip Collection: Souvenir Hunters

Souvenir Hunters
23rd September 1916: Visitors to a Zeppelin crash site in Essex search for fragments of the debris in a turnip field. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTurnip Collection: The Tenor hits a high note and is met by a special bouquet

The Tenor hits a high note and is met by a special bouquet
An Operatic Tenor hits a high note and is met by a special bouquet, comprising of eggs, carrots, a turnip and a dead cat! " He who pitches too high, won t get through his song"

Background imageTurnip Collection: The Tenor hits a high note and a special bouquet awaits

The Tenor hits a high note and a special bouquet awaits
The Tenors Top Note. An Operatic Tenor hits a high note and is about to meet a special bouquet, comprising of rotten eggs, a carrot and a turnip !! Date: circa 1910s

Background imageTurnip Collection: Kale (Brassica oleracea) and Stubble Turnip (Brassica rapa subsp)

Kale (Brassica oleracea) and Stubble Turnip (Brassica rapa subsp. rapa) crop, field for grazing by dairy cows, Cheshire, England, September

Background imageTurnip Collection: A Soviet Ripka, 1920. Ripka (Turnip) - anti-capitalist allegory on a Russian folk tale

A Soviet Ripka, 1920. Ripka (Turnip) - anti-capitalist allegory on a Russian folk tale. Soviet propaganda poster by Dmitry Moor (Orlov)

Background imageTurnip Collection: Fresh purple kohlrabi with leaves

Fresh purple kohlrabi with leaves

Background imageTurnip Collection: Raw swede on white background

Raw swede on white background

Background imageTurnip Collection: Purple baby turnips, close-up

Purple baby turnips, close-up

Background imageTurnip Collection: Root vegetables and goats cheese salad served on square plate with fork

Root vegetables and goats cheese salad served on square plate with fork

Background imageTurnip Collection: Four turnips

Four turnips

Background imageTurnip Collection: Collection of fresh vegetables

Collection of fresh vegetables

Background imageTurnip Collection: Planting out turnip seedlings in their plugs, close-up

Planting out turnip seedlings in their plugs, close-up

Background imageTurnip Collection: Four ripe Turnips Primizza surrounded by leaves, close-up

Four ripe Turnips Primizza surrounded by leaves, close-up



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"Exploring the Rich History and Versatility of Turnips: From Victorian Botanical Illustrations to Italian Donkeys Carrying Root Crops" Turnip, a humble yet fascinating vegetable, has been an integral part of our culinary journey for centuries. Its roots run deep in both history and culture, as depicted in Victorian botanical illustrations that beautifully capture its essence among other root crops and vegetables. Intricate drawings showcase the vibrant colors and unique shapes of turnips alongside fruits and berries from the garden. These illustrations transport us back to a time when nature's bounty was celebrated through art. But they are not just limited to artistic representations; they have also found their way into human imagination. A peculiar image emerges with a human figure made entirely out of vegetables, where turnips play a vital role in creating this intriguing masterpiece. Venturing beyond artistry, we find ourselves in Messina, Italy - witnessing donkeys carrying bundles of turnips. This charming scene highlights how this versatile vegetable has been utilized across different cultures throughout history. Ulisse Aldrovandi's plate published during the 16th century showcases his meticulous study on turnips' anatomy and characteristics. His work sheds light on the scientific exploration surrounding these root crops during that era. The historical significance continues with Curius Dentatus refusing bribes from Samnites while surrounded by baskets filled with various produce - including turnips. This depiction symbolizes integrity triumphing over temptation even amidst abundance. Delving deeper into its life cycle, we discover germination processes captured under microscopic lenses – revealing intricate details about pollen formation within turnip plants. Moving away from scientific observations, we stumble upon "The Turnip Field, " an enchanting painting that transports us to vast landscapes adorned with rows upon rows of flourishing greenery – each one promising delicious harvests ahead. Advertisements take center stage too.