Apple Collection

The Virgin of the Rose Bush (oil on panel)
XIR155396 The Virgin of the Rose Bush (oil on panel) by Lochner, Stephan (fl.1442-1451); 50.5x40 cm; Wallraf Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany; (add.info.: La Vierge au Buisson de Roses; ); German

In Love
Artist: Stone, Marcus C. - Title: In Love - Date: 1888 - Original Medium and Size: Oil on Canvas 111.8 x 167.7

Hogarth, Four Times of the Day, Night
Hogarth, Four Times of the Day, 4. Night. In a narrow street leading to Charing Cross, with an equestrian statue of Charles I at the far end

MICHELANGELO: ADAM & EVE
The Temptation and Expulsion. Fresco by Michelangelo from the Sistine Chapel

Poisonous Plants
Deadly Nightshade (Atropa Belladonna); Thorn Apple (Datura Stramonium); Henbane (Hyoscyamus Niger); Mezereon (Daphne Mezereum); Fools Parsley (Aethusa Cynapium);

THANKSGIVING: CORNUCOPIA. Wood engraving, 19th century

Balanced diet, computer artwork. A balanced diet shown as segments of a pie. The pie shows what proportion of the diet should be made up of each of the major food groups

Adam, Eve, Serpent
Conveniently placed foliage conceals the private parts of Adam and Eve, of which they are about to become modest thanks to the apple Eve is inviting Adam to taste

Wassailing Apple Trees
In Devon and Somerset, apple growers wassail orchards on 17 January, with songs and a bucket of hot cider; a tree is lightly sprinkled, then the wassailers drink the rest

The Hireling Shepherd, 1851, (1948). Creator: William Holman Hunt
The Hireling Shepherd, 1851, (1948). A shepherd neglects his flock and woos a young woman with a lamb on her lap. Behind them, two bloated sheep lie on the ground poisoned by the corn

Cider Press - Normandy. Two different varieties of press at work - a screw press and a cranked masher

Skeleton drinking, X-ray
Human skeleton walking. Computer artwork based on an X-ray of a full human skeleton walking. The 206 bones provide protection & structural support, and the joints allow locomotion

Fruit fly, SEM Z340 / 0768
Fruit fly. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a fruit fly (Drosophila funebris) on an apple. Its compound eyes (red) are seen and its wings are outstretched

Naked little girl looking in the mirror
A little girl wearing nothing but her shoes and socks, and pink ribbons in her hair, looks in the mirror and says " Goodness, Is That Me!" She is holding an apple in her left hand

Lady and Blossom 1925
A girl, wearing a straw cloche hat with a two colour double brim and ornamented with a broad hatband and ribbon bow, smells some apple blossom

Apple Picking a LA Mode
Travesti costume by Redfern in which Eve is depicted as the serpent in a green dress with a snakes-head headdress. She sinfully picks an apple

Portrait of the devout John Houghton (oil on panel)
XJL211814 Portrait of the devout John Houghton (oil on panel) by Zurbaran, Francisco de (1598-1664); Museo de Cadiz, Spain; (add.info)

Thorn apple, Datura innoxia (Datura meteloides). Mexico. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Advertisement for T Walton Ltd, fruiterer -- for apple cheeks and cherry lips. 20th century

P Peeped in it

Boys Scrumping
Two boys, use a long pole, to knock apples from a tree while a little girl makes ready to collect them. The elder girl seems unconvinced regarding the legality of scrumping

Espalier Apple Blossom. McCloy, Samuel 1831 - 1904

Pick an English Apple ! the greengrocers customers are urged to buy English fruit, rejecting imported stuff

Apple - Egremont Russet - Victorian walled kitchen garden at West Dean Gardens, West Sussex. UK. September
DAD-1695 Apple - Egremont Russet Victorian walled kitchen garden at West Dean Gardens. UK. September David C Dixon Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

The Rebuke of Adam and Eve, 1740. Creator: Charles-Joseph Natoire
The Rebuke of Adam and Eve, 1740

Christ and John the Baptist as Children, between 1655 and 1660. Artist: Bartolome Esteban Murillo
Christ and John the Baptist as Children, between 1655 and 1660. Murillo, Bartolome Esteban (1617-1682). Found in the collection of the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden (oil on canvas)
3362284 Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden (oil on canvas) by Peter, Johan Wenzel (1745-1829); 336x247 cm; Vatican Museums and Galleries

The Apple by Kay Nielsen. A very pale Pierrot sits in a fantasy Garden of Eden holding up an apple picked from the tree behind, around which a snake is coiled... Date: 1932

Adam and Eves Family Tree, 1556 (engraving)
XJF476254 Adam and Eves Family Tree, 1556 (engraving) by English School, (16th century); Private Collection; English, out of copyright

Illustration of Isaac Newton watching apple falling from tree

Advertisement for Silvikrin hair products -- male and female models posing. 1959

DÜRER: EVE, 1507. Oil on wood by Albrecht Dürer, 1507
DÜRER: EVE, 1507. Oil on wood by Albrecht Dürer, 1507

Fruit-powered clock. In this experiment each apple is a voltaic cell. The apples have been connected to make a battery. Copper (orange) and zinc (silver)

Ripe cashew nut. Image 2 of 2. Native to South America, the cashew (Anacardium occidentale) is now widely cultivated throughout the tropics

Farmers making apple cider, 1800s
Farmers pressing apples to make cider, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Chevrolet Corvette Stingray

Chevrolet Camaro US USA

One rotten apple amongst other green apples

Advert / Morton Salt 1953
Morton Iodized Salt - when it rains it pours

Picking Apples 1878
A boy hangs precariously from the tree and throws apples down to the girl waiting below with their dog

The Venus of Arles (marble) (see also 31855)
XIR154098 The Venus of Arles (marble) (see also 31855) by Greek; Louvre, Paris, France; Greek, out of copyright

Le Premier Volume de la bible en francoiz historiee et nouvellement imprimee, ca. 1501. [Adam and Eve, from a bible in French]

Old farmer with dog in orchard
Farmer, Tom Herring with his old sheepdog in the orchard of his farm Walterstone, Herefordshire Date: circa 1975

Wassailing apple trees with hot cider in Devonshire on twelfth eve, 1861. A print from The Illustrated London News, (12 January 1861)

The Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve (oil on canvas)
BAL14125 The Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve (oil on canvas) by Oosten, Isaak van (1613-61); Alan Jacobs Gallery, London, UK; Dutch, out of copyright

Fairies Pick Apples
Fairies and elves pick apples

DI PAOLO: ADAM & EVE. The Expulsion from Paradise. Tempera on wood by Giovanni Di Paolo

When the ell is it going to be strawberry?
Old Bill is disappointed to discover that the latest delivery of jam to the trenches on the Western Front during World I is plum and apple yet again! Date: 1915

Apple roses, made simply from puff pastry and thin slices of fresh apples. Denisa VLAICU

Fruit basket; work of Caravaggio. Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan Painting Naturalism of XVII century, Renaissance-Baroque styles and periods, Europe, First and Second Millennium A.D

Vivien, 1863 (oil on canvas)
MAN62976 Vivien, 1863 (oil on canvas) by Sandys, Anthony Frederick Augustus (1829-1904); 64x52.5 cm; Manchester Art Gallery

Apples and leaves 1928-30 (oil on canvas)
7057375 Apples and leaves 1928-30 (oil on canvas) by Louis, Seraphine (Seraphine de Senlis) (1864-1942); ePhilippe Lissac/Godong; French, out of copyright

Landscape in Normandy: apple trees. Painting by Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin
JLJ4663469 Landscape in Normandy: apple trees. Painting by Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin (1841-1927), circa 1887, oil on canvas. Dim 0, 60 x 1m

Still Life of Fruit, Nuts and Wine Glass, 1864 (oil on canvas)
PNH356221 Still Life of Fruit, Nuts and Wine Glass, 1864 (oil on canvas) by Newton, John Edward (fl.1835-91); 25.5x38 cm; Private Collection; Photo ePeter Nahum at The Leicester Galleries

Spring (Fruit Trees in Bloom), 1873 (oil on canvas)
3468899 Spring (Fruit Trees in Bloom), 1873 (oil on canvas) by Monet, Claude (1840-1926); 62.2x100.6 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: Near the artists home in Argenteuil)

Music cover, Apple Blossom Time
Music cover, I ll be with you in Apple Blossom Time, sung by The Andrews Sisters in the Universal Picture, Rookies. 1941

VIRGINIA: PEELING APPLES. John Nicholson peeling apples, at a house in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. Photograph by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

June, from Twelve Months of Fruits, by Robert Furber (c
BAL11857 June, from Twelve Months of Fruits, by Robert Furber (c.1674-1756) engraved by Henry Fletcher, 1732 (colour engraving) by Casteels, Pieter (1684-1749) (after); Victoria & Albert Museum

Half-eaten apples

View of the Rockefeller Center and Downtown New York City
View of the Rockefeller Center looking Downtown, Manhattan Island, New York City, New York State, USA. Aerial photograph. Date: circa 1940

Brittany - Local Bretons dance around a jug of local cider
Brittany - Inebriated Local Bretons (and a pair of pigs) dance around a jug (pitcher) of local cider. One chap (left) has certainly had a little too much.... Date: circa 1910s

27 Cases of Apples from just one tree - Victoria, Australia
27 Cases of Apples from just one tree - the State of Victoria, Australia Date: circa 1908

Experiment on an apple tree. Illustration (prob. Engraving) from Stephen Hales, Statical essays: containing vegetable staticks.. Vol. I, 3rd ed. Date: 1738-40

Italy, Bologna, Still Life
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Still Life. Casket, Cup, Apples and Glass, 1909

The Borrowers

Robin - on snow covered crab apples - Bedfordshire UK 8912 Digital Manipulation
BB-2065-M Robin - on snow covered crab apples Bedfordshire UK Erithacus rubecula Digitally Manipulated Image Brian Bevan Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

J Jumped for it
From A Apple Pie the iconic picture book by Kate Greenaway Date: 1886

E Eat it
From A Apple Pie the iconic picture book by Kate Greenaway Date: 1886

If all the World Was
If all the world was apple pie; And all the sea was ink, And all the trees were bread and cheese, What should we have to drink? Date: circa 1912

Selection of fruit, part of a healthy diet

Apple blossom (Malus Arthur Turner )
Apple tree blossom and foliage (Malus Arthur Turner ) in the spring

SCENES FROM GENESIS. Creation, Birth of Eve, Fall, and Expulsion: illuminations from an English Psalter

AGRI2A-00064
Picking apples, a farm scene near Prides Bridge, Maine, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

PEXP2A-00057
Johnny Appleseed addressing a preacher among settlers of Ohio Territory. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Oak Apple Day at Chelsea Hospital
Lord Roberts takes the salute of the Chelsea Pensioners as they march past the statue of Charles II, which is covered with oak branches in honour of Oak Apple Day

Boy Scrumping Apples
A little boy climbs a fence in order to steal some enticing- looking apples: a little dog watches approvingly

Cider Apple Picking
Cider making : collecting the grass-fruit

Red apple
PPG-1773 Red Apple Pascal Goetgheluck Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way. contact details: prints@ardea.com tel: + 44 (0) 20 8318 1401

Single red apple among a number of green apples

Red and green apples

Apple tree, Sogndal, 1930 (oil on canvas)
5889747 Apple tree, Sogndal, 1930 (oil on canvas) by Tunold, Bernt Wilhelm (1877-1946); 67x91 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: Epletre, Sogndal); Photo © O. Vaering

Eau de vie de cidre (chromolitho)
3622449 Eau de vie de cidre (chromolitho) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Eau de vie de cidre. French trade card.); © Look and Learn

The Still Life kitchen table of a fruit basket poses on a table
JLJ4653450 The Still Life kitchen table of a fruit basket poses on a table. Painting by Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) 1888 Sun

Street Urchins, (oil on canvas)
985231 Street Urchins, (oil on canvas) by Witkowski, Karl (1860-1910); 61x51 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: Street Urchins. Karl Witkowski (1860-1910). Oil on canvas

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In Love with the Forbidden Fruit: Exploring the Multifaceted Apple Hogarth's "Four Times of the Day" series captures the essence of life, and in one particular scene, a couple shares an intimate moment under an apple tree during Night. This timeless image reminds us of Adam and Eve's encounter with the serpent, where temptation lurked amidst luscious apples. Apples have long been associated with both allure and danger. Some varieties are part of a group known as poisonous plants, attracting fruit flies like SEM Z340/0768 to their intoxicating scent. Even an X-ray reveals a skeleton drinking from an apple-shaped vessel, symbolizing our fascination with this captivating fruit. But beyond its dark connotations lies another side to apples - Wassailing Apple Trees is a tradition that celebrates these trees' abundance by singing and offering them cider for good luck. Additionally, Thorn apple or Datura innoxia holds medicinal properties when used correctly. The innocence of childhood is often represented through imagery like that of a naked little girl looking at herself in the mirror; however, it also serves as a reminder that apples play an essential role in maintaining a balanced diet. Normandy's Cider Press showcases how they can be transformed into delicious beverages enjoyed worldwide. Meanwhile, Lady and Blossom 1925 painting encapsulates nature's beauty through delicate blossoms adorning apple trees. From love stories to cautionary tales, from poison to nourishment - apples continue to captivate our imagination throughout history. So next time you bite into this seemingly ordinary fruit, remember its rich tapestry woven within every juicy bite.