Harvest Gallery

Country Round Dixton Manor, c.1725 (oil on canvas) (detail of 18102)

CHE68504 Country Round Dixton Manor, c.1725 (oil on canvas) (detail of 18102) by English School, (18th century); The Cheltenham Trust and Cheltenham Borough Council; (add.info.: Dixton Harvesters;); PERMISSION REQUIRED FOR NON EDITORIAL USAGE; English, out of copyright.
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Illumination from Hildegard von Bingens Liber Divinorum Operum or Book

Illumination from Hildegard von Bingen's "Liber Divinorum Operum" or "Book of Divine Works", in which her visions are interpreted through Biblical exegesis . Part one vision four: Symmetries: World, Body and Soul. Hildegard von Bingen was a German abbess, author, linguist, scientist, philosopher, physician, poet and polymath and is depicted at the bottom left of the page. Country of Origin: Germany. Culture: early Gothic. Period/ Date: 1165. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Biblioteca Statale, Lucca. Location 01

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Beekeeping, 19th century

Beekeeping, 19th-century artwork. Beekeeper extracting honey from honeycombs obtained from a beehive. Bees collect nectar from a wide range of flowering plants, bringing it back to their hive to store it and form honey. The honey is used as food by bee larva, and is also collected by beekeepers for human consumption. The most commonly domesticated bee is the common honey bee (Apis mellifera). Artwork from the 20th volume (second period of 1897) of the French popular science weekly La Science Illustree

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