Rat-tail or snake radish, the edible part of the plant is the seed vessel and not the root.
A new vegetable variety in 1865. The rat-tail radish in England.
Category: 19th Century
The town and lake of Tiberias from the north.
The view is taken from a point immediately above the north-west corner of Tiberias.
View of Jaffa, looking north, 1843 by David Roberts.
Besides its authentic history, Jaffa figures in a strange mixture of Hebrew and Heathen tradition.
The ancient Greek city of Posidonia or Paestum in Magna Graecia.
Percy Bysshe Shelley in Italy. Temple of Neptune at Paestum. Letter from Naples. The Year 1818.
An embroidered mantle with a cape of very fine point d’Alençon.
A lace worked dress, in circular shape, furnished with a lace cape reaching to the top of the embroidery, of very fine point d’Alençon.
Ebony cabinet in the style of Louis Seize. Victorian period.
Ebony cabinet in the style of Louis Seize. Prize medal for great excellence of design and workmanship in decorative furniture 1862.
Women’s costumes from the Swiss cantons at the end of the 19th century.
Women’s costumes from the Swiss cantons, Unterwalden, Sankt Gallen, Bern, Valais, Zurich, Zug, Lucerne and Basel.
Switzerland. Female costumes from Berne, Appenzell, Fribourg and others.
Traditional female Swiss costume fashion from the cantons of Bern, Appenzell, Fribourg, Uri, Lucerne, Schwyz and Unterwalden.
Swiss folk costumes at the beginning of the 19th century.
Swiss folk costumes from the cantons of Lucerne, Fribourg, Zug, Bern, Schwyz, Schaffhausen and Valais at the beginning of the 19th century.
The African hog in the woods of Sitsikamma.
There is not perhaps a more disgusting or a more savage animal than the wild Hog of Africa.