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  • Christopher Atkinson pilloried as part of his sentence for cheating on the Navy Victualling Board; illustrated by a pillory embellished with sheafs of corn amidst a huge crowd outside the corn exchange. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1784.
  • Bacchus, Ceres and Pomona with a cornucopia of fruit and corn. Etching by C. Schut I.
  • A cat with a mouse in its mouth is descending the stairs in a corn chamber while rats, mice and weasels are running around three piles of corn; illustration of a fable by Aesop. Etching by W. Hollar.
  • A man with yoked oxen is threshing the corn. Engraving by C. Cousen after R. Beavis.
  • Four flowering plants, including corn spurrey (Spergula arvensis). Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.
  • De natvræ divinis characterismis; sev raris et admirandis spectaculis, causis, indiciis, proprietatibus rerum in partibus singulis vniuersi, libri II / Avctore d. Corn. Gemma, Louaniensi, regio medicinæ professore.
  • A king (?) handing out alms to a crowd of people, over a sheaf of corn. Etching.
  • A corn marigold (Chrysanthemum segetum) with an associated beetle and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.
  • Green Giant Niblets lite sweet corn : no sugar or salt added : 340 g. / Green Giant Foods.
  • A corn-harvester, with a scythe and a sickle. Engraving by J.C. Le Vasseur after D. Teniers.
  • Farming: a milling machine for corn, three-quarter view. Engraving by B. Cole, early eighteenth century, after R. Blackwell.
  • Farming: a milling machine for corn, driven by a water-wheel, three-quarter view. Engraving by Seal, c.1750.
  • They depend on me for the foods they need : Alfonal Maizy Brand golden corn oil foods / Alfonal Limited.
  • They depend on me for the foods they need : Alfonal Maizy Brand golden corn oil foods / Alfonal Limited.
  • They depend on me for the foods they need : Alfonal Maizy Brand golden corn oil foods / Alfonal Limited.
  • They depend on me for the foods they need : Alfonal Maizy Brand golden corn oil foods / Alfonal Limited.
  • They depend on me for the foods they need : Alfonal Maizy Brand golden corn oil foods / Alfonal Limited.
  • They depend on me for the foods they need : Alfonal Maizy Brand golden corn oil foods / Alfonal Limited.
  • A man wearing a 'german corn plaster', which has caused his leg to shrink. Coloured reproduction of an etching.
  • A man wearing a 'german corn plaster', which has caused his leg to shrink. Coloured reproduction of an etching.
  • Two mice nibbling on an ear of grain in a corn chamber. Coloured wood engraving by J. W. Whimper.
  • People loading corn on to a horse-drawn cart at harvest-time. Engraving by J. Cousen after J. Linnell.
  • Agriculture: villagers (perhaps in Syria or Palestine) threshing corn by trampling it with oxen. Engraving by C. Cousen after R. Beavis.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: an exhibit of American food produce, with ears of corn on display. Photograph, 1904.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: a Missouri exhibit of a dome partly constructed from ears of corn. Photograph, 1904.
  • Agricultural labours: harvesters loading sheaves of corn on to a wagon, and a man and boy shearing sheep. Engraving after E. Bendemann.
  • A boy kneeling, holding a baby bird found while raking corn, with a woman and a girl, each holding a rake. Lithograph.
  • King George IV with Lady Conyngham inspecting wigs on wig-stands presented by a Frenchman; representing a disagreement in the cabinet with the 'Canning-ites' over the Corn bill. Coloured etching by T. Jones, 1828.
  • Three women are picking up the small pieces of corn left in the fields after harvesting. Etching by A. Masson after J.F. Millet.
  • A woman withdrawing her foot in outrage from the care of a corn-cutter who has pretensions to be called a chiropodist. Coloured engraving, 1793.