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  • Four flowering and fruiting plants: black bryony, herb Paris, common asparagus and butchers broom. Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.
  • A pork-butcher's shop: two butchers are working with knives and cleavers as another makes sausages, a woman has come to buy and is holding some money in her hand. Coloured etching, 18--.
  • The complete art of cookery, exhibited in a plain and easy manner. With directions for marketing, the season of the year for butchers' meat, poultry, fish, &c. : embellished with engravings, shewing the art of trussing, carving, etc. etc. etc / by Mrs. Glasse.
  • Ruscus aculeatus L. Ruscaceae Butchers Broom., Box holly, Knee Holly, Jew’s myrtle. Distribution: Mediterranean to Britain. Aculeatus means 'prickly' which describes the plant well. Dioscorides in 70 AD (Gunther, 1959) says of this plant ‘... ye leaves and berries drunk in wine have ye force to move urine, expel the menstrua, and to break ye stones in ye bladder ...’ and adds also ‘ ... it cures also ye Icterus and ye strangurie and ye headache.' Its use did not change for a millennium and a half
  • Row of butcher shops in Kabul
  • Indian butcher selling meat to some customers. Gouache drawing.
  • Adjustable bow-frame (Butcher's) competition saw by Mathews, London
  • Adjustable bow-frame (Butcher's) competition saw by Mathews, London
  • Adjustable bow-frame (Butcher's) competition saw by Mathews, London
  • A Chinese butcher. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • An Indian butcher and wife offering betel leaves. Gouache drawing.
  • A Chinese butcher. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: a Muslim butcher. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: a Muslim butcher. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • A butcher wielding an axe to slaughter a bull. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • A butcher bird (shrike) sitting on a branch of a dead tree. Coloured etching.
  • A butcher threatening a doctor with revenge for poisoning his wife. Etching by J. Kent, 1782, after P.V.
  • A butcher disembowels a sheep while a wild boar threatens the rest of the flock. Etching by W. S. Howitt.
  • A. J. Bateson : family butcher, 271 Dunstable Road, Luton : cooked ham, pressed beef etc. : always in cut.
  • Butcher's broom (Rucus aculeatus L.): entire flowering plant with separate berry and immature fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • A butcher swinging a string of sausages from a knife rides on the back of a large black boar. Etching, 1774.
  • A burly terrier with cropped ears sitting on a ramskin, beside a butcher's block. Etching after E.H. Landseer, ca. 1829 (?).
  • A woman stands behind the counter of a butcher's shop in France weighing meat on the scales for a customer. Etching by L. Lhermitte, 1881.
  • A woman stands behind the counter of a butcher's shop in France weighing meat on the scales for a customer. Etching by L. Lhermitte, 1881.
  • A battle-scarred terrier with cropped ears is sitting on the doorstep of a butcher's shop. Steel engraving by H. Beckwith after E. H. Landseer.
  • A butcher in Cairo is punished for selling stinking meat by having his ear nailed to his shop door. Etching by Taylor after S. Wale.
  • A butcher's boy, seated on a basket, holding a large piece of meat; demonstrating attention (attentiveness). Stipple engraving by C. Knight, 1800, after S. De Koster.
  • Bought of F. Grove, butcher : familes supplied, South Down, Scotch, Dartmoor and Welsh mutton, Highland Scot & Aberdeen beef of best quality : home killed meat.
  • Bought of F. Grove, butcher : familes supplied, South Down, Scotch, Dartmoor and Welsh mutton, Highland Scot & Aberdeen beef of best quality : home killed meat.
  • A butcher's boy describes his ailment to a doctor in terms of cuts of meat. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by Crété after B.A. Rabier, 1903.