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  • A dog smoking a pipe, with 'Pears' inscribed on his collar. Chromolithograph after E. Landseer.
  • A medicine vendor selling to a crowd at a fair. Process print after C. Pears, 1912.
  • A medicine vendor selling to a crowd at a fair. Process print after C. Pears, 1912.
  • Pears' shaving soap : 12 months of comfort for 12 pence : sold everywhere : a shilling stick lasts twelve months : Pears' transparent shaving stick, 100 years setablished as the cleanest and best preparation for shaving.
  • Pears' shaving soap : 12 months of comfort for 12 pence : sold everywhere : a shilling stick lasts twelve months : Pears' transparent shaving stick, 100 years setablished as the cleanest and best preparation for shaving.
  • A collection of pears (Pyrus species). Colour and coloured engraving, c. 1817, after G. Brookshaw.
  • A pear (Pyrus species): flowering branch. Watercolour.
  • A pear (Pyrus communis): branch with leaves. Coloured pen drawing by S. Kawano.
  • A Japanese plant (kaoki), possibly pear: branch with leaves. Pencil drawing by S. Kawano.
  • A vine bearing four pear-shaped gourds and a date palm; illustration of a fable by Aesop. Etching.
  • Seven plants, including a pear, an aster and two orchids: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
  • A pear tree (Pyrus domestica): flowering stem, fruit and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1796.
  • A short and candid account of the nature and virtues of the new Iron Pear-Tree water.
  • A short and candid account of the nature and virtues of the new Iron Pear-Tree water.
  • A pear plant (Pyrus communis): flowering and fruiting stems. Coloured zincograph by C. Chabot, c. 1876, after W. Fitch.
  • A prickly pear (Opuntia species): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1800, after J. Ihle.
  • Pear (Pyrus species): fruiting branch with sections of fruit. Colour stipple engraving by A. Contardi after D. del Pino, 1822.
  • Pear (Pyrus species): fruiting branch with sections of fruit. Colour stipple engraving by A. Contardi, c. 1817, after D. del Pino.
  • The Virgin of Sorrows in the blossom of a flower, underneath an apple, a pear and the serpent. Coloured etching by Joh[ann] Martin Will.
  • A caterpillar bores a hole into the side of pear having just eaten a hole in an apple, an analogy to the voracious appetite and speed of growth of the HIV virus. Colour silk screen print after A. François, 1993.
  • Opuntia humifusa Raf. Cactaceae Eastern prickly pear, Indian fig. Distribution: Eastern North America. Stearns (1801) reports 'OPUNTIA a species of cactus. The fruit is called the prickly pear. If eaten it turns the urine and milk in women's breast red'. This is likely to be Opuntia robusta. The ripe fruits are reported edible, raw, and the leaf pads also, either raw or cooked. The fine spines, glochids, cause severe skin irritation so should be wiped off or burnt off prior to cooking and eating. Moerman (1998) reports that O. hemifusa was widely used by Native American tribes for wounds, burns, snakebite, warts (fruit), and as a mordant for dyes used on leather. Widely used, with the spines removed, as a famine food, and dried for winter use. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Opuntia humifusa Raf. Cactaceae Eastern prickly pear, Indian fig. Distribution: Eastern North America. Stearns (1801) reports 'OPUNTIA a species of cactus. The fruit is called the prickly pear. If eaten it turns the urine and milk in women's breast red'. This is likely to be Opuntia robusta. The ripe fruits are reported edible, raw, and the leaf pads also, either raw or cooked. The fine spines, glochids, cause severe skin irritation so should be wiped off or burnt off prior to cooking and eating. Moerman (1998) reports that O. hemifusa was widely used by Native American tribes for wounds, burns, snakebite, warts (fruit), and as a mordant for dyes used on leather. Widely used, with the spines removed, as a famine food, and dried for winter use. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Pears' soap : matchless for the complexion / Pears.
  • Mary Ray.
  • The special commission : Pear's soap used by all the best judges.
  • Three vignettes of people promoting the use of 'Pears soap'. Photomechanical reproduction after D.E. Wyund.
  • Cleanliness is next to godliness.
  • A boy sits on a stone with a bowl and a bubble pipe. Chromolithograph after J.E. Millais.
  • Advert for Pears' Soap
  • Advert for Pears' Soap