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Apple (Malus species): fruiting branch with separate fruit. Colour aquatint by B. Rosaspina after D. del Pino, 1825.

The monkey was a symbol of taste through contagion by its other symbols: it was a symbol of the fall of man, which was in turn due to its symbolic association with baseness, its distorted 'similarity' to man
The text concerns Ceres and Bacchus, Roman deities of food

The five senses (Martin de Vos)

1 print : line engraving ; platemark 9.1 x 11.7 cm.

A female figure with bowls of fruit and a monkey; Eve picks the apple from the tree of knowledge; representing the sense of taste. Engraving by N. de Bruyn after M. de Vos.

Images pour la lutte contre le SIDA

1 print : silk screen print, printed in colours ; sheet 84.1 x 59.4 cm.

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.

A flowering apple tree branch. Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after Guenébeaud.

1 print : etching with aquatint, with watercolour

A wine apple (Malus pumila cv.): entire and sectioned fruit. Coloured etching with aquatint by J. & J. Parkin, c. 1836, after C. Harrison.

The light divides its rays into light and dark. The animal world resonates with the transgression (in all the previous prints in this series it had been mute, expectant and observant): in the bottom-right hand corner a dog howls and a lion roars. The vulture screeches in the direction of the accursed couple. The shame at nakedness is rather undermined by the fact that it is only in the previous print that the couple have appeared naked; throughout the rest of Ridinger's series they are modestly attired in swathes of undergrowth

1 print : etching, with line engraving ; platemark 39.5 x 54.6 cm

Adam and Eve cover their nakedness as God makes his wrath felt in the Garden of Eden. Etching by J.E. Ridinger after himself, c. 1750.

Eve picks the apple from the tree as the serpent emerges. Etching by J.E. Ridinger after himself, c. 1750.

Label probably for a large tin. Printed on white paper. Two red apples with leaves are depicted above a white oval with the Materne logo on bands of turquoise, grey and black.

Food Ephemera : Fruit. Box 1

1 broadside : color illustrations ; 16 cm

Solid pack pie apples : peeled and cored, just ready for use : Materne / S.A. Jambes.

A fruit farmer accompanied by his bulldog finds a boy trespassing on a branch of one of his apple trees. He tells the dog Pincher to watch the boy. He goes away and comes back with a whip and a rope. With the rope he pulls the branch down. The boy falls down on top of the farmer, and the farmer falls down on top of the bulldog. In the final slide, the farmer and the bulldog recover from their accident, the farmer's wife rushes to help, and the boy is seen sitting on the wall enjoying his stolen fruit

8 photographs : transparencies, coloured ; each 8.2 x 8.2 cm

The story of "Watch him, Pincher". Coloured magic lantern slides.

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 127.4 x 90 cm

Left, an apple, in colour; right, an old instrument for extracting teeth, in black and white; representing the benefits of prevention of tooth decay. Colour lithograph, 196-.

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Apple (Malus species): fruiting branch with separate fruit. Colour aquatint by B. Rosaspina after D. del Pino, 1825.

A female figure with bowls of fruit and a monkey; Eve picks the apple from the tree of knowledge; representing the sense of taste. Engraving by N. de Bruyn after M. de Vos.

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.

A flowering apple tree branch. Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after Guenébeaud.

A wine apple (Malus pumila cv.): entire and sectioned fruit. Coloured etching with aquatint by J. & J. Parkin, c. 1836, after C. Harrison.

Adam and Eve cover their nakedness as God makes his wrath felt in the Garden of Eden. Etching by J.E. Ridinger after himself, c. 1750.

Eve picks the apple from the tree as the serpent emerges. Etching by J.E. Ridinger after himself, c. 1750.

Solid pack pie apples : peeled and cored, just ready for use : Materne / S.A. Jambes.

The story of "Watch him, Pincher". Coloured magic lantern slides.

Left, an apple, in colour; right, an old instrument for extracting teeth, in black and white; representing the benefits of prevention of tooth decay. Colour lithograph, 196-.

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Apple (Malus species): fruiting branch with separate fruit. Colour aquatint by B. Rosaspina after D. del Pino, 1825.

A female figure with bowls of fruit and a monkey; Eve picks the apple from the tree of knowledge; representing the sense of taste. Engraving by N. de Bruyn after M. de Vos.

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.

A flowering apple tree branch. Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after Guenébeaud.

A wine apple (Malus pumila cv.): entire and sectioned fruit. Coloured etching with aquatint by J. & J. Parkin, c. 1836, after C. Harrison.

Adam and Eve cover their nakedness as God makes his wrath felt in the Garden of Eden. Etching by J.E. Ridinger after himself, c. 1750.

Eve picks the apple from the tree as the serpent emerges. Etching by J.E. Ridinger after himself, c. 1750.

Solid pack pie apples : peeled and cored, just ready for use : Materne / S.A. Jambes.

The story of "Watch him, Pincher". Coloured magic lantern slides.

Left, an apple, in colour; right, an old instrument for extracting teeth, in black and white; representing the benefits of prevention of tooth decay. Colour lithograph, 196-.

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