18C Allegories of Spring - Love & Bird Nests

1785 Probably Britain. Here a young man is handing a birds' nest to a young woman. He has one hand on her shoulder as she accepts the nest.  She is collecting spring flowers in her apron. The couple is passing by another woman kneeling beside a basket of flowers and hold up a garland for the couple to see. Men are sowing grain in fields in the background to left.

18C Allegories of Spring - Love & Bird Nests

1796 Spring Published by George Thompson London

 This depiction of Spring shows a family on a river bank.  The man is holding a fishing rod and displying a fish caught on the line, while the woman opens a wicker basket full of others. The little girl stands holding a basket of flowers, while the little boy kneels in the foreground, feeding birds in a nest in his hat. Behind them a team is ploughing in the background to right. 

18C Allegories of Spring - Love & Bird Nests

18C English Woodcut of Spring

Another bird's nest with chirping chicks is gently placed in the woman's apron.

gar 1745 Allegories of Spring- In a Garden

 1745 Spring from The Four Seasons Les Quatre Saisons after Nicolas Lancret  & published in France Here in a garden with a fountain & a birdbath lying on the ground, a young man holding a spade talks to a young woman holding a basket of flowers, while another woman on the right is watering plants.

1754 Allegories of Spring - In a Garden

1754 Spring from The Four Seasons published by Thomas Major London. 

People appear to work in the walled sunken garden behind the group. A man hands a flower to a young woman sitting on a terrace with her attendant standing behind them.  A boy at right has a parrot perched on his hand.  They are in a garden with a statue of a Venus & an arch at left, through which a couple can be seen in an embrace. Plants in pots dot the area around the group.

1758 Allegories of Spring - A bit of Watering & a bit of Flirting in a Garden

1758 Spring from The Four Seasons  After Nicolas Lancret by John Simon. Here is a a garden with a fountain & a birdbath lying on the ground, where a young man holding a spade stops working to talk with a young woman holding a basket of flowers, while the other woman, now on the left, is actually watering plants.

1587 Spring Garden Lucas Van Valkenborch (Flemish painter, c 1530-1597)

1587 Lucas Van Valkenborch (Flemish painter, c 1530-1597)  Landscape in Spring

1587 Lucas Van Valkenborch (Flemish painter, c 1530-1597)  Landscape in Spring Detail

1658 GARDEN planting of Walled Garden with dog or a lion??

1658 Abraham Hertochs (Dutch printmaker, 1626-1672) Wall-enclosed Garden with Raised Geometric Beds. Gentleman & his Lady oversee the springtime work of readying the garden for summer. Gardeners at the back wall seem to be preparing the wall to support vines or wall fruit.  Dog (or small lion!!) runs alongside the masters.

1644 Gardeners carrying out plants in pots & creating geometric Garden beds inside a fence...

1644 David Teniers the Younger (1610–1690) Spring

17C Gardeners Preparing the Garden

1644 David Teniers the Younger (1610–1690) Spring. Love the Gardeners in the background moving pots outdoors and raking the SPRING GARDEN.

1673 Portrait on a Garden Terrace

Henri Gascar (French artist, 1634-35 - 1701) My Lady Anne Barrington and My Lady Mary Saniohn on a terrace opening onto a Spring Garden with statues. c 1673

17C Elegant Flemish Maypole with Garden

Peeter Gijsels (Flemish artist, 1621-1690) Detail of Playing Musical Instruments around a Maypole with a SPRING GARDEN in the background