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.

1614 Spring Garden

1614 Spring Garden - April - The Months - print Hendrik Hondius

1609 Garden

1609 Month of April with garden by Jacques Callot . Print made by Adriaen Collaert After Joos de Momper

1687 Garden

1687 Spring Garden - April Minnend paar, Anonymous, Crispijn van de Passe (I), Maerten de Vos, 1574-1687

17C Garden with a Fountain

Garden in Springtime (Ver Veneris), Salomon Savery, 1604-1683