Items matching children

Bas-Relief From the Entablature, Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster Abbey

A printing office, with an engraver (I think) at left, a proof-reader, a typesetter (at the back) next to the person operating the press itself, and, at right, a boy wearing tights and I think barefoo [...]

Keywords: typography, printing, children, pictures of books, books, people, furniture, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-01-21

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Snowball Fight!

This illustration, taken from the front cover of the 1916 Chatterbox annual, features a picture of a crafty boy using an umbrella to shield himself from snowballs thrown at him by other children.

Keywords: children, people, illustrations for children, snow, umbrellas, colour, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-12-08

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Children with their teacher

A group of boys and girls surround a grown-up woman, perhaps their grandmother or perhaps their teacher, or perhaps both. The children are holding books; perhaps it is a reading lesson, or perhaps the [...]

Keywords: children, people, books, illustrations for children, greyscale, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-12-08

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Title Page

The ornate title page from the 1916 Chatterbox annual. There are pictures of a girl with straw on her head, a group of children reading, or perhaps singing, to a lady I take to be their teacher; a boy [...]

Keywords: title pages, children, illustrations for children, leaves, flowers, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-12-08

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Frontispiece: Too Old for a Stocking

The frontispiece to the Chatterbox 1916 Annual shows a boy sitting in bead, wearing striped pyjamas, looking at another younger boy in his dressing-gown and slippers who has entered the bedroom carryi [...]

Keywords: christmas, children, people, illustrations for children, santa claus, interiors, bedrooms, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-12-09

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The boy himself

A sketch of a curly-haired scruffily-dressed boy with his hands in his pockets, reproduced as a wood engraving.

Keywords: children, people

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-05-10

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Title Page Detail: Angel With Whip

This vignette, or little scene, is on the title page. A winged angel stands amidst two groups of little children. One group, clad in white, have wreaths of flowers round their heads and are praying. [...]

Keywords: children, boys, angels, people, whips, punishments, bare feet

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-02-07

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Beating the boy

Mr.Choppart takes his son in one hand, and with his other hand the cane (used for loading a musket), made from flexible and supple whalebone. A colleague suggested, “Mr Choppart grabbed his son with [...]

Keywords: punishments, people, children, illustrations for children

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-02-13

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Orange Court – Drury Lane

People sit in the streets in a narrow alley; a barefoot girl carries a child; washing hangs out to dry. On our way to the City on the tide of Labor we light upon places in which the day is never aired [...]

Keywords: poverty, people, street scenes, bare feet, children

Places shown: Drury Lane; London; England

Added: 2008-09-06

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If I had a Broomstick 2

A boy sits on a broomstick and flies high over a fantasy land of tall stone houses by the sea, He does not appear to be steering the broomstick: this is the sort of fantasy where you don’t have to do [...]

Keywords: illustrations for children, people, children, borders, occult, fantasy

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-09-05

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If I had a broomstick 1

Illustration above the start of the poem “If I Had a Broomstick” showing a boy dreaming that he could fly on a broomstick. Maybe he was reading Harry Potter books? The illustration is signed K. Nixon [...]

Keywords: chapterheads, illustrations for children, children, occult, people, fantasy

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-08-06

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Frontispiece: What the sun looks like when it’s asleep

A small boy kneels between two trees in a dark forest; behind him is a brown house. In front of him and beneath him is a great cave, brightly lit by the sleeping sun, who has taken the formof a man ly [...]

Keywords: people, children, mythical creatures, illustrations for children, sleep, poetry

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-08-25

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