Items matching illustrations for children

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

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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

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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

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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

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Added: 2007-12-09

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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

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Added: 2007-02-13

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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

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Added: 2007-09-05

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Initial Letter N

A decorative capital letter “N” with a child sitting inside it, hands on knees; it was used as a drop cap (dropped capital) at the start of a the poem, Snow in Town.

Keywords: lettern, initials, illustrations for children

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Added: 2007-12-18

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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

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Added: 2007-08-06

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Snow in Town

The title for this poem show a boy gathering a snowball, and some houses with roofs covered in snow, and an old-fashioned lamp-post. Nothing is quite so quiet and clean     As snow that falls in the [...]

Keywords: winter, snow, poetry, christmas, illustrations for children

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Added: 2007-12-17

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Initial Letter I

A decorative capital letter “I” with a child peeking out from behind the letter; it was used as a drop cap (dropped capital) at the start of a paragraph.

Keywords: letteri, initials, illustrations for children

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Added: 2007-08-05

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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

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Added: 2007-08-25

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Queen Mab

Queen Mab is a fairy with butterfly wings who brings dreams to people. She was described by Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet I also made a version of Queen Mab with no words, and I also coloured in th [...]

Keywords: fairies, people, illustrations for children, fantasy, mythical creatures

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Added: 2007-09-05

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