Items matching girls (results page 1)

Frontispiece: Don’t CryMagazine of Art Illustrated (1878)

A curly-haired boy squats with one arm around his younger sister, whose face is full of sadness. The boy is trying to cofort thegirl. They are dressed as poor people from Italy, so that perhaps they h [...]

Keywords: children, grief, sorrow, costumes, squatting, curly hair, boys, girls, greyscale

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Added: 2025-07-04

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Frontispiece: A Girl’s Face, after GreuzeCassell’s Family Magazine (1889)

This portrait, an engraving printed in red ink with a border in a delicate pale green, illustrates a poem by J. R> Eastwood: A GIRL’S face where, the budding rose Of youthful beauty blooms and grow [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, girls, children, faces, poems, poetry, colour

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Added: 2019-02-18

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Girl Watering TreeA Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

A girl wearing a spotted dress crouches down to water a tree using a watering can. She has a ribbon in her hair.

This is a detail taken from the end papers of the book.

Keywords: illustrations for children, girls, children, colour, garening

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Added: 2010-06-03

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Girl with flower in flowerpotA Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

A girl wearing a straw boater hat sits and examines a flower growing in a flower-pot.

This is a detail taken from the end papers of the book.

Keywords: illustrations for children, girls, children, colour, people, gardening

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Added: 2010-06-03

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Girl digging with spadeA Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

This girl is facing away from us and bending down to dig in the garden with her spade. We can see her petticoat.

This is a detail taken from the end papers of the book.

Keywords: illustrations for children, children, girls, gardening, colour, people

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Added: 2010-06-03

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Contents heading with children looking inside a chestA Treasury of Verse for Little Children (1923)

In this line drawing the artist Willy Pogany has drawn a big old chest or trunk, with a boy and a girl looking inside while a cat (with a bow tie) mews at the boy. The chest illustrates (in a visual p [...]

Keywords: chests, contents, children, boys, girls, cats, investigating, searching, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2017-11-14

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Girl in the window: Atlantic and Pascific Tea Company 1880s Trade CardVictorian Trade Cards (1890)

This trade card from the 1880s was made as an advert for the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. It features a girl in a blue and white dress with blue ribbons in her hair resting her elobows on w [...]

Keywords: people, girls, advertisements, colour, trade cards, plants, victoriana

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Added: 2018-01-13

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Cherub delivering a love-letterGoethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

A cherub carries a rose and a love-letter to a seated girl in this romantic engraving; it illustrated a poem, and was originally a decorative initial letter I; in this version I removed the letter and [...]

Keywords: cherubs, people, girls, romance, dresses, colour

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Added: 2010-08-07

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Decorative initial “A” with girl and rosesGoethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

A beautiful girl stands on, and holds, a ros biar. She has flowers in her hair and carries a flower-basket. A fancy capital letter ‘A’ is in the top right. This is a vignetted decorative initial, used [...]

Keywords: lettera, vignetted initials, initials, girls, people, roses, flowers, historiated initials, romance, greyscale

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Added: 2014-11-03

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Girl at prayerA Painter’s Anthology (1924)

A wood-engraving (probably a woodcut) of a girl praying; she kneels and wears a nightgown, with hands clasped. Black and white.

Keywords: people, girls, prayer, hands, religion, christianity, greyscale

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Added: 2018-05-02

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SchoolworkModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band IV (1898)

A girl wearing sensible lace-up shoes, a dress, hair in a bun, is seated at a wooden desk writing. There’s a bowl, perhaos biscuits or cookies, and a pile of papers. The image is in the style of a pen [...]

Keywords: girls, people, students, learning, sitting, desks, schoolrooms, interiors, drawings, greyscale

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Added: 2025-08-28

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Young RomanceIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

A boy has his arm around the waist of a girl in the countryside, the sun close to the horizon. The picture is in a diamond-shaped frame with twigs in the background, budding to show Spring. This cameo [...]

Keywords: romance, people, children, boys, girls, hats, countryside, greyscale

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Added: 2016-08-18

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Adrift from The Snow QueenArthur Rackham, His Life and Work (1960)

A watercolour painting of a helpless little girl adrift in a rowing boat without oars, on the wrong side of the river from a distant village with a castle. Arthur Rackham made the picture to illustrat [...]

Keywords: people, children, girls, boats, water, despair, fear, villages, castles, paintings, winter, colour, illustrations for children

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Added: 2024-09-23

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SummerIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

A girl in a long formal pleated dress sits reading a book; she is sitting on a wooden chair with an upholstered cushion for the back and another for the seat; she clutches her frilly lace collar with [...]

Keywords: people, sitting, interiors, victoriana, dresses, women, girls, costumes, potted plants, summer, reading, books, concentration, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-02-11

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initial letter R with small girlArthur Rackham, His Life and Work (1960)

An inhabited initial letter “R” drawn for Mother Goose in 1913.

The letter looks a little rotated but was drawn that way as far as i can tell, and is only slightly improved by rotating it clockwise.

Keywords: letter, initials, children, illustrations for children, drawings, girls, people, inhabited initials, greyscale

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Added: 2024-09-23

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The Old Farm Gate.The Table Book of Art (1880)

This steel engraving is signed by William Collins (artist) and Dick (engraver). It’s possible this is Archibald Dick, but he died some fifteen years before this book was produced. William Collins was [...]

Keywords: children, people, bare feet, urchins, poverty, rural scenes, gates, farms, forests, trees, boys, girls, animals, dogs, bucolic scenes, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2018-11-16

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Queen Alice.Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

“I hope it encouraged him,” she said, as she turned to run down the hill: “and now for the last brook, and to be a Queen! How grand it sounds!” A very few steps brought her to the edge of the brook [...]

Keywords: alice, illustrations for children, chess, queens, crowns, girls, greyscale

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Added: 2015-10-11

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Do wake up, you heavy things!Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

“What am I to do?” exclaimed Alice, looking about in great perplexity, as first one round head, and then the other, rolled down from her shoulder, and lay like a heavy lump in her lap. “I don’t think [...]

Keywords: alice, illustrations for children, chess, queens, crowns, royalty, girls, greyscale

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Added: 2016-04-18

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It is the home comforts and fireside virtuesGems by the Way-Side: An Offering of Purity and Truth (1878)

A lady—we may assume the mother—sits on a couch, or chaise-longue, with a girl on her lap and another against her shoulder; a boy sits next to her with a picture-book. In the background, two men are h [...]

Keywords: people, interiors, children, victorian costumes, mothers, reading, books, couches, drawing rooms, candelabra, victorian gentlemen, boys, girls, greyscale

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Added: 2010-04-24

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Infancy of SemiramisLa Civilizacion (1881)

Infancia de Semíramis We see the infant girl Semiramis naked and seemingly alone in a tropical forest, with doves. Semiramis was the wife of Onnes and, after the death of Onnes, of Ninus. Ninus was kn [...]

Keywords: nudity, infants, children, girls, birds, trees, jungles, forests, miraculous events, colour

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Added: 2018-05-15

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