Items matching illustrations for children (results page 1)

Front Cover Vol 64Little Folks Magazine Vol 64 (1906)

The front cover for Volume 64 (1906) has a full-page illustration in colour of a large stork wearing hiking boots and walking down a country path with a girl alongside it. The girl wears a red coat. I [...]

Keywords: book covers, colour, people, illustrations for children, children

Places shown: none

Added: 2016-10-31

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Frontispiece: Charles the King walked for the last time through the streets of LondonAn Island Story (1920)

King Charles is followed by a priest, and surrounded by soldiers with lances. He wears 17th-century costume. [King Charles I] had been foolish, he had been wicked, but now, in the face of death, he b [...]

Keywords: royalty, soldiers, people, illustrations for children, colour

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2009-05-05

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Front CoverA Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

Front cover of “A Child’s Garden of Verses”, showing the wrought-iron gate into the garden, and two small children standing inside on the path. The illustration is pasted onto the cover.

Keywords: book covers, illustrations for children, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-06-02

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Snowball Fight!Chatterbox Annual (1916)

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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Frontispiece: What the sun looks like when it’s asleepA Treasury of Verse for Little Children (1923)

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, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-08-24

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Frontispiece: Why has your tree no flowers while ours are pink?The Sun’s Babies (1910)

The sun shone brightly, the air was clear and warm, and the apple fairies came up from their workrooms for their spring dance on the young clover-leaves. “But where is our little sister?” they asked. [...]

Keywords: fairies, wings, gnomes, mythological creatures, illustrations for children, trees, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2022-05-25

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White Pawn (Alice) to play, and win in eleven moves.Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

This is a diagram of a chess-board, the sort one finds printed in newspapers as puzzles, with a summary of the “game” that also serves as a table of contents for the book. I will add the table of cont [...]

Keywords: games, chess, puzzles, diagrams, illustrations for children, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-02-19

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Frontispiece: “Yes, there he sat, on the back of the winged horse!”Myths Every Child Should Know (1914)

“At length—not that he was weary, but only idle and luxurious—Pegasus folded his wings, and lay down on the soft green turf. But, being too full of aërial life to remain quiet for many moments togeth [...]

Keywords: mythology, mythical creatures, people, illustrations for children, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-07-29

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Frontispiece: She clipped a precious golden lockGoblin Market (1933)

Laura snips off a lock of her golden hair to give to the goblin fairy folk, so that she can buy something to eat and drink. But sweet-tooth Laura spoke in haste: “Good folk, I have no coin; To take w [...]

Keywords: goblins, people, trees, forests, colour, illustrations for children

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-05-10

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Title PageChatterbox Annual (1916)

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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End Papers: children playing in the gardenA Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

The end-papers inside the front and back cover of the book are printed with a repeating design of children playing at being gardeners. I have made the individual images available too.

Keywords: colour, illustrations for children, children, trees

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-06-03

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Children with their teacherChatterbox Annual (1916)

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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Boy with TrowelA Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

A red-haired boy kneels with a trowel in his hand, ready to play at working in the garden. His shorts are held up by braces, and he wears shoes and white socks; he faces away from us. This is a detail [...]

Keywords: illustrations for children, boys, children, colour, gardening

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-06-03

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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

Places shown: none

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

Places shown: none

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-06-03

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TreeA Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

A stylized drawing of a tree.

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

Keywords: trees, illustrations for children, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-06-03

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Frontispiece: Too Old for a StockingChatterbox Annual (1916)

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

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-12-09

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Goblins with bowls of fruitGoblin Market (1933)

This woodcut from the title page shows several goblins bearing fresh fruit, probably from a drawing by Arthur Rackham.

Keywords: goblins, mythical creatures, illustrations for children, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-05-10

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Garden boyA Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

A curly-haired child, a boy, is on one knee; he wears a white shirt, blue dungarees (with a well-worn knee), white socks and brown shoes. He holds a flower and smiles at it. At his feet a watering ca [...]

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-06-26

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