Larcombe Collection

Gather ye roses while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying, and this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying. 20th century

Ballet dancers
Art Nouveau style illustration depicting two ballet dancers decorated with petals and butterflies. Artist: Ethel Larcombe Date: circa 1910

Pack clouds away
Decorative Art Nouveau style illustration depicting two happy young girls in bright costumes dancing. Unpublished illustration. Date: circa 1910

Alphabet -- Letter W. 20th century

Alphabet -- Letter T. 20th century

Ethel Larcombe
Greeting card depicting a girl deep in thought whilst writing a letter Date: circa 1903

Design for a Bookplate
Design for a bookplate. Artist Ethel Larcombe

Childs Primer
A page from a childs cloth primer depicting a high-chair, rattle, sponge & soap, mug plate, ball and a perambulator. Artist: Ethel Larcombe Date: 1914

To Absent Friends
Heres Health to Them Thats Awa Young girl in a floral dress making a toast to absent friends. Artist: Ethel Larcombe

Pot Pourri. Young lady in a crinoline with a basket of fragrant dried plant materials and an elegant porcelain pot. Art nouveau style. Artist: Ethel Larcombe Date: circa 1910

Young lady with lilies
Lilies. Young lady in a pink crinoline and lilac shawl carrying a bouquet of lilies. Art nouveau style. Artist: Ethel Larcombe Date: circa 1910

Lace shawl
The Lace Shawl. Young lady in a pink and lilac crinoline donning a delicate lace shawl. Art nouveau style. Artist: Ethel Larcombe Date: circa 1910

Young lady in a crinoline
The Bouquet. Young lady in a pink and white crinoline holding a bouquet of flowers. Art nouveau style. Artist: Ethel Larcombe Date: circa 1910

Girl watching butterflies
Decorative post Art Nouveau illustration of young girl in medaeval costume watching butterflies. Date: 1920

Flowers of happiness - May happiness strew with flowers your path throughout the year. Goddess (possibly Chloris) strewing flowers from above. From a greeting card

Greeting card
Jog on jog on the foot-pathway and merrily hent the style-a! A merry heart goes all the day, your sad tires in a mile-a! (Shakespeare, A Winters Tale). Artist: Ethel Larcombe. Date: circa 1910

Jack be Nimble
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick Traditional nursery rhyme. Date: circa 1912

Girls dancing
Decorative Art Nouveau style depicting two young girls dancing, each with a posy of flowers. Date: circa 1908

British art nouveau brooches and pendants in gold, silver and enamel.. By David Veazey, Dorothy Hart, B.J. Barrie, E. Larcombe, Annie McLeish, Minnie McLeish, N. Evers-Swindell and M. Alabaster

Lucy Locket lost her pocket..Traditional nursery rhyme. Date: circa 1912

It suffices. What suffices? All suffices reckoned rightly: Spring shall bloom where now the ice is, Roses make the bramble sightly, And the quickening sun shine brightly

Watching butterflies
Decorative Art Nouveau style illustration depicting two young girls watching butterflies. Date: circa 1908

The night has a thousand eyes
Decorative Art Nouveau style illustration depicting a a young lady caressing her long tresse, illustrating the familiar morality poem by Bourdillon. Date: circa 1907

Making daisy chains
Decorative Art Nouveau style depicting two young girls making daisy chains. Date: circa 1908

I saw a ship a-sailing
Illustrative interpretation of traditional nursery rhyme. Artist: Ethel Larcombe Date: circa 1910

Elsie Marley has grown so fine Traditional nursery rhyme. Date: circa 1912

Goosie Goosie gander
Goosie goosie gander Traditional nursery rhyme. Date: circa 1912

Swan Swam over the Pond
Swan swam over the pond, swim swan swim...Traditional nursery rhyme. Date: circa 1912

Pat-a-Cake, Pat-a-Cake, bakers man...Traditional nursery rhyme. Date: circa 1912

Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard...Traditional nursery rhyme. Date: circa 1912

Little Girl Little Girl Traditional nursery rhyme. Date: circa 1912

The Man in the Wilderness
The man in the wilderness asked me...Traditional nursery rhyme. Date: circa 1912

Stylish young lady
Stylish lady illustrated in Art Nouveau style by Ethel Larcombe. Date: circa 1906

Glamorous Art Nouveau lady
Glamorous lady illustrated in Art Nouveau style. Date: circa 1906

Stylish lady Date: circa 1923

Alphabet -- Letter D. 20th century

Alphabet -- Letter G. 20th century

News of a fair and a marvellous thing, Nowell, Nowell, Nowell we sing. From a poem by William Morris. 20th century

Alphabet -- Letter A. 20th century

The Princess, walking along in a beautiful renaissance style dress, with a pageboy to carry her train. 20th century

Best Wishes from a lady in a red coat. 20th century

All happiness be yours this Merry Christmastide -- a man and woman carry holly and mistletoe home through the snow. 20th century

Alphabet -- Letter E. 20th century

Alphabet -- Letter B. 20th century

Alphabet -- Letter C. 20th century

Wild Roses -- a grand lady in a garden admires some flowers, watched by her young lady-in-waiting. 20th century

My Ladye Faire -- a fine lady is serenaded by a man with a lute or mandolin. 20th century

The Sonnet -- a grand lady sits in a garden, her lady-in-waiting standing close by. 20th century

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