Children Gallery

Little Girl playing with her Sailor Doll, 1888

Illustration showing a little Victorian girl playing with her doll, which was dressed as a sailor. This image was originally entitled Now Geraldine Maude, attend to me: I won't have any stuff about marrying for love. It doesn't matter about Eliza; She's going to sell the War Cry'. and was part of a collection of sketches by Emily Lees called Little Mothers

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

See-saw on an Easter Egg with the Easter Bunny

A rather splendid symbolism-packed Easter card, with two children, a boy and a girl, playing on a see-saw balanced on a giant Easter egg. The Easter bunny is sitting at the fulcrum and colourful (yet smaller) Easter eggs surround them

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

1909, Balanced, Bunny, Children, Colourful, Customs, Easter, Egg, Eggs, Fulcrum, Giant, Girl, Historical, History, Paques, Playing, Season, Seasonal, See Saw, Sitting, Smaller, Surround, Symbolism

Jack and Jill by Florence Hardy

Two children dressed in clown and Pierrot costumes, play in the snow with a sledge. The little girl, wearing neck ruff and holding a muff to keep her hands warm waves a sprig of holly in the air

© Mary Evans/Peter & Dawn Cope Collection

Child Hood, Children, Christmas, Clown, Costume, Costumes, Dress, Fancy, Florence, Friendship, Fun, Hardy, Historical, History, Holly, Jack, Jill, Muff, Nostalgia, Nursery, Pierrot, Play, Rhyme, Ruff, Sledge, Sledging, Snow, Snowy, Sprig, Toboggan, Tobogganing, Warm, Winter