Child Hood Collection (page 2)

Nursery Characters - How Many Can You Spot? by Pauline Bayne
Stunningly detailed illustration by Pauline Baynes featuring no less than 56 different nursery rhyme characters. Can you spot them all? If not, there is a key to the picture in Holly Leaves, 1954

Jesus as a Carpenter
Jesus helps his father in the carpentry business

Meeting Simeon
Joseph and Mary go to Jerusalem to be purified, and show the baby Jesus to Simeon, who exclaims Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace !

Jesus Helps Joseph
Jesus, as a youth, helps his father Joseph in the carpentry trade

Princess Elizabeth first broadcast, 1940
Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) making her first radio broadcast on 11 October 1940 to British children evacuated abroad to the United States and Canada. Date: 1940

Princess Elizabeth and Margaret at the British Museum
Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret pictured visiting the British Museum with their grandmother, Queen Mary and viewing with interest the Rosetta Stone in the presence of the Museums Director

Armenian Gospel. The Adoration of the shepherds. 12th-13th c. Romanesque art. Miniature Painting. IRAN. Esfahan. Armenian Museum

Bedtime by Muriel Dawson
Charming illustration depicting a very sweet little girl with straight bobbed hair and a pot belly warming her toes by the stove before bedtime

Breakfast by Muriel Dawson
A jolly little girl with brown hair and eyes sips from a mug decorated with a painting of a cockerel

A Perfect Picture by Muriel Dawson
A small toddler looks in dismay at a large blotch of paint on the front of his outfit

Twos Company by Muriel Dawson
A little boy in blue dungarees and a wide brimmed sun hat, holds hands with a little girl wearing a pink dress and bonnet as they walk together picking flowers

The Fairies Aeroplane by Muriel Dawson
Two little girls sit in a field of flowers looking at a hovering dragonfly

The Bath Parade by Muriel Dawson
Three children dressedin pyjamas, dressing gowns and slippers march in a procession towards the bathroom armed with towels and soap

Winter painted by Pauline Baynes
A boy and girl in the Victorian era pictured skating on a frozen pond. In the background is a fine slope for sledging and a dog cart, a popular form of conveyance

Boys Club, fancy dress, February 1931
Seven boys from a Boys Club in wonderful fancy dress costume. Characters include, a News of the World paperboy, an Arab, a housewife

Winston Churchill School
WINSTON CHURCHILL Pictured as a pupil at the school of the Misses Thompson in Brunswick Road, Brighton, second row, second from left, in November 1886

Five children building a snowman in a wood
Five Edwardian children building a snowman in a wood

Windblown Lady by Muriel Dawson
A little girl holds her toy doll close as she walks during a windy autumn day

Young boy by David Wright
Portrait of a young boy by David Wright, possibly the artists son, Nicky. Date: 1944

Angus Ogilvy with J. M. Barrie
The Hon. Angus Ogilvey, (1928 - 2004), second son of the Earl of Airlie, and husband of Princess Alexandra of Kent pictured as a small child with his godfather, the author and playwright, J. M

Cover design, The Queen of the Pirate Isle, by Bret Harte, illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Showing three children playing on a makeshift sailing boat constructed with a chair

Swing High Swing Low by Muriel Dawson
A little girl sits placidly in a baby swing clutching a necklace of brightly coloured beads

His Share by Muriel Dawson
A tiny child with a shock of red hair struggles up to bed in a dressing gown carrying as many toys as he possibly can

Helping Daddy by Muriel Dawson
A little girl in an apron and a Victorian style sun bonnet helps her father rake hay on a farm

All for Mummy by Muriel Dawson
A little girl with blonde curls wearing a red coat gathers primroses, violets and other spring flowers, especially for her mother

In Disgrace by Muriel Dawson
A small blonde child is made to stand facing the wall in disgrace after some apparent misdemeanour in the nursery or school room

Rock a Bye Baby by Muriel Dawson
A little girl in a charming sun hat, sits in a hammock and rocks her doll to sleep

Little Fellah by Muriel Dawson
Charming rear view of a small child in a smock and large hat carrying a rag doll rather carelessly. Date: c.1925

Cover Design by Baby by Muriel Dawson
A little girl stands at an easel and draws a very sweet self-portrait with some coloured pencils

Flowers for the Millers Daughter by Florence Hardy
A young Dutch boy climbs the steps of a windmill to deliver a bouquet of flowers to a young millers daughter

Jesus & Doctors (Kron)
The young Jesus debates theology with the doctors of the Temple at Jerusalem

Jesus Grows up in Egypt
Mary, Joseph and the boy Jesus in Egypt

Boy Jesus with Scholars
The young Jesus discusses theology with the scholars in Jerusalem

Queen Elizabeth II as a baby
Colour photograph of Princess Elizabeth of York (Queen Elizabeth II) as a young baby. She was born at 17 Bruton Street on 21st April 1926 and christened at the Private Chapel

We Care for Nobody, No Not We by Florence Hardy
Delightful postcard featuring three dancing children dressed in clown and Pierrot costumes

Boys Club, swimming and relaxing by river, 1927
A group of boys from a Boys Club sit by a rivers edge and dry off in the sun after their swim

WEYDEN, Rogier van der (1400-1464). Nativity

Moulins, Master of (1450-1505). The Nativity of Cardinal Jean Rolin. 1480. Gothic art. Tempera on wood. FRANCE. Autun. Rolin Museum. Proc: FRANCE. Moulins

Princess Elizabeth in Pram
Princess Elizabeth in a pram. The future Queen Elizabeth II in a pram pushed by her nanny Clara Knight and accompanied by her grandfather, King George V

Royal Wedding 1923 - Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (1900-2002), later Duchess of York, later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, pictured in a fancy dress costume at the age of six

Queen Elizabeth II visiting Dartmouth College in 1939
Thirteen year old Princess Elizabeth and her sister, Margaret Rose, accompanied by their governess, Marion Crawford attend a service at the college chapel at the Royal Naval College at Darmouth

Princess Elizabeth by Philip de Laszlo
Queen Elizabeth II as a little girl, painted by portrait painter Philip de Laszlo. Date: 1932

Queen Elizabeth II as a child with a donkey
Princess Elizabeth feeds a blinkered donkey at the Royal Show, Windsor while Princess Margaret looks on. Date: 1939

Queen Elizabeth II as a child with her nanny
Princess Elizabeth of York (Queen Elizabeth II) pictured with her nanny, Clara Knight ( Allah ) being taken for a carriage ride. Date: 1927

Children posting a letter
Two children, dressed in adorable matching yellow outfits, post a letter at a rather remote looking postbox. Date: 1951

Children playing on an umbrella roundabout
A group of children playing on an umbrella style roundabout on Lindfield Common, Sussex, England

Four children on a beach, playing with a boat
Four children -- three girls and a boy -- on a beach, playing with a boat. They are all happy and smiling

Boys Club, mud bath, 1935
Two boys from a Boys Club, on the beach doing what boys do best; getting covered head to toe in mud

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