Christmas Collection (page 6)

Snow babies - A Christmas Carol by Dorothy Wheeler
A snow baby, dressed all in white, sits on a snowy branch, singing a Christmas carol with a robin. Date: c.1925

King George V offering thanks to the Army and Navy - WWI Christmas 1918. Date: circa 1918

Ice Skating Couple - Christmas Greetings Card. Although a UK card, it was printed in Germany and features a very teutonic-looking skating pair

Christmas card in the shape of a yule log with mistletoe. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of a lobster. Date: circa 1890s

Front cover, La Baionnette, WW1
Front cover design for La Baionnette, an issue for Christmas, showing a French soldier on the Western Front finding the baby Jesus in a crate marked Fragile. Date: 1916

Erithacus rubecula, European robin
Watercolour by Paul Barruel (c. 1970). From Birds The Art of Ornithology by Jonathan Elphick, 2004

Father Christmas in a sledge with children
Father Christmas hurtles down a snowy hillside accompanied by four happy children carrying a holly branch and wreath. c. 1920

Xmas card. Clown with his pie and ale
Traditional Victorian Christmas card Date: 1868

The Graphic Christmas Number 1926 front cover
Front cover of The Graphic Christmas Number 1926 featuring an illustration depicting party goers arriving at a fancy dress ball

Advert for Yardley Lavender 1932
Yardley Lavender, The lovable gift most welcome and acceptable of all delightful things at Christmas time. Date: 1932

Silhouette of couple giving each other Christmas presents
A couple face each other, ready to exchange Christmas presents. Date: 1930

Tom Smiths Crackers advertisement
Advertisement for Tom Smiths Crackers, by appointment to T.M. The King and Queen. Date: 1913

Christmas! Christmas! Jolly Season -- a girl and a boy out for a walk with their dog on a windy day. 20th century

Britannia and Eve Christmas 1951 cover
Front cover of Britannia and Eve magazine, December 1951 featuring an illustration by Pauline Baynes of a festive medieval scene with numerous children trudging through the snow having collected

Feeding Time by Muriel Dawson
A little girl, wrapped up warm against the cold, feeds crumbs to a group of ducks swimming along a stream

Policemans helmet with Christmas lights
A closeup view of a policemans helmet with a night time street behind it, decorated with Christmas lights

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

Queen Alexandra and Crown Prince Olav, London
Queen Alexandra (1844-1925) and her grandson, Crown Prince Olav of Norway (1903-1991), leaving the newly opened Whiteleys Store in Bayswater, West London

Pierrot and Pierrette at Christmas by Florence Hardy
Pierrot and Pierrette kiss with mistletoe by their feet, at Christmas

Christmas Dinner in an Elizabethan Home by Pauline Baynes
A Christmas Day scene in a well-to-do household around 1550, showing the father of the house at the table with his guests, raising his blackjack tankard to toast the Queen

Christmas children sledging
Four small girls dressed in matching festive red capes and with fur muffs share a rather long sledge decorated with holly, forming a very pictureseque scene as they whizz down a snowy slope

Jack Frost
A small elf, possibly Jack Frost, paints an intricate pattern onto a cold window pane, using a friendly bird as artistic reference

The Tatler front cover Christmas Number 1955
Illustrated front cover of The Tatler featuring a highly independent poodle dog who appears to have done all his Christmas shopping

The Twelve Days of Christmas, illustrated by Leslie Wood

Asprey Christmas presents, 1926
Colour advertisement for Asprey of Bond Street displaying a wide variety of Christmas present ideas, including an attache case, a shagreen cigarette box, leather handbag, crocodile handbag pochette

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

Illustrated London News front cover Christmas 1895
Girl with holly leaves and mistletoe about to knock at a front door

A Piper of Dreams
Child-like piper in a fantastic, moonlit snowy landscape, surrounded by fairies, pixies and cupids. The illuminated border shows various Christmas and nursery characters and motifs

Biscuit Tins
A selection of Christmas biscuit tins from Huntley and Palmers for the festive season of 1899

Scrooge and Nephew
Scrooge scorns his nephews enthusiasm for Christmas, saying " Bah! Humbug!"

Legend Of The Christmas Rose
The Legend of the Christmas Rose - this poor girl had no gift for the infant Jesus, so a kindly angel showed her this flower which she forthwith picked and gave him

Girl & Grandfather Clock
Is it Christmas yet ? - an impatient girl inspects the grandfather clock with her candle

Lord of Misrule C1600
THE LORD OF MISRULE leading the villagers in a festive procession

Carol Singing / Dressed Up
God save you Merrie Gentil Men

Trees, Covent Garden
Buying Christmas trees in Covent Garden market, London

Beeton 1865 Desserts
Desserts

Tree in Town Square
Candle-lit tree stands in a snowy town square

MINCE PIES
Mince Pies made with McDougalls Flour

Recipe for Pudding
Recipe for Christmas Pudding using McDougalls Flour

Father Christmas with presents
A pot-bellied Father Christmas with lots of presents

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

Cracker Advertisement
Father Christmas Advertising Tom Smiths crackers

Father Christmas / Sleigh
Father Christmas ringing a bell as he sleighs down a hill

Father Christmas stands with his bulging sack in the snow

Victorian Greeting Card - Dining Guinea-Pigs
Mother guinea-pig about to feed 4 young guinea-pigs at the dining table. Date: circa 1890

Christmas morning swim in the Serpentine
Page from the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News featuring various sketches of the Christmas morning swimming handicap in the Serpentine in Hyde Park

Satin gown by Reville
Photograph of a rose-pink satin gown with pink and grey beads by Reville, Hanover Square. Date: 1921

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