Embrace Collection (page 3)

Island Love - front cover by Reginald Heade
Front cover of Island Love by Catherine Whitby showing a couple on a balcony gazing (a little stiffly) into each others eyes. Date: c.1950

Romance - 1917 by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
" Darling, every potato that I have is yours" (Engaged). Cartoon in The Bystander by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather showing a couple locked in an embrace having agreed to get engaged

Night-time embrace
Loving couple embrace out on a balcony at a dance. Artist: J Sala Date: 1926

Couple embracing
Front cover of Pan magazine, featuring a couple in fancy dress, holding each other close about to kiss. Date: 1920

When Three ARE Company by A. K. Macdonald
An amorous couple sit entwined in a boat on a river at nightime while a cupid watches over them to ensure the romance goes smoothly. Date: 1922

Bystander Summer Number front cover, 1919
Front cover of The Bystander magazines summer number for July 1919, featuring a back view of a couple in their bathing costumes, embracing as they gaze out to sea. Date: 1919

Children kissing
Charming photograph of two children, perhaps a brother and sister, sitting in a wicker chair in a garden and exchanging a friendly kiss. Date: c.1925

A soldier and his sweetheart embrace. Date: 20th Century

Snow Babies -- Trespassers will be Prosecuted
Two snow babies, appearing as the snow flakes fall sit on a " No Trespassing" sign and embrace by the light of a large yellow moon. Date: c.1925

Sharing a loving moment behind The Times
A couple share a loving moment behind The Times ! Date: 1916

WW1 - Cute patriotic British postcard - emulating ancestors
WW1 - Cute patriotic British postcard - a little boy strives to emulate the military feats of our ancestors, or in this case his elders! Date: circa 1916

South Africa - A Happy Couple Date: circa 1902

Gentleman not at all aghast about the Harem Skirt
" Everyone is up " in arms" against the harem skirt" ! This very contented Gentleman certainly is, although not in the way one may initially read! Date: 1912

Classic early 20th century sentimental postcard
Will you think of me, when I am away. Classic early 20th century sentimental postcard. This postcard was (interestingly, although not deliberately re)

Back from the Boer War - Scene at a London Terminus of a wounded soldie returning to his relieved family after his tour to Southern Africa. Date: circa 1901

Coster Cockney couple embracing on a park bench on Hampstead Heath. Date: 1890s

Kissing in the Kitchen - Finding a nice tart
" I found a nice Tart in the Kitchen today" ! A young man leans across the kitchen table to kiss his girl. Both are sensibly wearing aprons to prevent any unnecessary mess

Couple canoodling on a piano with the caption, Try this on your piano ! c. 1920

Embracing couple looking out to sea
A couple cuddle-up near the sea, watching a ship sail past. 1908

Spain. First Carlist War. Embrace in Vergara (1839) between Maroto (Carlist, left) and Espartero (Liberal). Etching

Therese Rampin
Laurent took the young woman against his chest. Illustration from the novel, Therese Rampin (Paris, 1883) by French writer, Emile Zola (1840-1902). Date: 1883

Couple holding hands and gazing at one another
A man interrupts his lover from her reading, so that they can spend some quality time together, holding hands and gazing at one another. c.1910

Couple canoodling on a bench
A couple pose in a photographic studio, the man gently kissing his sweetheart while she looks away a little coyly, but very pleased nonetheless. Date: c.1910

A couple gaze longingly at each other c.1910

A couple gazing longingly at one another c.1910

Kissing couple
A couple kissing infront of a giant yellow heart. c.1910

Carol Day in Florence by David Wright
Illustration by David Wright showing the character of his Daily Mail strip cartoon, Carol Day, in a bedroom in Florence. c.1962

Pierrot & pierette in white embrace
Pierrot and pierrette in white embrace. Date: 1902

Couple kissing on boating lake
A couple get lost in a kiss while rowing a boat on a lake in a park, probably the Serpentine in Hyde Park, London. 1940s. c.1945

Couple in love, 1940s
A man and woman, obviously very much in love from the way they are looking at each other. 1940s

Wartime romance
An attractive 1940s couple, he in army uniform, enjoy a romantic kiss. Date: 1940

Customs / Christmas / Games /
A vision of happy children, shown to Scrooge by the Ghost of Christmas Past Date: First published: 1843-44

Moonlight Romance
The first buss and the last bus - a back-to-earth tragedy. A couple kiss in the moonlight having floated away from the earth in a mist of romance

The Best Friend by Muriel Dawson
Charming illustration showing a sweet little girl with a red ribbon tied in her blonde hair, cuddling her favourite doll close

Mind improvement / W H Robinson
Generations of men and women have thought of dancing primarily as a means of propulsion, or an excuse for affectionate embrace

The Spring of Love
Two young lovers almost literally spring into each others arms, eager as they are, to embrace - in the Spring

Farewell! remember me by Florence Hardy
Farewell! remember me. A girl embraces her love, saying goodbye. They are standing at the docks infront of the ships. The boy is about to board a ship

The Humorist Christmas Number Front Cover
A couple, pausing momentarily on the top of a hill to admire the snowy scenery, take the opportunity for a quick kiss underneath some mistletoe hanging from a branch, as their backseat passengers

E-F Loubet / Leandre / Rire
EMILE-FRANCOIS LOUBET French President (1899-1906) greeting Edward VII at the time of the signing of an Entente Cordiale with Britain

Prairie / Music Cover
A young couple gaze lovingly at each other as they stand on a vantage point from where they can see their log cabin. Illustration for the song: " When the Moon Hangs High..."

Burns / Soldiers Return
THE SOLDIERs RETURN The embrace

Peters, Sacrifice
SACRIFICE (Julie Peters) Kisses beneath the palms - this is a romance of Kenya where, as is well known, the white community make their own rules

The Sheik / Hull Cover 20S
THE SHEIK by E M Hull

Tennyson / Locksley Hall
Scene from the poem: the lovers part

Germany Embraces Turkey
Germany hastens to embrace its new ally, Turkey

Mother / Child / Hug 1905
Mother gives her little child a big hug

ROUSSEAU CONFESSIONS
Jean-Jacques embraces M de Luxembourg in a transport of tenderness ( transport d attendrissement )

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