Fantasy Collection (page 12)

The Little Match Girl by Captain Janssen
Promotional postcard for The Little Match Girl musical by Captain Janssen from Hans Andersens fairy tale. First produced Winter Gardens, Bournemouth, 26th December 1917

Boy and girl riding a reindeer on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Boy and girl on a rooftop on a Christmas card
Boy (with wings) and sleeping girl on a rooftop on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas Fairies
A Christmas verse, written by Marion St. John Webb illustrated by Alice H. Watson. Date: 1928

A medley of pantomimes, silhouettes by Lotte Reiniger
A medley of modern pantomimes captured in silhouette by Lotte Reiniger. The six tales included are Cinderella, Robinson Crusoe, Aladdin, Puss in Boots, Dick Whittington and Jack and the Beanstalk

The Snow Lady by Mina Greenhill
A lady dressed in medieval costume standing in the snow surrounded by fairies and sprites. Date: 1920

Alice in Wonderland, Alice and a large puppy
Alice in Wonderland, Alice hides from a large puppy. Date: early 20th century

Alice in Wonderland, Alice and the White Rabbit
Alice in Wonderland, Alice sticks her arm out of the window and the White Rabbit falls into a glass frame. Date: early 20th century

Title image, Alice in Wonderland -- Alice watches the White Rabbit entering the rabbit hole. Date: early 20th century

Ministering angels, 1915 - nurses by Blampied
Illustration by Edmund Blampied of scores of First World War nurses of all different nationalities and sections, descending a staircase. Date: 1915

A Jazz Dream - dancing couple, 1919
A couple dance closely together to jazz music, while an imaginary cavalcade of pans, satyrs and cherubs provide the musical backdrop. Date: 1919

Christmas fantasy. Santa & children on a train. German. Date: 1906

Once Upon a Time - a sketch by Claude Shepperson
Two nymphs sit and watch a group of fauns and magical creatures happily play. Date: 1918

Fairies by Michael Macready
An elegant fairy sits on a toadstool surrounded by small imps or elves, while a large moon can be seen to be rising on the crest of a hill. Date: 1918

A Fashion Phantasy by Mackenzie
" Danse de Chapeaux" - an elegant, monochrome illustration by Douglas Mackenzie showing a woman in a revealing outfit and large hat, dancing en pointe with several hats on stands. Date: 1918

An aerial Kings Cross: a vision of Londons air terminus, 1
A suggested central London air terminus at Kings Cross, combined with a railway, road goods terminus and a large station for motor coaches and omnibuses

A wasted life: satire on the invention of tanks, WW1
Kaiser Wilhelm II chides Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and aircraft manufacturer, for not inventing anything useful, like the armoured tanks of the allies. Date: 1916

Light luncheons by W H Robinson
Couple having a picnic by sitting on the bonnet and boot of the car, and using the flat roof as the table. 1919

Actor playing Elizabethan character in The Road to Yesterday
An unnamed actor playing the role of an Elizabethan character (Sir Johut?) in The Road to Yesterday, a fantasy play by Beulah Marie Dix, later adapted into a silent film

New Hollywood Theater, Hollywood, California, USA
The planned (but never built) New Hollywood Theater, Hollywood, California, USA. Date: 1920

Greetings card with cherubs watering heart flowers
Christmas and New Year card featuring a jolly scene as winged cherubim water heart flowers with green watering cans. Date: circa 1910s

Polar bears celebrate Peary reaching the North Pole
Dancing Polar Bears raise glasses of champagne and toast Robert Edwin Peary, Sr. (18561920), the American explorer who claimed to have led the first expedition, on April 6th 1909

The Tatler, Season Number 1926
Cover of The Tatlers Seasons Number for May 1926, featuring an illustration by Jean Gabriel Domergue of an elegant woman blowing up balloons or bubbles. Date: 1926

Europe to America in 45 minutes by G. H. Davis
Not a Wellsian fantasy, but an actual project in preparation by Germany: Europe to America in 45 minutes. Drawings of a long-range rocket designed in Germany during the Second World War

The Flotsam & Jetsam of the Sea by Charles Robinson
Beautiful illustration by Charles Robinson showiong a sailor and a lady friend peering over the edge of a ship to see a bevy of beautiful mermaids in the sea below. Date: 1939

Two sprites playing a violin and a flute
A butterfly dances to the music played by two sprites playing a violin and a flute

Illustration, A Midsummer Nights Dream -- probably not connected to the Shakespeare play, but depicting a sailor asleep on a ship, dreaming of a mermaid in the water. Date: July 1914

Chocolate box design, 18th century scene
Chocolate box design, featuring three 18th century people in a fantasy scene. Date: 20th century

Chocolate box design, lady by lily pond
Chocolate box design, showing a lady in a yellow dress standing by a purple and gold lily pond. Date: 20th century

Nursery Rhymes -- goblin and bats, bird stealing pipe
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- a goblin and bats flying about the night sky by moonlight. Below -- a bird steals a plump mans pipe. Date: early 20th century

Nursery Rhymes -- daffodil lady, giant on sea shore
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- a lady dressed as a daffodil is pulled along by three white mice. Below -- an ugly giant stands on the sea shore

Snow Babies - Hold Tight by Dorothy Wheeler
Two sweet looking snow babies, who appaer once the flakes begin to fall at night, cling to each other on a flimsy branch against the light of a large, yellow moon. Date: c.1925

Bringing home some jumbo spuds
A farmer brings home a splendid crop of giant potatoes.... Date: circa 1910s

Colour illustration by Charles Robinson
Fantasy scene featuring cupid. 1923

Airship Battle
The Attila - the aptly-named flying machine of the evil- minded anarchist Hartmann - in battle over the ocean. Date: 1902

Attack on Balloon
The Attila - the aptly-named flying machine of the evil- minded anarchist Hartmann - attacks a balloon. Date: 1902

Hartmann Attacked
The Attila - the aptly-named flying machine of the evil- minded anarchist Hartmann - is attacked while on a bombing raid. Date: 1902

Anarchist Aircraft
The Attila - the aptly-named flying machine of the evil- minded anarchist Hartmann. Date: 1902

Sleeping Fox
A sleeping fox. Date: 1930s

Vincenzo Sgualdi
VINCENZO SGUALDI Italian churchman, abbot of Cassini, author of a utopian fantasy, Republica di Lesbo, published in 1640. Date: CIRCA 1640

Egyptian Fantasy card - State Telegram and Al-Azhar Mosque
Egyptian Fantasy card - featuring an Egyptian State Telegram and an inset photograph of the Al-Azhar University and Mosque, Cairo, Egypt (founded in 975) all on a faux papyrus background

South African Beauty - seated at a table pondering a flower, perhaps pining for a departed or lost love... Date: circa 1902

Zulu children arriving out of giant eggs
A very surreal and slightly disturbing postcard showing Fresh arrivals - a group of young Zulu toddlers emerging fully-formed out of giant eggs! Date: circa 1903

Female Heroines - The Russian - a pretty fantasy blonde Russian woman portrait - she is wearing a lavishly adorned tiara. Date: circa 1910s

French Fantasy Beauty in see-through drape poses dramatically in front of a mysterious landscape vista. Date: circa 1910s

Fold-out Christmas Card printed on some form of synthetic vellum - featuring depictions of exotic black children from a fantasy land in the sun. Date: 1933

Cupid Baffled - cannot believe love is not blossoming here
Cupid Baffled - he cannot believe love is not blossoming here... Date: 1907

Turkish Fantasy Postcard - Imperial Ottoman Telegraph - beautiful collage card. Date: 1905

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