Fantasy Collection (page 14)

French beauty - studio pose wrapped in pale fabric Date: circa 1905

Art Nouveau - pretty girl kissing a white dove
Art nouveau postcard design by Nini Hager (Raphael Kirchner using his wifes name for certain works) - A pretty girl kissing a white dove Date: circa 1900

Art Nouveau - pretty girl kisses a green serpent
Art nouveau postcard design by Nini Hager (Raphael Kirchner using his wifes name for certain works) of a beautiful girl kissing a serpent. Date: circa 1900

Art Nouveau - pretty girl blowing bubbles
Fantastic Art Nouveau postcard - pretty blonde girl wearing a flowing red dress blowing bubbles. Date: circa 1900

Art Nouveau - pretty Spring girl with watering can
A pretty girl walks amid the spring blossom holding a watering can in this stylised scene with heavy art nouveau overtones, possibly by the famous Austrian illustrator, Raphael Kirchner

En route to Constantinople -WWI
Propaganda postcard from early WWI era, showing British and French navy vessels aproaching (and assaulting) the walls of Constantinople, Turkey. Date: 1915

Smart gentleman raises a toast to the moon / personification of nightime Date: circa 1904

A fantasy illustration of pre-historic reptiles
Illustration entitled The Age of Reptiles, by John Martin for Geology for Beginners by G. F. Richardson (1842)

Sea-serpent attacking a vessel
Fig 67 from Mythical Monsters, 1886 by Charles Gould

Odontoceti (suborder), toothed whale
Sailors throwing barrels from a ship to conciliate two whales. Page 217 from Curious Creatures in Zoology (1890) by John Ashton

Happy fantasy. Plate 12 of Proverbs
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). Happy fantasy. Plate 12 of Proverbs, etching, aquatint and drypoint. Engraving

Childrens fantasy

Pixies playing a kind of tennis

A wagon laden with remarkable giant cabbages
Giant Cabbages - freshly picked..... Possibly a bit of creative photography, although you never know....! Date: 1910

Drawn from the Wood by Jack Gordge
A young woman flees from a wood, pursued by a satyr or faun. Pan and associated motifs were very popular during the 1920s and numerous illustrations appeared in magazines

The aquarium

Sea Urchins by Charles Robinson
Lovely illustration showing two girls in pretty swimsuits finding a small baby in a rock pool. Date: 1927

The Butterfly on the Wheel by Nick
A couple in fancy dress, the lady in a butterfly costume, ride together on a motorcycle through the night sky. The bikes number plate reads, I LUV U. Date: 1927

Two ladies in a flower car, one of whom is throwing blooms to people as they pass. There seems to be one thing lacking from this picture however - where is the driver?? Date: circa 1900s

The Rainbow Factory by Charles Robinson
Sublime illustration by Charles Robinson showing a multitude of small people manufacturing rainbows in a lush fantasy setting. Date: 1926

The New Man in the Moon by S. Longley
A demure Columbine sits in the branches of a tree with her Pierrot who stares at her adoringly under a moonlit, starry sky. Date: 1924

Grotesque puppeteer
A rather grotesque and gigantic puppeteer performs a lewd puppet show for an equally lewd looking audience of considerably smaller people. Date: 1919

Spring Voices - A K Macdonald
Spring Voices by A. K. Macdonald. A glamorous young lady (taking a stroll through the park on her way home from a serious hat-purchasing spree)

The Star That Would Not Light by Hugh Williams
A group of child like angels gather together in the night sky but try as they might, they cannot get one lone star to light and twinkle. Date: 1926

The Truth About Grown-Ups by William Heath Robinson
A baby, who should really be fast asleep in his cot, instead regales a gathered group of elves and pixies in his bedroom with tall tales about the deeds of his parents

Fantasy Fishing
Two groups of fishermen make a couple of record catches on a North American river! These have to be the largest perch ever seen! 1903

Melodie, by Brunelleschi
Stylised illustration showing a couple in eighteenth century costume in a fantasy landscape. The woman, wearing a pink dress, plays a lute and a gondola floats nearby. Date: 1927

All Aboard for Fairyland by Susan Beatrice Pearse
A galleon sailing ship, populated entirely by chubby-cheeked children sets off across the waves, bound for fairyland. Date: 1909

A Christmas Eve Dream by Hope Dunlap
A little girl sits by a hearth on Christmas Eve, and is dumbstruck to encounter two friendly fairies. Date: 1909

Riga, Latvia - Fantasy card
Riga, Latvia - Complete fantasy card, featuring a cable car, an airship, a tram, a hot air balloon, an early motorcar, a policeman on a bicycle and a jolly black man in a suit smoking a cigar

A charm against Fairies by M. Reed
A rather alarming illustration (at least to any new parents) depicting a baby being spirited away by fairies who leave a wizened changeling of their race in its place while its mother sleeps

The Rose in The Devils Garden - Gordon Nicoll
The Rose in the Devils Garden by Gordon Nicoll Pretty young blonde-haired girl in a large white tutu and red ballet shoes, standing with her back to a stone wall

Funny Flossie Fisher silhouette & poem
A sequential set of silhouette illustrations accompanying a poem, Funny Flossie Fisher by Helen Nyce depicting a little girl having a series of surprises on Christmas morning. Date: 1911

Jewel of the night
Front cover showing a ladies earring as the moon crescent. Date: 1930

Yerba Buena Aerodrome
Plans for the island of Yerba Buena, San Francisco, U.S.A. to be turned into a harbour airport and runways for the U.S. airforce, with tunnels serving as bomb-proof hangars Date: 1940s

Greek Artistic Beauty, elegantly draped in thin pink chiffon and holding a variety of metal amphorae. She seems to have forgotten some of her clothing however.... Date: circa 1910s

Four boys playing at Bullfighting. The dead wooden bull is dragged away by a team of two piebald rocking horses Date: circa 1910s

Little girl walking across the rooftops
A little girl walking across the rooftops, on her way to Somewhere Town. first published 1879

The Nymphs by Hookway Cowles
The Nymphs An Illustration by Hookway Cowles depicts 5 women in thin revealing clothing, nearly naked in appearance, prancing through the forest with the sunlight trying to penetrate the Undergrowth

Illustration, The Queen of the Pirate Isle, showing Polly being is held aloft by a dark-faced miner called Brother Step-and-Fetch-It

Children ride reindeer by P. A. Staynes
Two small children ride a reindeer towards a rose-red city half as old as time, an illustration to accompany a ballad written by Ffrida Wolfe. Date: 1911

Sinbad the Sailor carried high above the earth by the Roc. 20th century

From Bluebeard by Katharine Cameron. Cameron was a Glasgow born illustrator and an associate of Jessie M King and the Mackintoshes. 1904

Rapunzel by Katharine Cameron. Cameron was a Glasgow born illustrator and an associate of Jessie M King and the Mackintoshes. 1904

From The Wild Swans by Katharine Cameron. Cameron was a Glasgow born illustrator and an associate of Jessie M King and the Mackintoshes. 1904

Bystander front cover 5 February 1930, artist and mermaid
Front cover masthead design by Jeffryes for The Bystander magazine depicting and artist on a beach painting a mermaid who poses willingly on a rock, powder puff and mirror in hand. Date: 1930

Xmas. Lady in moonlight. " Kind Fortune smiles, and she Hath yet in store for thee Some great felicity." - Shakespeare. circa 1902

Moroccan Moorish Market (rather a folly/fraud of an image, as it depicts an Ottoman Fountain in Morocco, even though the Ottoman Empire never stretched as far as Morocco....!). Date: circa 1910s

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