Hearth Collection (page 3)

For Hearth and Home - c 1914
For Hearth and Home - c.1914. Graham Wallace

The Seven Good Deeds of Bonzo (Tuesday) -- he helps to dry his mistresss shoes in front of the gas fire. Date: 1923

Rags the puppy joins cat and piglet by the fire
A Cosy Corner -- Rags the puppy joins Rufus the cat and Hungry Peter the piglet by the fire. Date: 1912

Child sitting by the fire by Muriel Dawson
A child sitting by the fire by Muriel Dawson. Date: 1920s

Nursery Rhymes -- Jack and Jill, Polly Flinders
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- Jack and Jill falling down the hill. Below -- Little Polly Flinders sitting among the cinders. Date: early 20th century

Nursery Rhymes -- Little Polly Flinders sat among the cinders. Date: circa 1920s

Christmas Postcard - Jolly Sweep delivering a letter
Christmas Postcard - Jolly Sweep delivering good wishes. Traditionally chimney sweeps used to go door to door wishing (and hopefully bringing) folk good luck

Man drinking sake before the hearth. Print shows an old man seated next to a sunken hearth, drinking sake with his meal. Date 1913

Charles Dickens immortal play The cricket on the hearth Cha
Charles Dickens immortal play The cricket on the hearth. Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of The Cricket on the Hearth at the Alcazar, 260 O Farrell Street, San Francisco, California

American agriculturist. Hearth and home. Date c1870

The cloister and the hearth by Charles Reade, illustrated with 550 drawings by William Martin Johnson. Poster shows a monk seated at a desk and a young woman seated at a hearth. Date 1893

English soprano Miss Sylva (Sylvia) Van Dyck

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

Cinderella with birds. 20th century

Dr Syntax returned from his tour
Having returned from a journey, Dr Syntax sits smoking before the hearth, talking to a lady who is wielding a whip

Cinderella and Fairy Godmother
Cinderella, sitting by the fireside, is visited by her Fairy Godmother. 20th century

Interior of traditional cottage at Niarbyl, Isle of Man
View of the interior of a traditional cottage at Niarbyl, on the south west coast of the Isle of Man. A kettle sits on the open coal fire, and a pair of bellows hang from a hook on the left

Interior, Cheshunt Great House, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire
An interior shot of the hall at Cheshunt Great House, at Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, showing a large fireplace, two unusual wooden chairs, and various suits of armour

Interior of workmans home, East End of London
The interior of a workmans home in the East End of London. The walls are lined with shelves, pictures and plates. A small cooking range stands in the hearth

Siblings playing with toys near the fire
A sister and brother playing with their playing with their toys in front of the fire. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Victorian interior - Hubert Congreve
The room in which Hubert Congreve shot himself. A young Edward Lear was infatuated with the young Congreve. A fine example of a Victorian interior, with heavily-stocked mantlepiece and fine fireplace

Cinderella dreams of a better life
Poor downtrodden Cinderella sits in the kitchen, dreaming of a better life (so distracted she misses the little birds tucking in to the supper for her evil sisters)

A Devonshire lace-maker
Lace-making was a typical cottage industry and could be carried out independently by women in their homes. The woman in the picture sits by the hearth in a cottage with a bolster-style pillow firmly

Ladies by a Fireside
Two young ladies sit in front of an open fire : should they require them, a whole battery of tools are available to poke the coals, shovel the ash or brush the hearth

Martineau / Harriet / Fraser
HARRIET MARTINEAU English writer

Denis Papin & Kettle
DENIS PAPIN French pioneer of the steam engine, depicted formulating his theories in just the way Watt did, by watching a kettle steaming in the hearth

Girl Breaks Firewood 19C
A little girl breaks firewood across her knee: a bright fire blazes in the hearth

French Bourgeois Family
Papa with his journal, mama with her sewing, the two older girls practising duets, the youngsters playing with the cat - while a log burns cheerfully in the hearth

Dickens / Cricket / Hearth
Caleb Plummer and his blind daughter sit in his workshop where he makes and mends toys. Artist: Frederick Barnard

D-B Varsity Suit 1907
American suit: D-B Varsity with broad lapels, shaped cuffs, double pocket flaps & loose-hip trousers tapering at the ankle. A tad too elaborate to be considered elegant

Trouble with the Logs
A gentleman having considerable trouble with his fire

Reading a Romantic Novel
A lady obviously keen on her Romantic novels (and her warm alcoholic beverages) remarks: " Kitty take those books to the library and change them: I m fond of the rumantic "

Child Reads by Stove
A child reads a book in front of the hot stove

COAVINSES
Coavinses Harold Skimpole stands in front of the fire, with Richard Carstone and Ester Summerson on his left

Fireplace / Bailey & Son
Fireplace by Messrs Bailey & Co displayed at the 1851 exhibition at Crystal Palace

Mother and children with Easter eggs and toys
A mother and her two children with Easter eggs and toys, in a room with a very ornate fireplace

Institution of the Vestal Virgins in Ancient Rome
Numa Pompilius institutes the Vestal Virgins, four priestesses of Vesta (goddess of the hearth) who performed sacred rites for the community

The Bottle, 2 -- Cruikshank
The Bottle, scene 2 The family pawn clothing to pay for The Bottle

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