Holly Collection

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by William McLaren
King Arthur welcomes the Green Knight into the Banqueting Hall and invites him to dismount and eat with the company

All that was left of them, 17th Lancers near Modderfontein, 17 September 1901.Chromolithograph after Richard Caton Woodville (1856-1927)

Countryside Flowers and Butterflies
Red Admiral and Peacock Butterflies amid a mass of vegetation including berries, rosehips, ivy and holly

Christmas card, Rabbit and robin. 20th century

Foot guards at Battle of Waterloo
Up, Guards, and at them

Two Children Sitting on a Swing
Two children sitting on a swing in a snowy landscape

Coach and horses in the snow on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1910s

Cats enjoying a party on a Christmas card
A family of cats enjoying a party on a Christmas card, by Louis Wain. Date: circa 1900s

Christmas Eve - about 1460 by Pauline Baynes
Christmas Eve, as celebrated in 1460 with children bringing in holly and the Yule Log to be lit on Christmas Day, and other joining in a last minute carol practice

Owl and foxes carrying food on a Christmas card
An owl and three foxes carrying a roast bird, cutlery and holly through the snow on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Lady Fern, True Maidenhair and Holly Fern. Chromolithograph from Francis George Heath, The Fern Porfolio, all the species of British ferns Date: 1885

Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1906
Front cover of The Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1906 with an illustration of a young girl trying to force feed her terrier dog Christmas pudding. Date: 1906

Festive Nutty Squirrel 2
Oh what an enormous nut for such a small squirrel. Festive tableau with nut munching stuffed red squirrel nestling amongst the holly berries

Cats enjoying a dinner party on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

WW1 poster, 20th London Regiment
WW1 recruitment poster, 20th London Regiment (HQ Holly Hedge House, Blackheath), Praise for Territorials. Join your own local battalion at once. Date: 1914-1918

The Farming Year by Pauline Baynes
The Farming Year, painted in the style of a medieval stained glass window by Pauline Baynes, showing the agricultural activities of a farmer of the Middle Ages month by month

Father Cmas / Toys / Fireple
Father Christmas puts out a selection of toys and presents in front of a fireplace which has a lovely vase of holly and two candlesticks on it

Musical Angels
Musical angels fly past

Santa Claus proposing a toast on a Christmas postcard
Santa Claus proposing a toast on a Christmas and New Year postcard. Date: circa 1900s

Santa Claus riding a horse on a French Christmas postcard. Date: circa 1900s

WW2 Christmas card, Lloyds Bank, showing the white cliffs of Dover. Date: 1944

Winter painted by Pauline Baynes
A boy and girl in the Victorian era pictured skating on a frozen pond

Railway Sleeper - Marylebone Station
The Railway Sleeper series - A snoozing post young gentleman propped up against a bollard at Marylebone Station after a wild Christmas party! Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Huntley & Palmers
Christmas ad from 1944 for Huntley and Palmers biscuits

WW2 Christmas Card, Holly Soldiers
A WW2 Christmas card made in a baking parchment material. The illustration shows a marching line of holly leaves with red berries as the heads of soldiers, wearing tin hats and satchels

Christmas arrangement of holly, flowers and bell
Christmas arrangement of holly and flowers with a bell hanging above, all dusted with white powder

Christmas Carols
A mid-ninteenth century scene showing a Victorian householder with his wife and children standing on their porch listening to carol singers

The Day before Christmas: Gathering the Holly by Millar Watt
From a painting in oils made for The Sphere Christmas number front cover by Millar Watt. Snowy scene showing a 1920s family gathering holly on Christmas Eve. Date: 25th November 1929

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

Festive Nutty Squirrel
Festive tableau with nut munching stuffed red squirrel posed on a branch decorated with holly berries

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

Plants / Ilex Aquifolium
HOLLY

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

WW2 Christmas Card, White Ensign Flag
A WW2 Christmas greetings card, with an illustration of a British ship under a large white ensign flag and holly. Date: circa 1940s

Photograph of Holly Tree PH, Forest Gate, London. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Right face on view of the pub

Holly with bells and red ribbon on a Christmas postcard. circa 1890s

Christmas card, clown in snow -- A Merry Heart goes all the way. circa 1905

Cat and kitten with pudding on a cutout Christmas card
Black cat and kitten with pudding on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Girl walking in the snow with a basket of holly
Little girl wrapped up in red hat, scarf and blue coat, wanders through the snow carrying a basket of holly. Date: c. 1910

Britannia and Eve Christmas 1951 cover
Front cover of Britannia and Eve magazine

Robin and blue tit in a cage on a cutout New Year card, with holly and mistletoe. Date: circa 1890s

Girl and goose on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Snow scene with church and holly on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Nightingale, goldcrest, cinereous tit and great tit

WW2 Christmas card, dog with gas mask
WW2 Christmas card, a black Scots terrier runs along with a gas mask in a box tied to his collar. Date: circa 1942

Christmas Pudding being pulled along atop a wooden sled
Delightful Chromolithograph Christmas greetings postcard by Ellen H. Clapsaddle depicting a sizeable Christmas Pudding being pulled along atop a wooden frame sled. Date: circa 1907

Festive Nutty Squirrel 5
Festive tableau with a stuffed red squirrel about to ascend an ivy and holly berry clad tree in order to add to his winter nut hoard

Festive Nutty Squirrel 3
Festive tableau with a stuffed red squirrel perched amongst the holly berries with his nut and pine cone hoard gathered in for the winter

Father Christmas / Sleigh
Father Christmas in his sleigh

Children with large pudding on a Christmas card
Children attacking a large pudding on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Two robins with holly and mistletoe on a Christmas card
Two robins with holly and mistletoe on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Holly Basket
Flower arrangement - Holly Basket Date: 1950s

Children with Holly
Children from pre-Victorian times in colourful dresses carrying bunches of holly. Artist: Florence Hardy Date: circa 1905

Christmas Motif
Oval motif of holly leaves and berries enclosing a scene with boy and girl in wither clothing. Artist: Anon Date: circa 1922

Christmas Motif
Circular motif of holly leaves and berries enclosing the head of a young girl with a muff. Artist: Anon Date: circa 1922

Christmas Motif
Circular motif of holly leaves and berries enclosing the head of a young girl. Artist: Anon Date: circa 1922

Children's Xmas
Boy and girl carrying home a Christmas tree and holly. Artist: Anon Date: 1918

Christmastime
Bringing home the Christmas tree and holly. 'May your heart be warmed by the joy of Christmas cheer'. Artist: HKB Date: 1916

Christmas Scene
Girl walking in the snowbound street with her dog and carrying a bunch of holly. Artist: Anon Date: circa 1885

Ferns & Holly
Still life of ferns and holly. Date: circa 1908

Charles Edward Brock
Christmas postcard by Brock depicting a lady and gentleman at the garden gate, captioned by the poem: 'Be merry all, be merry all, with holly dress the festive hall, prepare the song, the feast

Robins & Holly Berries
Christmas scene depicting two robins in a holly bush. Date: circa 1920

Christmastime
Three children bringing home holly to decorate the house. Artist: Anne Anderson Date: circa 1917

Images of oxeye daisies, bleeding hearts and holly from manuscripts and their applications in ceramics, bindings, mosaic, enamel and copperwork

Holly Tree, Ilex aquifolium

Music cover, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, by Johnny Marks. 1949

Cat reading a book on a Christmas card Date: circa 1900s

Santa Claus with girl and presents on a Christmas postcard. circa 1890s

Covent Garden Market, London, Christmas Eve 1846
Covent Garden Market, usually the sight of gleaming floods of colourful fruits and fine odours, but over the build up of Christmas the garment of green in which complete transformation of sprigs

A pagan belief, that holly was a symbol of fertility and eternal life, this took place on the Twelfth Night, burning holly tree branch was carried through the village, followed by a brass band

Ethel Parkinson
Christmas postcard advertisement for Four Castles Tea depicting happy children bearing sheaves of holly and mistletoe. Artist: Ethel Parkinson. Date: 1904

Vintage Retro Christmas Wrapping paper repeating pattern - featuring Father Christmas delivering presents, a small black kitten with a red ribbon, holly and red berries, a snowman

Holly Tree

Fairy seated on a Christmas Rose with presents, Cupids, holly and ivy - Pex Nylon Stockings black packaging front

Christmas Fairy and Cupids carrying candles, mistletoe, holly and ivy - Pex Nylon Stockings packaging, blue front

Holly Tree Inn, Hampton Institute, Virginia, USA. Date: circa 1930s

Robins
Christmas. Two robins on a holly bough. Date: circa 1912

A postman wishes a Merry Christmas to a Miserly Old Man! Date: circa 1910s

Holly Mount Orphanage, Tottington, Lancashire
Girls work at lace-making and embroidery at the Holly Mount Orphanage / School for Roman Catholic girls at Tottington, near Bury, Lancashire

Music cover, Christmas Carols, with snow scene Date: 1930s

Peggy Sue, by Buddy Holly, 78prm record label
Peggy Sue, by Buddy Holly, 78rpm record label Date: circa 1957

The Mice Family's Christmas Pudding Date: 1908

Wartime advert for Dolcis shoes, featuring a festive sprig of holly. Date: 1943

Grandfather's Dream of Christmas Date: 1858

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