Jovial Collection

In the Days of Dickens by Cecil Aldin
A coach and horses laden with jovial travellers looking very much like the Pickwick Club drive into a village to stop by a handsome looking coaching inn

Black Waiter with Thanksgiving Turkey
A jovial black waiter in America raises aloft the Thanksgiving Turkey on this Greetings card

Great Expectations: The Dickens Christmas Spirit by Matania
A Dickensian Christmas as imagined by the Italian-born artist, Fortunino Matania, who in his later career concentrated on historical genre subjects

Advertisement for Manns brown ale -- male model constructing a pyramid of bottles. 1959

Irish Drunk Pat and his drinking logic
Tourist - " I say Pat, why do you always take beer and whiskey Mixed?" Pat - " Shure, yer Anner, if oi dhrink beer oi get full before oi m dhrunk

Thessaloniki, Greece - Lemonade Seller Date: circa 1916

Bonzo the Policeman - George E. Studdy - Clacton-on-Sea
circa 1920s

Dr White Eyes Littlehampton Royal Court Minstrels
Dr White Eyes Littlehampton Royal Court Black Diamond Minstrels - Minstrel Troupe comprising Dr White Eyes himself in academic robes and holding a banjo (one eye white, one black), two jovial ladies

Weather Report - Illustrated - Breezy, A green-faced sickly-looking Gent seated by a ships rail is less than happy at the attentions of a rosy-cheeked rotund fellow passenger whos breezy countenance

Front cover of The Bright Side of Xmas by Walter Emanuel designed by John Hassall. A Pickwickian style gentleman weighed down with a generous pile of Christmas gifts. Date: c.1930

Art students at the Royal Academy school
Boisterous male art students pictures at the Royal Academy school, chatting in between lessons

Middle-aged gent with wife and Mother - Jersey
A jovial middle-aged gent (in voluminous trousers!) with his arms around the houlders of his wife and (possibly) his Mother on the beach on Jersey, Channel Islands. Date: circa 1930s

Jolly clown with a white goose. 20th century

3 JOVIAL HUNTSMEN 2
The three huntsmen encounter a millstone and are much puzzled by its appearance and whence it came

GAME / OUTDOOR SKITTLES
A jovial group of men enjoy an outdoor game of skittles Date: circa 1830

A Normandy Lad with his wares for sale - he certainly has the look of a cad or Joker ! Date: circa 1910

Jovial Italian Woman - Portrait - smiling Date: circa 1900s

Chinaman Chow-Chow
A jovial Chinese man is delighted with his bowl of Chow Mein and is about to dive on in for that first bite! Date: circa 1910

SABATTIER, Louis R魹(1863 - 1935). End of the
SABATTIER, Louis R魹 (1863 - 1935). End of the First World War. 1918. The liberation in the Place de la Concorde of Paris. Watercolour

Advertisement for a Music Shop in Vienna, Austria showing a very jovial woman (the reason for her joviality raised in her right hand!)

Jovial couple waving from a go-kart
A jovial couple waves from a go-kart on what looks like a promenade of a seaside resort, possible Seaton Carew or Redcar in North East England. Date: 1950s

Advertisement for Manns brown ale -- male model holding up a bottle and a glass. 1959

Jovial Party Goers / Sie
Jovial guests at a party. Date: circa 1908

The first World war (1918). Celebration of the Victory in the Paris streets (November). Illustration by Charles Hoffbauer

Portrait of young girl, 1788-1790. Francesc Camb󧳠; legacy. Rococo. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. Barcelona. National Art Museum of Catalonia

Suffragette Wifes Got 3 Months. A jovial gent, smiling broadly, cigar in hand announces, Hurrah! The Wifes got 3 months as a suffragette, and I can go home, when I like! Date: circa 1910

Two firemen modelling waterproof leggings
Two jovial firemen modelling waterproof leggings

William Heath Robinson with a character created by him
Photograph of William Heath Robinson (1872-1944), from a piece in the Bystander of 1924 which also included some of his illustrative contemporaries, such as H. M. Bateman and A. K. Macdonald

Robert Smith Surtees
ROBERT SMITH SURTEES writer of sporting novels featuring jovial huntsmen and bashful young misses. Date: 1803 - 1864

Happy Boys Fishing
Four happy boys enjoy a day out fishing together in a stream. Date: early 1930s

Maurice Chevalier
Maurice Auguste Chevalier (188811972) - French actor, Cabaret singer and entertainer. Date: circa 1932

Belly Cold - Chinese man causes linguistic confusion
Chinese man causes linguistic confusion... " Belly cold today, miss!" " Well - why don t you tuck your shirt in?" Date: circa 1940

Phil May as the Joker riding off on a mule into the sunset
Phil May as the Joker / Court Jester riding off on a mule into the sunset Date: circa 1900

Countryfolk Insult
" Ow much for the Moke (Donkey) Billie? " I didn t know as yer Muvver could afford to keep two of yer!" Date: 1899

Old soak yokel in smock claiming not to have been drinking
The Squire Daughter - " Jerry, a little bird told me you had to much to drink yesterday!" Jerry - " Wel, my lady

Well, Au Reservoir, Monsieur. - Engishman abroad
A Jocular Briton (leaving French Hotel) - " Well, Au Reservoir, Monsieur." Hotel Proprietor - " Tanks!!" Date: 1896

Two Cockney Costers having a jovial chat: " Wots th row up the Court, Bill?" " Bob Smith was kissing my Missus, and is Old Woman caught im!" Date: 1892

Spain (20th c. ). Entrance of Alfonso XIII into
Spain (20th c.). Entrance of Alfonso XIII into

Sporting Gal and her horse - Thoroughbreds
Thoroughbreds A smiling, jolly Sporting Gal and her fine horse (and doesn t he just know it...). Date: circa 1910

James Buchanan whisky advertisement - Cheeryable Brothers Ch
Illustration of the Cheeryable Brothers from Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby enjoying a drink together by Frank Reynolds. Date: 1939

Royal Wedding 1947 - police hold back crowds
A row of jovial police officers link arms to prevent the crowd surging forward during the royal wedding of 1947. Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) married Prince Philip

The Toast by W. R. S. Stott
An early 19th century scene showing four jovial gentlemen raising a toast in front of a blazing fire. Date: 1936

Crashed Avro 504A
A crashed Avro 504A. One of the most famous biplane trainers, it first appeared in 1913. Used in the opening stages of World War One for bombing and reconnaissance. Date: 1914

A Field Day with Giles
A Womens Land Army land girl, with sleeves rolled up and sunhat pulled on at a jaunty angle, strides through the fields with her pitchfork accompanied by a jovial looking farmer

Jovial Judge, Winner of the 1926 Waterloo Cup
Photograph of the greyhound Jovial Judge, owned by Mr. J.L. Jarvis and trained by Mr. Denny Smith; the Winner of the 1926 Waterloo Cup

British Country Dance
Hodge shall dance with Prue Keeping time with kisses We ll have a jovial crew Of sweet smirking misses... a Christmas dance in a country home in the old days

Art / Regional / German Art
Jovial winter scene on the August-Bridge in Dresden showing crowds enjoying the snow and winter sunshine

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