Joyful Collection

FALL / CRUFTS WINNER / 1930
LUCKY STAR OF WARE Breed: Cocker Spaniel Owned by H. S. Lloyd Bred by M. Ottley Blue roan, born 15.09.28 Sired by Joyful Joe Date: 1930 - 1931

A group of happy schoolgirls wearing Spanish tartan skirts
A group of delighted schoolgirls sit on a wall and look off camera at something that surprises them and makes them smile. They all wear Spanish tartan skirts. Date: circa 1987

WW2 - It Was Them Who Cheered Us Up
A photograph of a joyful woman pouring drinks for some troops, leaning out the windows of a Dunkirk evacuation train. Date: circa 1944

At The Seaside, Lincolnshire
A photograph showing a large bunch of joyful figures enjoying their day in the shallow sea waters, on the coast in Lincolnshire

The Joyful Forest
A detailed, humorous illustration shows an incredibly busy forest scene in which a large variety of happy creatures are mischeviously toying with the artist who is just trying to paint a picture

Dancing Women
A coloured chalk drawing of some joyful women, dancing and playing flutes, wearing minimal, patterned costumes. Date: circa 1917

The Duke and Duchess of Kent, children, domestic portrait
The Duke and Duchess of Kent with their children, domestic portrait captioned Home on Leave'. With description Their Royal Highnesses The Duke And Duchess Of Kent were able, last week

Music cover, Joyeuse Entree, march for piano by Alidor Thiry, celebrating the triumphant entry of King Albert of Belgium into Brussels, 23 December 1909 Date: 1909

Photograph of Joyful Whippet PH, Lancing, Sussex. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Left Face on view of the pub

The Wiesenthal Sisters, appearing at London Hippodrome
The embodiment of joy, the three Wiesenthal sisters, Grete, Elsa and Berta, demonstrating their carefree and ecstatic form of dance

1930s woman walking dog - Daimler car
A woman in a red suit joyfully talking her wire-haired fox terrier for a walk. No wonder shes so carefree. That car is a Daimler. Date: 1936

Six Little Camping Girls Going Down to Bathe, Wallis Mills
Six girls on a camping trip make a jolly sight as they skip down to the beach in colourful pyjamas to bathe. Date: 1929

Music cover, Away Now Joyful Riding (Trab, Trab, Trab), love song sung by Mademoiselle Jetty Treffz. 19th century

Angel Musicians

A boy holds an egg in one hand and his pet hen in the other
A boy sits up in bed, He holds an egg in one hand and his pet hen by the tail feathers in the other. The hen regularly laid eggs in the boys bed

Man with fish, Bangkok
A man with tattooed arms and chest smiles happily after catching a fish for his dinner in a Bangkok canal, Thailand Date: circa 1985

Eggs in bed hen
Boy with pet hen that laid eggs in his bed, Abergavenny, Wales. First published The Sunday Express Date: circa 1969

Duttons Brewery Advertisement - Oh Be Joyful - Strong Ale, Blackburn, near, Lancashire, England. How I cured the Flu Date: 1910s

Arabesque design in sepia on a Christmas card -- Joyful be your Christmas. Date: circa 1890s

Clown with red heart on a Valentine postcard -- My heart is joyful when I think of you. Date: circa 1890s

Father Christmas with children
A Merry Xmas - Here is Every Joy! Three children in their nightwear aid Father Christmas in his delivery of presents by pulling on the belt of his cloak. Date: c.1920

Music cover, Joie du Matin Valse
Music cover, Joie du Matin (Morn of Delight) Valse by Victor Vorzanger. 1914

Tails Up by George Studdy, WW1 victory cartoon
A joyful dog enthusiastically wags his tail, and, in the process, a Union Jack flag, in celebration at the end of the First World War

Sphere cover - German retreat from Lille, 1918
Front cover of The Sphere featuring an illustration by Fortunino Matania showing a scene in Lille when the British finally recaptured the town from the retreating Germans in October 1918

Decca Gramophone advertisement, post war
Advertisement for the Decca gramophone, showing a jolly party with some men in khaki uniform and some in evening dress dancing with girls

Parents visit evacuated children, WWII
A little girl, an evacuee in a Sussex village, runs delightedly towards her mother, who has come to visit her daughter on a coach trip from Peckham, South East London. Date: 1939

Two scruffy street boys discuss lowering of income tax
Joyful News. " Ow, I sy Billie, Fader says there ll be a penny off de income-tax nex Year." Date: 1895

Jesus Nativity (Caxton)
A seated monk contemplates the infant Jesus in the stable, while an angel tells the shepherds the joyful news. Date: 1st century

Little Miss Frolic by Muriel Dawson
Charming illustration showing a little girl from the back wearing a green smock dress with matching bloomers and a white sun bonnet

Warm welcome for British Calvalry men
Kisses from grateful women for gallant men. British cavalry men are greeted by joyful French women in the village of Monchy in France after the battle of Arras

Christmas mail arriving in the trenches 1916
Front cover photograph from The Sphere, December 1916 showing a joyful soldier in a trench laden with Christmas parcels

Armistice Week Rejoicings in the West End
A scene at Piccadilly Circus in central London giving an impression of victory celebrations at the end of World War I. Various soldiers join civilians

Joyful Banquet 1549
A joyful banquet in full swing offers plenty of food and wine for all

Month / July
Je suis joyeux a peu de plet [the joyful month]

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