Longing Collection

Absence Makes Heart
A photograph with the model posed as a homage to Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder by Marcus Stone

WW2 greetings card, As You Were! Three servicewomen in uniform, a WRN, an ATS and a WaF, look longingly at an elegant evening dress in a store window. Date: circa 1942

Comc postcard, Little boys playing cards
Comic postcard, Little boys playing cards Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little girl with letter on the beach (in English and French) Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Three sailors, one with a bottle, two without Date: 20th century

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Longing to see you
On the back of the card Churchills message is Stand together and hold firm. The little girl is in her Sunday best and presumably believes that her journey is Really Necessary.Cute Kids WW2 Wartime

When the War is Over, Maggie (3) WW1
When the War is Over, Maggie -- a British soldier on the Western Front thinks of his love as he takes part in combat alongside his colleagues. (3 of 3) Date: 1914-1918

When the War is Over, Maggie (2) WW1
When the War is Over, Maggie -- a British soldier on the Western Front writes a letter home to his love, with a promise of marriage when he returns. (2 of 3) Date: 1914-1918

Governess and young child look wistfully at portrait of a handsome soldier - perhaps it is the childs Father? Date: circa 1890s

WW1 - Lonely and Longing - Smart girl in pretty pink bonnet
WW1 - Lonely and Longing - Smart young girl in pretty pink bonnet, missing her manwho has headed off to the front... Date: 1914

Longing for Past Fashion
Poor little functionally garbed, war-weary girl of 1917 looks tearfully on as belles of other eras mock her with their pretty feminine elegance. Date: 1917

Costume Blue Dress 1820S
Young woman in a blue dress with short ornamented puffed sleeves & hemline & a round neckline & a ribbon ceinture with floating ends at the back. 1820s

Ww1 Postcard Long Trail
A soldier on the battlefield thinks of his sweetheart waiting for him at home. Date: 1914

Ww1 Soldier Song Card
A soldier thinks of his family at home, just before he goes into battle. Date: circa 1914

Longing for you - Music Sheet Cover based on the Oscar Straus Waltz Dream, words by Bernard Jansen, music by Walter Dana and featured and broadcast by Pearl Carr

Bell on an envelope with a message -- Will you ring me? For I can tell that you are longing for a [bell]. Date: circa 1890s

Four children gazing through shop window
Four children gazing through a toy shop window

Girl looks longingly at her unobtainable hearts desire
A girl looks longingly and very sadly at her unobtainable hearts desire, sadly buried in a prickly thistle. Date: 1906

Thomas Hardys Far from the Madding Crowd
Bathsheba and Farmer Boldwood. An illustration from Thomas Hardys Far from the Madding Crowd

Music cover, Hilda, a waltz by Dan Godfrey
Music cover for Hilda, a waltz by Dan Godfrey, dedicated to the Baroness Ferdinand de Rothschild. Showing a young woman sitting contemplating a miniature portrait of the man she loves

Thoughts of home, WWI postcard drawn by George Ranstead
Hand drawn postcard by amateur soldier artist of the Great War, George Ranstead, featuring an idyllic scene with flowers, a country church and his sweetheart

Three Algerian Girls looking in through the window
Three Algerian girls (Zorah, Aicha and Fatma) peer in through the window. A lovely composition and fine use of natural light

Language of Stars 1918
She gazes at the moon and sees an image of her soldier love reflected in it. Three cherubs use a telescope and translate the writing in the stars - Je t aime

Les Exiles De LA Terre
LES EXILES DE LA TERRE (Andre Laurie) Exiled on the Moon, a man gazes at Earth through his telescope and wishes he was back there again

Ww1 Postcard Trail Home
A soldier far from home thinks of his wife and daughter waiting for him

7 Ravens Father Prays
The father prays while his seven sons, who have been turned into ravens, fly overhead

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