Love Collection (page 2)

A boy away from home by Florence Hardy
Where beauty moves, and wit delights, and signs of kindness bind me, There, oh! there, where er I go, I leave my heart behind me

Gentlemans courtesans
Close up detailing the lock of a gentlemans private book of photographs of courtesans, some of whom he may very well have visited

Ws Gilbert / Sambourne
WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT English playwright and collaborator with Sullivan, satirised for his love of the sea and sailing

Prostitute / Cora Pearl
Cora Pearl, alias Emma Crouch, courtesan

Lesbian Sisters 1905
Two lesbian sisters gaze into each others eyes. Date: 1905

X-X-X-X-Xmas by J. Gordge
Two lovers dressed as Columbine and Harlequin prepare for a romantic kiss at what looks to be a deserted party

Wedding Bells of the 1913 Season Freda Dudley Ward
Winifred Birkin on her wedding day arriving at St. Margaret s, Westminster for her marriage to William Dudley Ward. Winifred, better known as Freda Dudley Ward (1894-1983)

The ballerina Emilie Bigottini 1784-1858 dancing in the opera Nina, o sia la pazza per amore (Nina or the girl driven mad by love) by Giovanni Paisiello at the Opera Theatre, Paris, 1816

The Humorist - Easter Number front cover, Heath Robinson
Spring Handicaps. Front cover of The Humorist magazine featuring a glorious cartoon by William Heath Robinson showing the chaos created on the roads by spring romances. Date: 1937

Universal Rescue Mission Caravan - E. H. Smith of Sheffield
Universal Rescue Mission Caravan and its owner, Mr E. H. Smith of Sheffield (on the right) - a local Christian Evangelical preacher, known as the Blind Evangelist

Music cover, When I Fall in Love, Nat King Cole
Music cover, When I Fall in Love, music by Victor Young, words by Edward Heyman, recorded by Nat King Cole on Capitol Records. 1952

Portrait of a Couple, c. 1622, by Frans Hals (c. 1582-1666)
Frans Hals (c. 1582-1666). Dutch painter. Portrait of a Couple, probably Isaac Abrahamsz Massa and Beatrix van der Laen, c. 1622. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

Pierre Auguste Cot (1837-1883). Spring, 1873
Pierre Auguste Cot (1837-1883). French painter. Spring, 1873. Oil on Canvas. Metropolitan Museum. New York. United States

Rebus: a hieroglyphic love letter
O sweet sophy, You are to me the only joy under the sun. I cannot rest but in your arms, my dear esteemed soul. You are in my heart above all others. I on my knees implore your hand

Greek Statue of Aphrodite, Pan and Eros
Greek Marble Statue of Aphrodite, Pan and Eros - circa 100BC, found at Delos Date: circa 100BC

Saucy and silly seaside postcard with cheeky caption
A Young man heads out to sea in a small rowing boat named the Saucy Sue - she instructs him: " Mind you don t goo too far, Darling!

Eros and Psyche, by Canova
Eros and Psyche, close-up of the sculpture by Antonio Canova, Louvre Museum, Paris Date: circa 1910s

Mr Peggotty and Little Emily - David Copperfield, Dickens
Mr Peggotty and Little Emily - David Copperfield, Charles Dickens. Date: circa 1910s

Saucy Postcard - Lady lovers bemoan (?) bad weather
Saucy Seaside Postcard - Two lady lovers bemoan (?) the bad weather, which opens up new opportunities for fun... Date: 1946

Thumbelina flies off with her Fairy Prince
Thumbelina meets the Fairy Prince and flies off with him, and they live Happily Ever After. Illustration to a fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen, first published 1835

My love is like a red, red rose by Florence Hardy
My love is like a red, red rose. A yong dutch boy hands his love a bunch of red roses from the boat he is in

O wilt thou be my Valentine? by W. Heath Robinson
Tableau staged by a member of the Stock Exchange as a pleasant surprise on Valentines Day. Man dressed as cupid on grandfather clock Please note

Dog and owner reunited in the trenches, France
Private Brown of the North Staffordshires, in the trenches in France, is found by his pet terrier dog which has made its way, alone, from his home in Hammersmith, West London

Clark Gable with Joan Crawford in Love on the Run 1936
Clark Gable with Joan Crawford in Love on the Run a romantic comedy film. Date: 1936

Advertisement for Silvikrin hair products -- male and female models posing. 1959

WWI - Wounded soldier in the arms of his nurse
WWI - Wounded soldier (who has lost his arm) in the arms of his nurse - Comrades in Arms. Date: circa 1917

Statue of Eros
The famous statue of the Greek god of love, Eros, Piccadilly Circus, London, was sculpted by Alfred Gilbert in 1893. It was originally called the Shaftesbury Monument. Date: 1893

The Studdy Dog - Somebody Cares by George Studdy
The Studdy Dog, later known as Bonzo, appearing as an example of animal caricatures in an article in The Strand magazine. This particular dog appears to be getting ready to post a love letter

Burma (Myanmar) - Traditional Costume (2 / 4)
Burma (Myanmar) - Traditional Costume (2/4) Burmese courtship - a young man wearing a headscarf holding a large cigar chats up a coy young Burmese girl, leaning against a palm tree

Burma (Myanmar) - Traditional Costume (3 / 4)
Burma (Myanmar) - Traditional Costume (3/4) A Burmese man and his girl, with whom he converses over a low stone wall, whilst holding onto her hand

Comic Sex / Squeeze Seat
" Do you think you could squeeze me in a seat?" "... it would be better in the park after the show!"

Couple at Opera C1875
Anticipation: an engaged couple in their box at the opera - she is still wondering whether he loves her

Lesbian Couple Chatting
Two young women, one in her underclothes, one fully dressed, relax and chat

Wife Catches Husband 19C
Realisation: the wife finds her erring husband dining with two strange women

Lady and 3 Admirers
A lady and three attendant males in a theatre box

Odysseus returns to his wife, Penelope

Scene from Shakespeares Midsummer Nights Dream
A scene from Shakespeares comedy, A Midsummer Nights Dream (Act II, Scene ii), in which Puck drops a love potion into the sleeping Titanias eyes

Two cats by Louis Wain on a romantic postcard -- He loves me! He loves me not! He loves me! Date: circa 1900s

Biblical Tales by John Lawson, Jesus the Good Shepherd

Christmas scene at the Evelina Childrens Hospital
Christmas comes but once a year -- a scene at the Evelina Childrens Hospital, founded in Southwark, London, in 1869. A sick little girl is visited by her mother and younger sister

Aphrodite, called Hera Borghese. Monte Calvo. 2nd century AD. Goddess of Love. Roman marble copy of a Greek bronze statue of the Classical Period. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen, Denmark

Design for Gilbert and Sullivan, A Dream of Patience
Design by Alice Mary Havers for Gilbert and Sullivan, Savoy Operas, A Dream of Patience. circa 1880s

Enfin Seul (Alone at Last) by Cecil Aldin
Newlywed rabbits sit together, alone at last, following their wedding. A bouquet and top hat are laid aside and a sack labelled Mr and Mrs Bunny stands nearby

Young girl standing at a window on a Christmas card, with a poem on the left. Date: circa 1890s

Love and Beauty by Ernest Procter (1886-1935) as exhibited at the Royal Academy exhibition in 1931. The figures of Venus and Cupid float above London

The Special Private Despatch by Margaret Bradley
A colour illustration of lady dressed in a glamorous ballgown accepting a love letter from a unseen gentleman. Date: 7th December 1927

Flower Power 1967
HIPPIES His and Hers Flower Power outfits at the great Love-In at Woburn Park, Bedfordshire, England. Date: August 1967

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