Merry Collection (page 3)

Victorian Greeting Card - Robins Christmas Dinner
Eight robins having christmas dinner. Date: circa 1890

Victorian Greeting Card - Kittens Playing
Four kittens playing whilst alther watches. Date: circa 1890

Victorian Greeting Card - Blind Mans Buff
Five kittens playing blind mans bluff. Date: circa 1890

Victorian Greeting Card - Kittens Story Time
Four kittens being read a bedtime story. Date: circa 1890

Victorian Greeting Card - Kittens Bedtime Story
Five kittens being read a bedtime story. Date: circa 1890

Victorian Greeting Card - The Cat School
A teacher cat writing on a blackboard whilst students look on. Date: circa 1890

Victorian Greeting Card - The Cat Orchestra
Cats playing misical instruments whilst a conductor looks on. Date: circa 1890

Victorian Greeting Card - Travelling Rabbit
A rabbit sitting on a case at the train station. Date: circa 1890

Ellen Terry as Mistress Page, Merry Wives of Windsor
Ellen Terry as Mistress Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor. 1906

Scene from the Merry Wives of Windsor
Scene from Shakespeares Merry Wives of Windsor playing at the Haymarket Theatre, London, in January 1844. 1844

Christmas card, Pixie and Bunny Rabbits in Snow. 20th century

The Dream Pedlar - She is a Very Merry Old Woman
She is a Very Merry Old Woman - illustration in The Dream Pedlar by Lady Margaret Sackville. Florence Mary Anderson / Molly MacArthur (1893-1972) had two distinct styles of illustration

Elegant riders on a Chinese merry-go-round, Monceau, 1779
Elegant riders playing a game of ring lancing (jeu de Bague) on the Chinese merry-go-round in the gardens at Monceau, near Paris, 1779

Hernes Oak, Windsor Great Park, Berkshire
Hernes Oak, in Windsor Great Park, Berkshire, felled in 1796. Associated with the legend of Herne the Hunter, the tree features in Shakespeares comedy, The Merry Wives of Windsor. Date: 1790

Falstaff
Illustration of Falstaff in Merry Wives of Windsor

Silhouette, Piper Play a Merry Tune

Victorian Christmas card with verse in gothic lettering. 19th century

Illustration, Merry Wives of Windsor, William Shakespeare
Illustration by Kenny Meadows to The Merry Wives of Windsor, by William Shakespeare. Cast list with decorative skull and antlers. Date: 1840

Cats playing musical instruments on a Christmas postcard -- Merry Musicians, The Nursery Series. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of three decanters -- Many a Merry Christmas. Date: circa 1890s

French postcard, Merry Christmas, WW1
French postcard, Merry Christmas, First World War. 1914-1918

Salvation Army - People You See. From Teddy Bear (18 December 1965). Original artwork loaned for scanning by the Illustration Art Gallery. Date: 1965

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
A jolly gentleman encouraging you to drink and be merry! Date: 1845

Bringing in Christmas
Pagan Christmas, with people enjoying the festive spirit with some hot mulled cider or two!

Merry Christmas! 1847
" Heaven Bless you Merry Gentlefolks let Nothing You Dismay, " Page of Victorian men and women getting into the Christmas spirit! Indulging themselves in food, drink and dance. 1847

Merry Little Men - Cheerful Chinese Conjurers. Series of cut-out postcards published by Raphael Tuck. Artist: Ada Leonora Bowley Date: circa 1921

Womens fashion 1912
Delicate colouring in chiffon and gauze, swathered round the straw hat and hanging in graceful folds at the back which almost reaches the waist. Date: 1912

Bank Holiday leisure on Hampstead Heath, north west London - a lady rides a donkey nervously through the crowd of people. Date: 1871

Holidaymakers making merry on Hampstead Heath, north west London. Date: 1871

Vampish femme fatale in a sleeveless, decollete gown worn with a shawl, floral corsage, beads & a Merry Widow style hat employs her womanly charms on a victem. Date: 1910

Young Jockey on a rocking horse posting a letter
D you know that you owe me a letter? I fear you re an awful forgetter, or are you a jockey to boast how often you re passing the post? 1934

Christmas card, Shakespearean jesters -- May you be merry and lack nothing. Date: circa 1935

Sweet Anne Page by G. D. Leslie
Sweet Anne Page from The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare painted by George Dunlop Leslie RA (1835-1921), part of a series of Shakespearean heroines by well-known Victorian artists

STRIPED & SPOTTED C. 1911 STRIPED & SPOTTED C. 1911
A high waisted narrow line dress in spots & stripes with a hobble skirt with a box pleated hem to aid mobility, a wrap over corsage, sash & long sleeves with ruffled cuffs Date: circa 1911

MERRY GO ROUND ON ICE
A merry-go-round on the ice - towing children on toboggans. Date: 1890

MERRY-GO-ROUND MAN 1804
The merry-go-round man. Date: 1804

THEATREGOER IN BIG HAT 1914
A theatre-going lady in an absolutely splendid hat - unless, of course, your seat happens to be back of hers... Date: 1914

Girl in Trousers 1911
Blonde lady in a large Merry Widow style hat; high heels holds a pipe-smoking bulldog. Date: 1911

Rotary boat at Woodwards Garden, San Francisco 1886
Woodwards Garden, San Francisco, California, was a combination amusement park, museum, art gallery, zoo and aquarium operating from 1866 to 1891

HURRAH FOR THE SALES
Always Merry and Bright - Hurrah for the Bargain Sales ! Date: circa 1910

FOUR IN A BOX
A lady and three attendant males in a theatre box Date: 1908

Robin Hood and Maid Marian
Robin Hood, Maid Marian and their companions eat, drink and make merry in Sherwood Forest

Fairies dance in a fairy ring
He whistled to the merry elves, Were leaping in a ring

Greeting card
Jog on jog on the foot-pathway and merrily hent the style-a! A merry heart goes all the day, your sad tires in a mile-a! (Shakespeare, A Winters Tale). Artist: Ethel Larcombe. Date: circa 1910

San Toy, musical comedy - wishing you good luck and merry times. circa early 1900s

Mr & Mrs Benson and Company, Theatre Royal, Halifax
Mr & Mrs Benson and their Company, at the Theatre Royal, Halifax, with a programme of Shakespeare plays (The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet)

Xmas Greetings - What Cheer
XMAS Greetings - Hurrah we re here. What ho! What Cheer! Date: 1907

A line of small children are led to Santas grotto in Cannock Chase Forest, Staffordshire, England. Each Christmas, the forest sells off Christmas trees to the public. Date: 1991

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