Naive Collection

Cottage of Alfred Wallis, St Ives, Cornwall
View of the cottage of Alfred Wallis (1855-1942), primitive artist, mariner, fisherman and marine stores dealer, at Back Road West, not far from Porthmeor Beach and the Tate Gallery

HAITI. Port-au-Prince. Haitian market scene. Naive art. Fresco

Circus scene. Illustration by G鲡rd Laplau (1938-2009)
Circus scene. Illustration by G鲡 rd Laplau (1938-2009). Naive art. Painting

Haitian women. Naive art. Painting. Private Collection

The Intelligence Department, by Bairnsfather
The Intelligence Department " Is this ere the Warwicks?" " Nao, Indenburgs blinkin Light Infantry" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander

Comic postcard, nurse, baby and new father - girl or boy? Date: 20th century

Comic Postcard - feeble Vicar not tempted by a pretty girl
Comic Postcard - ( My Word !) Get Thee behind me Temptress - a feeble and effete Vicar not tempted by a pretty girl, although one wonders if she is quite his type anyway... 1910

RMS Titanic - shell memorials and two publications
RMS Titanic - rare post-disaster naive hand-decorated shells depicting the Titanic and Carpathia presented in a period oak frame

Carpathia and Titanic - decorated shells in oak frame
Carpathia and Titanic - rare post-disaster hand-decorated shells depicting the two ships, presented in a period oak frame. 6 x 4.5 inches. Date: circa 1910s

Harnessing the atom by G. H. Davis
The force which can move mountains: harnessing the atom to vast projects for the benefit of mankind

Comic postcard, Two neighbours chatting Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little girl, woman and pigs Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little boys and vicar. Please sir, we re forming a cricket club. Will you let us have one of the bats the verger says you have in your belfry? Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, fond of animals Date: 20th century

Georgie C Gaskin
A Christmas card in naive style depicting a young child with her dolls. Artist: Georgie C Gaskin (wife of artist Arthur Gaskin) Date: circa 1905

Overweight soldier on a comic greetings card with verse. Date: circa 1850s

Skinny soldier on a comic greetings card with verse. Date: circa 1850s

Salvation Army War Cry seller
A Salvation Army man stands in his bicycle clips while selling War Cries outside a corset shop. His bike leans against the wall. Stafford, England Date: 1986

Cartoon, After the explosion, WW1
Cartoon, After the explosion. A naive new recruit in a trench on the Western Front comments that these shells break as soon as they hit the ground! Date: 1916

Fanny Fields music hall comedienne 1881-1961
?Happy? Fanny Fields music hall comedienne dressed in character as naive Gretchen in Dutch costume. Clog dancing part of the act. Date: circa 1905

Cards? by H. M. Bateman
A rather naive gent is invited to join three more worldly looking chaps at a card table, only to find himself soon afterwards utterly at a loss. Date: 1920

Daphnis and Chloe (5)
Daphnis and Chloe. The naive, young naked lovers begin to feel an uncomprehending love for each other

Young French Red Cross nurse - La bonne fille. Date: 1915

Hand-drawn Christmas Greetings postcard - Father Christmas
Hand-drawn pen and ink Christmas Greetings postcard, featuring Father Christmas driving his pair of reindeer and sleigh over a snowy wintery landscape Date: circa 1908

Poster, Champs Elysees, Paris, France. Date: circa 1961

Music cover, Varmer Giles, sung by George Bastow
Music cover, Varmer Giles, written and composed by Gilbert Wells and T F Robson, sung by George Bastow. 1902

Cartoon, Concerning sugar, WW1
Cartoon, Concerning sugar. Two French women discuss how little sugar they are using during the sugar crisis, but it still sounds like quite a lot! Date: 1916

Cartoon, Two fashionable French women, WW1
Cartoon, two fashionable French women with their purchases, one of them reading a newspaper (Le Journal)

Cartoon, Bank Notes, Paper Money, French Alarmists, o the Devil, the Devil! ah! poor John Bull!!! by James Gillray

Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910). In a Tropical Forest. Struggle between Tiger and Bull. 1908 - 1909. Naive art.; Post-Impressionism. Oil on canvas. RUSSIA. Saint Petersburg. State Hermitage Museum

JL. Simple Simon
Simple Simon fishing in a bucket... late 19th century

Simple Simon C1860
Simple Simon met a pieman going to the fair. Says Simple Simon to the pieman, Let me taste your ware. Date: circa 1860

Jesus Crucified C11 Ms
Jesus on the cross mourned by his mother and brother - a naive depiction which vividly expresses the emotion of the event : the figure of Mary prefigures Munchs Scream Date: 11th century

Daphnis and Chloe (6)
Daphnis and Chloe. The naive, young lovers begin to feel an uncomprehending love for each other

Young boy lion tamer & lion
A young lion tamer in the circus with an obedient lion, sitting atop a decorated podium in the big top tent. Ink drawing with watercolour washes by Malcolm Greensmith

Birthday Party
Four children at a birthday party, wearing party hats and standing underneath multi-coloured balloons holding wrapped parcels. Ink drawing with watercolour washes by Malcolm Greensmith

Young boy and his dog play pirates

Horsemen Scare Aztecs
Because they have never seen horses before, the Aztecs flee in sheer terror from the Spanish horsemen, taking them to be satyr-like monsters

A CARD SHARP / C. 1850
A card sharp tries to con two naive country folk at an inn; they are using a barrel as a playing surface

Mr Popple throws his hat at the fox, much to the Master of Fox Hounds disgust

Stonehenge in 18th Cent
A rather naive view of Stonehenge and visitors to the site

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