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Naive Collection

Background imageNaive Collection: Cottage of Alfred Wallis, St Ives, Cornwall

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

Background imageNaive Collection: HAITI. Port-au-Prince. Haitian market scene

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

Background imageNaive Collection: Circus scene. Illustration by G鲡rd Laplau (1938-2009)

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

Background imageNaive Collection: Haitian women. Naive art. Painting. Private Collection

Haitian women. Naive art. Painting. Private Collection

Background imageNaive Collection: The Intelligence Department, by Bairnsfather

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

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

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

Background imageNaive Collection: Comic Postcard - feeble Vicar not tempted by a pretty girl

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

Background imageNaive Collection: Fanny Fields music hall comedienne 1881-1961

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

Background imageNaive Collection: RMS Titanic - shell memorials and two publications

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

Background imageNaive Collection: Carpathia and Titanic - decorated shells in 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

Background imageNaive Collection: Harnessing the atom by G. H. Davis

Harnessing the atom by G. H. Davis
The force which can move mountains: harnessing the atom to vast projects for the benefit of mankind. Showing how the use of atomic explosives could be used on ambitious engineering works

Background imageNaive Collection: Comic postcard, Two neighbours chatting Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two neighbours chatting Date: 20th century

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

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

Background imageNaive Collection: Comic postcard, Little boys and vicar. Please sir, we re forming a cricket club

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

Background imageNaive Collection: Comic postcard, fond of animals

Comic postcard, fond of animals Date: 20th century

Background imageNaive Collection: Georgie C Gaskin

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

Background imageNaive Collection: Overweight soldier on a comic greetings card

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

Background imageNaive Collection: Skinny soldier on a comic greetings card

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

Background imageNaive Collection: Salvation Army War Cry seller

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

Background imageNaive Collection: Cartoon, After the explosion, WW1

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

Background imageNaive Collection: Cards? by H. M. Bateman

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

Background imageNaive Collection: Daphnis and Chloe (5)

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

Background imageNaive Collection: Young French Red Cross nurse - La bonne fille

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

Background imageNaive Collection: Hand-drawn Christmas Greetings postcard - Father Christmas

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

Background imageNaive Collection: Poster, Champs Elysees, Paris, France

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

Background imageNaive Collection: Music cover, Varmer Giles, sung by George Bastow

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

Background imageNaive Collection: Cartoon, Concerning sugar, WW1

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

Background imageNaive Collection: Cartoon, Two fashionable French women, WW1

Cartoon, Two fashionable French women, WW1
Cartoon, two fashionable French women with their purchases, one of them reading a newspaper (Le Journal). One of them says that its easy to say Howitzers, Grenades, etc

Background imageNaive Collection: Cartoon, Bank Notes, Paper Money, French Alarmists

Cartoon, Bank Notes, Paper Money, French Alarmists, o the Devil, the Devil! ah! poor John Bull!!! by James Gillray. Showing the Prime Minister, William Pitt

Background imageNaive Collection: Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910). In a Tropical Forest

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

Background imageNaive Collection: JL. Simple Simon

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

Background imageNaive Collection: Simple Simon C1860

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

Background imageNaive Collection: Jesus Crucified C11 Ms

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

Background imageNaive Collection: Daphnis and Chloe (6)

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

Background imageNaive Collection: Young boy lion tamer & lion

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

Background imageNaive Collection: Birthday Party

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

Background imageNaive Collection: Young boy and his dog play pirates

Young boy and his dog play pirates

Background imageNaive Collection: Horsemen Scare Aztecs

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

Background imageNaive Collection: A CARD SHARP / C. 1850

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

Background imageNaive Collection: Mr Popple throws his hat at the fox

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

Background imageNaive Collection: Stonehenge in 18th Cent

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


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