Nursery Collection (page 13)

Little Miss Muffett and spider on a greetings card. Date: circa 1930s

Clock with nursery rhyme on a Christmas card, with verse below. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of a pie, with some blackbirds peeking out. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Shelley china - Mabel Lucie Attwell
Illustrations showing the range of Shelley nursery china designed by Mabel Lucie Attwell in 1929 - very collectible today. 1929

Dressing doll. Red Riding Hood
Red Riding Hood. Cut-out postcard enabling children to cut out the garments & fit them on the body of the nursery rhyme character. Date: 1921

Dressing doll. Beauty & the Beast
Beauty & the Beast. Cut-out postcard enabling children to cut out the garments & fit them on the body of the nursery rhyme character. Date: 1921

Dressing doll. Simple Simon. Cut-out postcard enabling children to cut out the garments & fit them on the body of the nursery rhyme character. Date: 1921

Nursery Rhymes - Dame made a curtsey
Dame made a curtsey - Dame ready to curtsey and dog to bow in Kitchen. Part of Box 52 Boswell collection. Nursery Rhymes. Date: circa 1890s

Cock-Doodle-Do
The nursery rhyme Cock-a-Doodle-Do & an engraving of a fine cockerel. Date: circa 1830

Dressing doll. Robin Hood
Robin Hood. Cut-out postcard enabling children to cut out the garments & fit them on the body of the nursery rhyme character. Date: 1921

Dressing doll. Little Jack Horner. Cut-out postcard enabling children to cut out the garments & fit them on the body of the nursery rhyme character. Date: 1921

Dressing doll. Little Bo-Peep. Cut-out postcard enabling children to cut out the garments & fit them on the body of the nursery rhyme character. Date: 1921

Dressing doll. Baby Bunting. Cut-out postcard enabling children to cut out the garments & fit them on the body of the nursery rhyme character. Date: 1921

Illustration, Wee Willie Winkie. circa early 20th century

To Bed, to Bed 1818
To bed, to bed, says Sleepy- Head. Lets stay awhile, says Slow. Put on the pot, says Greedy Gut, we ll sup before we go

Girl with watering can
Mary Mary Quite Contrary. Image from a German postcard series of nursery rhymes.Date: 1901

Dick Whittington
Traditional nursery rhyme from Nursery land, one of Deans Rag Books.Date: circa 1939

Workhouse Nursery
Children in the nursery at an unidentified workhouse. Date: 1909

The nursery rhyme, Simple Simon
Simple Simon met a pieman, going to the fair; said simple Simon to the pieman; Let me taste your ware. Date: c. 1930

The nursery rhyme, Little Jack Horner
Little Jack Horner sat in a corner, eating a Christmas pie; he put in his thumb, and pulled out a plum, and said, what a good boy am I! Date: c. 1930

The nursery rhyme, Mary had a little lamb
Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow; and everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go. Date: c. 1930

The nursery rhyme, The Mulberry Bush
Here we go round the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush, here we go round the mulberry bush on a cold and frosty morning. Date: c. 1930

The nursery rhyme, Little Tommy Tucker
Little Tommy Tucker sings for this supper; what shall we give him? White bread and butter. How will he cut it without eer a knife? How can he marry without eer a wife? Date: c. 1930

Pussy Cat, where have you been?
Black and white. Girl standing in a room by an open window, where a cat is sitting on the window sill. They are looking at each other. Part of Box 102, Nursery Rhymes

My Dolly by Susan Beatrice Pearse
A little girl sits in a comfortable looking floral upholstered armchair and cuddles her baby doll. A toy cradle stands by her feet. Date: c.1915

Suffragette Votes for Sheep Martyr. Little Bo Peep stands with her shepherds crook holding a picture of a sheep in a prison cell, with Votes for Women as the headline, and a martyr beneath

Lucy Locket lost her pocket..Traditional nursery rhyme. Date: circa 1912

Creche for the children of munitions workers, WW1
Dinner time at a creche for the children of women munition workers at Birmingham. According to the caption in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News

Wick House Nursery, Brislington, Bristol
The Wick House Nursery, Brislington, Bristol. The home was opened in 1925 by the Waifs and Strays Society in a house donated by Mr and Mrs Walter James. Date: 1920s

Nursery Rhymes -- old woman, pig on cart
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- an old woman outside a cave, with cooking pot, fire and cat. Below -- a man rides in a horse-drawn cart with a pig in the front. Date: early 20th century

Nursery Rhymes -- Old Woman and Her Pig
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations, The Old Woman and Her Pig. She tries to persuade the pig to go over the stile, but the pig refuses, so she asks the dog to bite the pig to make it go over

Nursery Rhyme - Ride a Cock-Horse
Nursery Rhyme -- Ride a Cock-Horse to Banbury Cross. Showing a cute little boy on a hobby horse. Date: circa 1920s

Repeating Pattern - Cinderella Story - green background
Repeating Pattern - Characters from the story of Cinderella (in white silhouette on a green background). *PLEASE NOTE that the magnifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern

Repeating Pattern - Cinderella Story - yellow background
Repeating Pattern - Characters from the story of Cinderella (in white silhouette on a yellow background). *PLEASE NOTE that the magnifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern

Nursery-man, in Comely-Garden, Edinburgh. Title page / title-engraving by Cowan from William Boutcher, A treatise on forest-trees. Date: 1775

Nursery Rhyme Characters, including humpty dumpty, the Queen of Hearts, the Old Woman in the Shoe, the cow who jumped over the moon, the cat and the fiddle

Fairy tea party

Lady bug, lady bug, fly away!. Young girl lying on ground with lady bug on her hand. Date 1872, c1873

Milk delivery men and carts, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Ws Baker & Son Victoria Dairy milk delivery men pictured with their carts at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. Milkman Bill Whittle (left)

There Was a Crooked Man, and he walked a crooked mile. He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile. He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse

E Richards. Dunce, dunce, double d
Dunce, dunce, double D, he can t say his A B C. Children in a classroom, with a boy wearing a dunces hat, standing on a stool. 20th century

Ladybird, Ladybird
Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home; Your house is on fire, your children are gone - All but one and her name is Ann, And she crept under the pudding-pan Date: circa 1912

Mulberry Bush Rhyme

North Wind Doth Blow
The North Wind doth blow, And we shall have snow, And what will poor Robin do then? Poor Thing!

Dick Whittington as Boy
As a boy, he is thrashed in the kitchen

Jack and Jill by Florence Hardy
Two children dressed in clown and Pierrot costumes, play in the snow with a sledge. The little girl, wearing neck ruff and holding a muff to keep her hands warm waves a sprig of holly in the air

Mother Hubbard by Briton Riviere
Painting by Briton Riviere illustrating the nursery rhyme, Old Mother Hubbard. A young girl in a mop cap goes to open a cupboard door while her Jack Russell terrier waits intently

Old King Cole was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he... Old King Cole and a lady selling tickets to hoards of excited children to enter the world of nursery rhymes

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