Play Collection (#88)

Actor playing The Chairman in a play, Heartsease
An unnamed actor playing the role of The Chairman in a play entitled Heartsease, probably by Edmund Falconer (Edmund O Rourke). Date: early 20th century

Children playing 1895
Three children pretend that they are on a horse and cart, using dining room chairs and a little horse on wheels as transport. Date: 1895

Cherub playing the violin. To My Valentine. Postcard

Royal Navy sailors playing games on deck. August 1916 Date: 1916

Convalescing soldiers and WaCs, Western Front, WW1
Convalescing soldiers and WaCs playing basketball near the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Small boy standing on chaise-longue
Young boy holding a ball, stands on a chaise longue. Date: c. 1910

Pencil sketch of toddler with bucket
Pencil sketch of a toddler filling a bucket with sand. Date: 1920s

Pencil sketch of child on a fence
Pencil sketch of a child walking along the top of a fence. Date: 1920s

Pencil sketch of four children paddling at the seaside. Date: 1920s

Stage production of The Squaw Man
Stage production of a play, The Squaw Man (written 1905), by Edwin Milton Royle, starring William Faversham (1868-1940) as Captain James Wynnegate. Date: early 20th century

Two sprites playing a violin and a flute
A butterfly dances to the music played by two sprites playing a violin and a flute

Illustration of the Shakespeare Play Timon of Athens
Illustration of the Shakespeare Play " Timon of Athens", by S. G. Boxsius. Date: 1913

Children playing on slide
Nursery school children playing on slide in playground and waiting patiently in a queue to ascend slide Date: 1930s

Seaside scene, Saucy Sue, showing a far from saucy woman in masculine-style clothes, sitting on a beach reading a book on Ethics, while children play in the sea in the background. Date: July 1914

Nursery Rhymes -- boy with slate, mice with cheese
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- a boy sits doing sums on a slate while other boys play football. Below -- mice eating bread, cheese and an apple. Date: early 20th century

Children in the nursery
Lots of children playing in the nursery, while the Nanny holds the youngest child. Date: circa 1870

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Nursery Rhymes -- Tom the Pipers Son. Tom with his pipe did play with such skill, that those who heard him could never keep still; as soon as he played they began for to dance

Two young boys on an Easter egg hunt
Two brothers carry empty baskets as they begin an Easter egg hunt Date: c. 1920

A football match played by troops during the battle of the A
" Our Happy Tommies" A typical upbeat choice of subject for The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, Sutcliffes illustration

Three children with tent on a beach
Three children in Red Indian costume standing in front of a tent on a beach

People on ships deck playing a game
People on the deck of a ship, playing a game involving wooden models of racehorses, with a racecourse marked out in white

Childrens Games Through the Ages
This picture shows children at play from the middle ages to 150 years ago. It has lots of differen scenes of children playing different types of games

Little boy playing with his toys
A little boy playing with his toys and riding a hobby horse

Little girl at the seaside
A small child plays with her shoe as she sits on the sand at the seaside Date: 1912

Le Concert Champetre
A group of musicians play together in the countryside. Date: 18th century

Guy Domville, at the St. Jamess Theatre
Guy Domville, played by George Alexander, and Mrs Peverel, played by Marion Terby, in the Garden at Porches. Scene from the new play by Henry James, Guy Domville, at the St. Jamess Theatre. Date: 1895

A scene from the play Denise by Alexandre Dumas
A dramatic scene from the theatre production, showing a man trying to strangle his victim. Date: 1885

Child in a playpen in a garden
A child standing in a playpen in a garden, with his teddy bear and toy dog for company, and some counting beads to play with. Date: circa 1920s

Blurred image of child with hoop and stick
A blurred image of a child playing with a hoop and stick -- evidently moving along at speed!

Programme cover for Playtime at the Piccadilly cabaret at the Piccadilly Hotel, London Date: 1931

Going Through the Course: Family musical gathering
A bald uncle implores his niece to play a polka on the piano at a family gathering. She declines, being only able to play Beethovens sonatas. Date: 1886

India Kanpur Cawnpore
Kanpur, formerly ka Cawnpore, on the Ganges, will play an important part in the Indian Mutiny in the 1850s. Date: circa 1835

Children on a slide at Bexhill
Two children, a girl and a boy, with two women at the top of a wooden playground slide in Bexhill, Sussex. Horses on a roundabout can be seen in the background. Date: 1928

The Prince of Orange is given conflicting advice how to play his game of dice with the king of Spain. Date: circa 1639

Argentine Guitarists
Argentinian guitarists strike a masculine pose, one foot on a rock, as they play a duet together while their coy womenfolk hide from the camera, South America. Date: 1930s

Picture No. 10225212
The Beginnings of the Christmas Play by Muriel Broderick Date: I

Japanese Acting Mask
The rather frightening mask and costume worn by Japanese actor KUBUKI in the role of a loner in a Japanese play. Date: 28 April 1933

Daudet Photo
ALPHONSE DAUDET French writer, photographed with his daughter Edmee while his sons play tennis in their garden at Champrosay, a Paris suburb, in 1890. Date: 1840 - 1897

Ziethen Statue
Sightseers in Berlin admire the statue of Prussian military commander HANS JOACHIM VON ZIETHEN while dogs play in the foreground. Date: 1699 - 1786

Siddons as Cleone
SARAH SIDDONS actress as Cleone in an unidentified play Date: 1755 - 1831

Sheridan as Oedipus
THOMAS SHERIDAN actor in the role of Oedipus, in the play of that name by Sophocles : he was the father of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Date: 1719 - 1788

Kemble as Abelard
JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE actor as Abelard, in a play by an unnamed playwright. Date: 1757 - 1823

Kemble as Charles I
JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE actor as Charles I, a play by an unnamed dramatist : depicted at his trial. Date: 1757 - 1823

Kemble as Cato - 2
JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE the great classical actor as Cato in Addisons play of that name. Date: 1757 - 1823

John Philip Kemble, actor
JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE actor as Shakespeares Richard III : I am in, so far in blood... Date: 1757 - 1823

Children Playing Cards
A group of children play cards in the street. Date: late 1960s

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