Pond Collection (#15)

The Pelicans of Whitehall
Illustration depicting pelicans on a pond in St. Jamess Park near Whitehall in London

The Next Infliction - the Cross-Word Puzzle Illustrated by W
Heath Robinsons contribution to the crossword craze of 1925, an illustrated crossword puzzle with clues included under the picture

A Pond in a woodland setting
A pond at the edge of woodland near Chiselhampden, Oxford. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Scene by a Park pond
Barn Hill pond with children playing at the waters edge. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Village pond at Shenley, Hertfordshire
Daffodils on the banks of the village pond at Shenley, Hertfordshire. Painting by Raymond Sheppard

Peerless Pool, London
A natural pond off the City Road, at one time a fish pond, and a favourite bathing place

Empire Exhibition Scotland - The Clachan
A replica Scottish hamlet - The Clachan - at the Empire Exhibition at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, Scotland. This area of the exhibition was sponsored by the Scottish island ferry company Caledonian

Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh - India
Scene in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh Province, India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

The Hostess who Invited a few Friends to Skate in her Privat
Humorous illustration by H.M. Bateman showing a distraught society lady, aghast at the sight of her house guests standing chest deep in the not very frozen lake she had encouraged them to skate upon

Bridge
Echoing the composition of Monets series of pictures of the bridge in his garden over a pond at Giverny, this oil painting by Malcolm Greensmith studies the dappled reflection of light on the water

Evening lakeside scene with reeds
A view of a still lake in the evening light. Airbrush painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Tranquil Lake - Silent Trees. A clear still blue pond dotted with water lilies. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Lily pond at Abbotswood, Gloucestershire
View of a lily pond in the formal gardens at Abbotswood, Stow on the Wold, Gloucestershire. The gardens were created by Sir Edwin Lutyens

The Silvery Moon by Florence Hardy
Two children dressed in clown and Pierrot costumes, skate together under a silver moon

Children playing in the snow
Lovely illustration showing children having fun during the winter, ice skating, sledging, building snowmen and, rather more alarmingly, building fires!

Christmas children skating by Florence Hardy
Three small children, looking very festive in their matching green elfin capes skate together across a frozen pond

Winter girl 1814 by Florence Hardy
A small girl dressed in a fetching red Regency style dress and bonnet skates skilfully across a frozen pond managing to hold both a fur muff and a bunch of holly simultaneously

Skating Girls by Florence Hardy
Three little girls, dressed identically in red coats and carrying fur muffs with matching hats skate across a frozen pond

Christmas children by Florence Hardy
A quintet of children in winter jerseys and pointed caps skate in unison on a pond holding bunches of holly in a very festive manner

Paddington Green
A pond, a farm cart, a donkey - this is Paddington Green in the mid-18th century

The Humorist Christmas Number 1938 - An Ice Proposal
Front cover illustration by William Heath Robinson featuring a group of skaters on a frozen pond. A man etches a question mark on the ice with his skates and his girlfriend responds

Hampstead Pond Street
A rustic scene at Pond Street - Hampstead in the 18th century

Sunken garden of the Viceroys house in New Delhi, India
A beautiful feature in the grounds surrounding the Viceroys house. The sunken garden at the back with a pool encircled by flowers and shrubs showing (above and beyond the wall at each end)

Feeding the Fowls
A young girl in a wide-brimmed red hat feeds a large cockerel on a farm. She carries a wide wooden bowl contian feed/seed

London Bermondsey
Mill Pond Bridge

Souvenirs
A man who has fallen into a pond whilst on a hunt. Date: 1928

Down to Bed-rock
An intelligent method of overcoming a difficult problem. An ingenious method of taking at shot at a golf ball at the bottom of a pond

Croatia - Supetar - on the northern side of the Dalmatian island of Brac in the Adriatic Sea

Broughton Castle, Banbury, Oxfordshire

Ice Skating in London, 1847
Engraving showing a large group of Victorian gentlemen ice skating on a pond in London, during the winter of 1846-7

Swan and a village pond
A painting of a swan by Malcolm Greensmith is set into the border framing an English country village pond in the bright spring light

Skating on St. Jamess Park lake during winter of 1947
A cheerful crowd disporting on the ice in front of Buckingham Palace. During one of the coldest winters experienced by Britain, nearly all London lakes were available for skaters

The Vale of Health, Hampstead, 1888
Engraving showing the Vale of Health pond in Hampstead, North London, 1888

Winter Scenes, Britain, c. 1897
Series of sketches of winter scenes in Britain, c.1897. The centre image shows two women skating on a pond. The surrounding images show various street scenes

Weight & See / Whr
The New Safety Ice-Tester for testing under comfortable conditions the capacity of the ice to bear the weight of the average British citizen

Feeding the Swans / 1901
Eager children crowd behind the railings at Hampton Court Palace, to feed swans and ducks in a pond

Peace by Frank Reynolds
A young boy sits peacefully fishing

Snow in Hyde Park
A snowy scene in Hyde Park by Japanese artist, Take Sato

The Fish & the Cormorant
THE FISH AND THE CORMORANT An elderly cormorant, unable to see, tricks the fish into being borne by him to a safe place, a shallow pond from where he can eat his fill

England / Wroxton 1940S
A little boy in shorts and braces chats to a man on a motorcycle around the pond at Wroxton, a picturesque village full of thatched cottages, in Oxfordshire, England

Ducklington Oxfordshire
VILLAGE SCENE A peaceful scene at Ducklington, Oxfordshire, showing the school-house beside the duckpond

African Boat Boy
A boy in the a pond in the West African section of the Paris Exhibition, France. He only spoke an African language and was known as the silent black watchman

Social / Nurse / Serpentine
A nurse wheels her charge in a perambulator past the Round Pond in Kensington Gardens, London, where boys are sailing model yachts

Stone Cottages
Stone cottages with heavy stone tiled roofs, around the old mill pond in a tranquil corner of Swanage, Dorset, England

Lindfield / Sussex / 1950S
LINDFIELD Villagers gather round the village pond

Swanage / Dorset / 1930S
SWANAGE A group of stone cottages round a mill pond

Kentish Oast Houses
These familiar landmarks of Kent are the red brick and tiled hop kilns used for drying hops after harvesting. This one sits beside the village pond

Woman in Garden / Woof
Smiling blonde, wearing a white, peasant style dress, sits on a rush mat on a path in a sunny garden

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