The nursery rhyme, Mary, Mary, quite contraryMary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? Silver bells and cockle-shells, and pretty maids all in a row. Date: c. 1930
Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie - Kissed the girls and made them cry. When the boys came out to play - Georgie Porgie ran away
Hills. Christmas Is Coming. Cecil Aldin. 1898. jpgIllustration by Cecil Aldin depicting a kindly Father Christmas reciting the traditional song, " Christmas is Coming, the Goose is getting Fat" to a gaggle of obviously dim geese
Lucy Locket lost her pocket, Kitty Fisher found it. But ne er a penny was therein, except the lining round it. 20th century
Three Little Kittens Are Washing Their Mittens. Artist: Louis Wain. Traditional nursery rhyme Date: circa 1905
Three Little KittensThe Three Little Kittens are washing their mittens. 19th century
Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon, the little dog laughed to see such sport, and the dish ran away with the spoon
Cover design, Ovaltine ABC Rhyme Book - a happy family with a giant Ovaltine tin. Date: early 20th century
Puss in Boots -- walking along a country lane. 19th century
Four & Twenty Blackbirds Date: circa 1918
Bye Baby Bunting Date: circa 1918
Rock-a-bye-baby - Illustration of traditional nursery rhyme. Artist: From Cassells Childrens Annual. Florence Mary Anderson circa 1920
The nursery rhyme, Georgie Porgie, pudding and pieGeorgie Porgie, pudding and pie - Kissed the girls and made them cry. When the boys came out to play - Georgie Porgie ran away. Date: c. 1930
Nursery Rhyme -- Baa Baa Black SheepNursery Rhyme - Baa Baa Black Sheep, have you any wool? Date: circa 1920s
Humpty Dumpty looking unhappy after his fall, with cracks all over his head. A soldier in the background looks on helplessly
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary - Nursery RhymeMary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells, And pretty maids all in a row
Christmas Is ComingChristmas is coming the geese are getting fat Please to put a penny in the old mans hat If you havent got a penny a hapenny will do If you havent got a hapenny God bless you Father Christmas sits in
Dressing doll. Dick WhittingtonDick Whittington. Cut-out postcard enabling children to cut out the garments & fit them on the body of the nursery rhyme character. Date: 1921
The nursery rhyme Lets go to bedLets go to bed, said sleepyhead. Tarry a while, said slow, Put on the pan, said greedy Nan, Lets sup before we go. Date: c. 1930
J Mercer. The Queen of HeartsThe Queen of Hearts she made some tarts... 20th century
Mary had a little pigTraditional nursery rhyme. Artist: Anne Anderson Date: circa 1918
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, Bakers Man... 20th century
Ride-a-cock-horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady ride on a white horse... 20th century
Humpty Dumpty by Dorothy WheelerA little boy and girl stare up at a wall on which sits a very superior looking Humpty Dumpty wearing a crown and an eye glass
If all the World WasIf all the world was apple pie; And all the sea was ink, And all the trees were bread and cheese, What should we have to drink? Date: circa 1912
Nursery Characters - How Many Can You Spot? by Pauline BayneStunningly detailed illustration by Pauline Baynes featuring no less than 56 different nursery rhyme characters. Can you spot them all? If not, there is a key to the picture in Holly Leaves, 1954
Nursery rhyme, This Little PigDepiction of the nursery rhyme, This Little Pig -- This little pig went to market, This little pig stayed at home, etc
Rather wonderful pair (possibly father and son?) dressed as Tom, Tom the Pipers Son. The boy on the right is Tom, while the man on the left, dressed as a yokel, holds the pig that Tom steals
I saw a ship a-sailing - Traditional nursery rhyme. From The Land of Nursery Rhyme published by JM Dent Date: 1930
Suffragette, An Easter Prophecy. Suffragette hen with chick, rabbit and eggs. The hen carries a Votes for Women placard and the rhyme reads, When hens all join the suffrage ranks
Sing a Song of Sixpence -- the king cuts into his pie, and the blackbirds start to sing. 19th century
Pussy Cat, Pussy CatPussy-cat, pussy-cat, where have you been? I ve been up to London to look at the queen. Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, what did you there? I frightened a little mouse under the chair Date: circa 1912
Curly Locks 2Bonny lass, pretty lass, wilt thou be mine ? Thou shalt not wash dishes nor yet feed the swine... (except for the opening words, its the Curly locks rhyme)
Curly Locks Date: circa 1918
See Saw Margery Daw Date: circa 1918
A Diller a Dollar, a Twelve O clock ScholarNursery rhyme illustration -- A Diller a Dollar, a Twelve O clock Scholar, what makes you come so soon? You used to come at ten o clock, and now you come at noon
Oranges and Lemons studio portrait Victorian period
Oranges and Lemons, nursery rhyme
Now, boys and girls, come out to play, Nursery RhymeNow, boys and girls, come out to play, The moon doth shine as bright as day - scenes from the Nursery Rhyme
Jack and Jill, nursery rhyme scenes
Little Jack HornerArtist's rendering of a traditional nursery rhyme. Artist: John Lawson Date: circa 1898
Illustration, In Nursery-Rhyme Land - Why, all the people are alive, cried Betty. Date: 1938
The Queen of Hearts baked some tarts, illustration by Chris G. Temple Date: circa 1920
The House That Jack BuiltA photograph of a toy displaying figurines from the nursery rhyme, The House That Jack Built, including a windmill, the bags of malt, a cat, the rat, the cow with a crumpled horn
Hark, Hark! The Dogs Do BarkThis illustration depicts the scene of an old English nursery rhyme, Hark hark, the dogs do bark, Beggars are coming to town, Some in jags, some in rags, And some in velvet gowns. Date: circa 1914
Little Jack Horner sat in the corner Date: circa 1920s
Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross Date: circa 1900
Little Bo-PeepA cover illustration of a Western cut-out nursery rhyme booklet, one of a series of five, showing an upset Little Bo-Peep at having lost her sheep. Used as an advertisement for the Weston Co
