Romance Collection (page 5)

Comic postcard, Couple chatting by a country gate - cut out the rude stuff Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Cowkeepers daughter Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Couple sitting on a fence Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, cockerel chasing hen across the road Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, cockerel and hen flirtation Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little girl and little boy sitting on a doorstep Date: 20th century

A young couple share a tender embrace
circa 1910s

A young couple, Ivy A. Hill and Bruce Lindemann, pose together for a romantic photograph in a bucolic setting. With him in a cricket pullover and she in a checked dress with matching headscarf

A Hurried Courtship by John Hassall
A Hurried Courtship - Perfect Strangers Meet He: Ain t that a swagger marriage? She: Don t I wish it were moine! He: Don t I wish it were moine! She: Don t I jes wish it were both ours

Millicent Sowerby
Elizabethan boy and girl at a stile. Romance. Date: circa 1905

Two gentlemen at the Opera Ball, 1835
Fops in coat with tails, waistcoat, tight pants and white stockings. People in fancy dress and masks behind them. At the Opera Ball 1835. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V

Gentleman giving out medicines to beggars, 18th century
English gentleman dispensing his medicine cabinet to beggars at Ivry-sur Seine, 18th century. He gives aerated salts to a one-armed soldier, Bruchsal elixir to an old woman, and magnetic drops

A gentleman and woman kiss on a bench near a town gate as a two-horse phaeton with leering man drives by. The Embrace. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson

Two lovers in a parlour disturbed by prying maids moving glasses in a cupboard. Miseries Domestic. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Parson cursing foxhunters and hounds trampling his garden after a fox. Despite a warning sign reading Steel traps spring guns set in this garden. The Enraged Vicar

English grocer entering a dining room and surprising his family, 19th century. Mr. John Jorrocks enters to find Mrs Jorrocks in red and gold turban

A horse bolts through a gate during a foxhunt, 19th century. Riders in hunting pinks and a pack of foxhounds watch as the huntsman tries to regain control. One of Multum in Parvos going days

Two English gentlemen evaluating a horse in a paddock, 19th century. A jockey sits on Hercules, a groom Leather holds the horses head

English gentleman riding a horse on his way to a picnic
English gentleman with whiskers in tam o shanter cap riding a horse on his way to a picnic in the country. A carriage with ladies behind him, and a peasant in smock in the foreground. Mr

But am I not the nobler thro thy love. Illustration by Florence Harrison to Tennyson s
But am I not the nobler thro thy love. Illustration by Florence Harrison to Tennysons poem, Love and Duty. Date: c.1920

Whereto the other with downward brow... Illustration by Florence Harrison to Tennyson s
Whereto the other with downward brow... Illustration by Florence Harrison to Tennysons poem, Dream of Fair Women. Date: c.1920

Advert, When Romance Calls, Paramount Pictures. 1926

Music cover, Tenderly, Joan Crawford
Music cover, Tenderly (from the MGM film Torch Song), Joan Crawford. Lyrics by Jack Lawrence, music by Walter Gross. 1947

Young romance
Small boy and girl in warm fur-trimmed white winter coats out in the snowy weather. Artist: Ellen Jessie Andrews Date: 1904

Country folk. Young romance
Young couple embracing. Artist: Frances Brundage Date: 1903

Cartoon, Alone At Last! 1923

Bystander masthead by Gordon Conway, 20 May 1931
Masthead design for The Bystander magazine front cover by artist and designer Gordon Conway featuring an elegant couple fishing by a river while spring lambs gamble joyfully among the flowers behind

I don t want him, my dear by H. M. Bateman
" I don t want him, my dear - you buy him." Two sophisticated women regard an unpromising male specimen and discuss the merits of purchasing him. Date: 1930

Their eyes met - Nanki Poo and Yum-Yum
Their eyes met, Nanki Poo and Yum-Yum - The Story of the Mikado by Ws Gilbert. 1921

He saw Yum-Yum enter the garden - The Story of the Mikado by Ws Gilbert. 1921

Cartoon, Lord Coleridge, A Good Judge, Too
Cartoon, What! Again, Lord Coleridge? A Good Judge, Too. John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (1820-1894), British lawyer, judge, and Lord Chief Justice of England

Little Women - Jo and Fritz reunited under an umbrella
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Jo and Fritz (Professor Bhaer) reunited under an umbrella. 1880

Little Women - Christmas entertainments
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Christmas entertainments, in which the friends and family dress up and act out scenes from a romantic melodrama

Illustration, Aladdin and the Beautiful Buddir al Buddoor
Illustration, Aladdin and the Beautiful Princess Buddir al Buddoor, daughter of the Sultan. He falls in love with her and is determined to win her, despite his humble status. Date: 1950s

Cinderella, by Minnie Asprey
Cinderella, The Prince, by Minnie Asprey. circa 1918

Girl giving a boy and apple with caption The Old Old Story
Greetings card showing a girl giving a boy and apple with the caption The Old Old Story, 1920s Date: 1920s

Illustration from Reigen Magazine, Germany, 1924 of a coy and romantic couple Date: 1924

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales -- The Franklins Tale, a romantic story set in Brittany, about a couple, Dorigen and Arveragus, who decide that their marriage will be an equal one

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales -- The Squires Tale, an unfinished (interrupted) story in the form of an epic romance about Genghis Khan (named here Cambuscan or Cambyuscan)

Lady receiving a rose from a gentleman in a park under a statue. She says, Its not a favor, its only fair. She thinks, You intrigue me

Lady and her gentleman caller writing and reading in a garden terrace, 19th century. She says, Farewell, I count on you giving us a few days. She thinks, I will tremble if he doesn t come

Heloise d Argenteuil, died 1164
Heloise d Argenteuil, nun, scholar and writer, best known for her romance with Abelard, died 1164. The large purse hanging from her belt is called an escarcelle (aumoniere or almoner)

The discovery of the code of love
A maiden leads a knight in a suit of armour to a castle. The discovery of the code of love. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico after Pelagio Pelagi from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Knights sepulchral monuments and their coats of arms in a church. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico after Alessandro Sanquirico from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Duel between the Chamberlain of Tancarville
Combat between the Chamberlain of Tancarville and Sire of Harcourt, Normandy, 1300. The duel was halted by the King of France

Medieval ceremony of the creation of a knight
Ceremony of the creation of a knight. A king dubs a kneeling warrior with a sword, while pages hold his spurs and shield with coat of arms. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico after P.L

Charlemagnes Paladins saying their goodbyes
Paladins, warriors of Charlemagnes court, saying their last goodbyes to their bridesmaids in the gallery of the Palace of Bourgtheroude, Normandy

Variety of jousting shields and helmets from a medieval tournament. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico after Biasioli from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

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