Shy Collection (page 2)

Little girl with envelope on a Valentine card
Little girl with an envelope To one I love on a Valentine card. Date: early 20th century

Valentine card, Alpine Love. 20th century

Johann Caspar Keerl
JOHANN CASPAR KEERL Reference books are shy about listing this German musician, about whom we know nothing except that he was German and practised music. Date: early 18th century

Girl on Rock 1950S
Fifties brunette, standing atop a barnacle encrusted rock in the sea, recreates the Birth of Venus wearing a plaid swimsuit & hiding her modesty with a towel. Date: 1950s

Oxford Bags 1920S P. C
Girlfriend too shy to sit on lovers lap sits on his Oxford bags instead. A joke on the voluminous trouser style popular at the time. Date: late 1920s

Female Type / Model 1918
LE DEBUT DU MODELE - on her first assignment, she is shy about revealing all. Date: 1918

Trying the Ring for Size
THE RING A shy bride tries it for size Date: 1828

The bashful swain
A boy with flowers is too shy to make advances to a pretty girl. Artist: Ethel Parkinson Date: 1911

Faint heart
Tongue tied boy too shy to talk to pretty girl at the dance. Artist: Ethel Parkinson Date: 1910

Shy by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912), engraved by Theodor Knesing (1840-?). Date: 1884

Girl with a fan on a New Year card. circa 1890s

Favourite Sayings - Beware of man-traps
Black and white lantern slide of a fox crouched in front of an animal trap.. Part of Box 197 Sayings, Boswell Colelction. An old fox is shy of a trap. Lantern slide creations of C. H

A Day at the Fair. Coconut shy. Hurry up children! Hi! Hi! Hi! Who wants to have a coconut shy?... Date: circa 1926

He Loves Me Not by Muriel Dawson. A girl and boy sit back to back -- she is blowing the seeds from a dandelion head. Date: 1933

Shy Maori children, New Zealand
Shy Maori children outside a tent, New Zealand. Date: circa 1890s

Poems of Childhood -- two little girls
Two little girls sit facing each other -- one is the hostess, the other is the visitor. Date: 1912

Villarceaux
VILLARCEAUX - a rather undistinguished Frenchman, who did a spot of fighting but was shy about revealing anything more about himself... Date: 17th century

Shy Baby and Horse
A shy baby in its pram, out for a walk with mother and the dog, turns its head away from a curious horse. Date: early 1930s

Taking the Waters - I hope no ones looking! A glamorous lady takes the Strong Sulphur waters and hopes nobody spots her... Date: circa 1905

Amorous Gent makes his move
A suave gent takes advantage of his position and makes his move on his lady love, although his boldness doesn t seem guaranteed to bring success with the coy target of his affections

Sweet Little man making his case to bathing beauties
Sweet Little man making his case to three bathing beauties: " I may not be much to look at, Girls, but I m Reliable." Date: circa 1925

Fliptail the Otter at the fair

Shy. Illustration shows an old man labeled St. Valentine carrying a US Mail letter pouch, delivering valentines to Col. WD Mann, John A. McCall, Henry H. Rogers, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. John D

Prince Henry at the Fresh Air Fund HQ at Loughton
Prince Henry, later Duke of Gloucester, entering wholeheartedly into all the fun of the fair as he has a go a the coconut shy during a visit to the Fresh Air Fund Headquarters at Loughton

Avoiding the Crush by Reginald Higgins
A man smoking a pipe and a young woman with a fashionable eton crop, studiously ignore each other and sit as far apart as possible on a row of deckchairs at a smart seaside resort

Couple getting engaged
Popping the Question. Couple getting engaged with man asking shy woman to marry him Date: 1847

Thomas Hardys Far from the Madding Crowd
Bathsheba and Farmer Boldwood. An illustration from Thomas Hardys Far from the Madding Crowd

Entangled - two lovers play with wool
Entangled - two lovers play with a ball of wool. Date: mid 19th century

Silhouettes of various Derby Day scenes, including a gipsy caravan, a fairground caller with a coconut shy, a photographer, a bookmaker at a racecourse, people enjoying a picnic

Prince Finikin, his mamma and Dolly. The prince offers Dolly a cup of tea, and thinks hes very kind to do so. first published 1879

L Wain. The coconut shy
The Coconut Shy. Artist: Louis Wain. Happy cats having fun shying at coconuts as their brave companions recover the ammunition Date: 1904

Shy Fallow Deer
A shy Fallow Deer, giving the photographer a quizzical look! Date: 1950s

Girl Ice Skater
A teenage girl ice skating in an Alpine setting. Date: 1930s

Iranian Fortune Teller
The old Iranian fortune teller looks up at her shy, smiling young customer : I see a rich and handsome young man from Tehran... Date: 1930s

Tomb and effigy of Boleslas V of Poland

J Hassall. Elsie Marleys grown so fine
Elsie Marleys grown so fine, she won t get up to feed the swine, but lays in bed till after nine, lazy Elsie Marley. 20th century

Music at home - things best left unsaid
Tactless and painfully shy Captain Lovell refuses when implored to sing at a party, and in the process of refusing, accidently rubbishes the performance of his hostess. Date: 1886

Cycling replaces horseriding, 1895
Miss Diana(a novice): Oh Jack, I m certain this thing is going to shy at those horrid pigs! Do you mind leading it past?" Date: 1895

Creatures of Ireland

Bronze age courtship, Aldin
A bronze aged warrior of Denmark with spear and shield courts a rather shy looking woman Date: circa 3000 BC

Little Edwardian girl in a garden, Mid Wales
A little Edwardian girl in a white dress and dark sash poses in a garden, Mid Wales

Sweet and Shy by Muriel Dawson
A little girl wearing a patterned Fair Isle jumper smiles shyly

So Shy by Muriel Dawson
A little girl, with big brown eyes gazes at the viewer, wearing blue beads and a large white sun hat with her red dress

Police introduction service / W H Robinson
Post war Britain will be such a pleasant place to live that even policemen will be able to find time to introduce total strangers in the park. who may otherwise be too shy themselves

Modesty bathing car / W H Robinson
Ideal for those who hold no illusions about their physique, and are reluctant to display it in a bathing suit. Incorporating a collapsible canvas tunnel attached to the back of the car down which

The Ambush
A suitor greets a young woman in a clearing. Illustration by Charles Robinson

Glamourous yet coy young lady
A hand-coloured photographic postcard of a shy young lady in a bright low-cut blue dress with a finger to her mouth and wearing a long string of pearls

Holiday-makers on Hampstead Heath, London, 1872
Engraving showing the large crowds on Hampstead Heath during May holidays, 1872. A number of attractions, including an ice cream stall and a coconut shy, are shown drawing large crowds

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping