Shy Collection (page 3)

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

Gipsy Kids & Pram
A boy plays on an old pram, with his rather camera-shy sister beside him. A young woman, probably their mother, watches them from a caravan

Shy Man in Train
A shy traveller is disturbed by a group of females who invade the railway compartment he hoped to have all to himself

Hawfinch (Morris) 1851
(Cocothraustes vulgaris) A bird of shy and retiring habits... its presence may easily escape detection

Kingsey. Water Babies
Toms shy encounter with a female water baby

Gipsy reading a palm
A gipsy reading the palm of a shy girl

Bathing Beauty 1930S
Girl in red bathing costume enjoys the breeze on a boat sailing on very calm water

France Disarmed 1929
The shy virgin Marianne (France) is reluctantly persuaded by her friends John Bull and Uncle Sam to take off her armour

Shy Girl at Party 1889
A shy little girl at her first party

Girl Hides Behind a Fan
A shy young woman hides her mouth and lower face behind a fan which is ornamented with a design incorporating foliage, berries & flowers. Date: 1880s

Almshouse at Coventry
Almswomen in their traditional costume sitting in the interior courtyard of Fords Hospital, Coventry, a fine 16th century building. The cat, though, is camera-shy

Introducing Lady Friend
A bird introduces his shy girl-friend to his friends

Kid Introduced
A shy kid is introduced to an old dog

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