Smock Collection

Childrens nursery, Chorlton Union Cottage Homes, Styal
View inside a childrens nursery at the cottage homes in Styal, Cheshire, with a large group of girls and boys posing for their photograph

Dandelion Clock by Muriel Dawson
Charming illustration of a small child, probably a little boy in blue smock and shorts seated on a small tuffet of grass and blowing a dandelion clock while clutching a favourite doll in his other

Little girl playing in a garden by Muriel Dawson
A little girl in a red smock standing in a garden, by Muriel Dawson. Date: circa 1920s

Infants playground, Lambeth Schools, West Norwood, London
Infants (girls and boys together) at play at the Lambeth Schools for workhouse children on Elder Road, West Norwood, South London. A young Charlie Chaplin was briefly a resident of the Schools in 1898

Girl Reading in Tree
A little girl hides, high up in a linden tree, reading her book

Good-Night, Everybody! by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl heads off to bed. 1936

West Country Yokel
A sterotypical image of a West country yokel, drinking scrumpy

Maypole, Ickwell, Beds
The children of Ickwell, Bedfordshire continue the English tradition of Maypole dancing on the village green as part of their May Day festivities

Maypole Dancing, Ickwell
The children of Ickwell, Bedfordshire continue the English tradition of Maypole dancing on the village green as part of their May Day festivities

Fruits of Idleness - a young man has passed out from drinking too much alcohol. circa 1830s

Horse-drawn float in carnival, Eastbourne, Sussex
Horse-drawn float led by Jim Wicking in a carnival at Eastbourne, Sussex. circa 1962

Blything Union Childrens Home, Yoxford, Suffolk
Children and staff stand in front of the Blything Union childrens home at Yoxford, Suffolk. The home, opened in the early 1900s, accommodated pauper children away from the workhouse

Little Fellah by Muriel Dawson
Charming rear view of a small child in a smock and large hat carrying a rag doll rather carelessly. Date: c.1925

Good Boy by Muriel Dawson
A little boy in a charming blue smock and shorts outfit, washes his face using a flannel, soap and metal wash bowl

Illustration, My Pussy - girl and cat
Illustration, My Pussy - girl with large umbrella and a small cat. late 19th century

Soldiers of Acostamientos. Culveriner and crossbowman
Soldiers of Acostamientos. The Acostamiento was a salary granted by the king to his vassals under which they were obliged to serve him in war. Culveriner (left). Crossbowman (right). Engraving

Self-portrait with a Palette by Anna Bilinska-Bohdanowiczowa
Anna Bilinska-Bohdanowiczowa (1857-1893). Polish painter. Self-portrait with a Palette, 1887. 19th Century Polish Art Gallery (Sukiennice Museum). National Museum of Krakow. Poland. Date: 2018

A Young Shaver by William Henry Hunt Date: 19th century

G. F. Watts RA, artist, painter, sculptor
George Frederick Watts RA, Victorian artist, painter and sculptor. Date: 1898

Workshop of Corot
Commemorating the death of the artist, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot who is shown at his easel, painting a landscape whilst smoking on his pipe. Date: 1796-1875

BALLAD / THE GARDENER
THE GARDENER The gardener offers the maiden his flowers, but includes a weed, so she rejects him and foretells his death - the new fallen snow to be your smock Date: traditional

Conrad H. Lomax, composition artist Date: circa 1930

Child with tennis racket Date: circa 1890

Regency designs for wooden chin pieces for falling animals
Regency designs for wooden chin pieces to protect animals when they fall, and to keep away boring Christians. The Puzzle for the Dog, The Puzzle for the Horse, The Puzzle for Turk, Frenchman, or

Rosa McDermott and her mother hearing a prophecy from a Romany woman fortune-teller during a walk. They wear wide hooped petticoats

English gentleman on an old nag rejected by a man on a bay horse. Mr. Jack Bunting rejected. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by John Leech from Robert Smith Surtees Plain or

Porcelain vases, jardiniere, ashtray, figures, etc
Porcelain vases, jardiniere, ashtray, figures from Geo Rouards shop A la Paix, 30 avenue d Opera. Modeles de Geo Rouard A la Paix

The House That Jack Built, by Minnie Asprey. This is the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn... circa 1918

Mary Adshead (1904 - 1995), English painter, muralist, illustrator and designer. Date: 1927

Meadow ladies smock, Cardamine pratensis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1800

Cuckoo flower, Cardamine pratensis. Handcoloured woodblock engravings from James Mains Popular Botany, Orr and Smith, London, 1835. James Main (1775-1846) was a Scottish gardener, botanist and writer

Cuckooflower, Cardamine pratensis, Cardamine des pres. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lebrun after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr

Foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, and ladys smock
Foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, Didynamia, 1, 2, and ladys smock, Cardamine pratensis, Tetradynamia, 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F

Margaret Ethel MacDonald, Ramsey MacDonald and children
Margaret Ethel MacDonald, Ramsey MacDonald and two of their children. 1910

Campo Voltantin, near Salve Bridge, Bilbao, Spain. circa 1905

Group photo of children, the girls wearing smocks
Group photo of children in a garden, the girls wearing smocks. circa 1900

Musicians seated on barrels, Brittany, Northern France
Two musicians seated on top of barrels, Brittany, Northern France. They are playing the native bagpipe or biniou (right) and a flageolet (left). 1922

Group of children wearing wild flowers, Somerset, England
Group of children wearing garlands of wild flowers round their faces, Somerset, England. Date: 1922

Sir Alfred Munnings (1878-1959), Painter, particularly of equine subjects, and President of the Royal Academy from 1944-49. Outspoken opponent of Modernism

Pig with bottles on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Carte de visite - child in a studio photo, Croydon
Carte de visite - child in a studio photo with a model of a chicken, Croydon. late 19th century

Doris Zinkeisen preparing designs for the Queen Mary
Doris Zinkeisen at work in her studio where she was in the midst of preparing designs for the cabaret bar of the liner, the Queen Mary. Date: 1935

Curtis British Entomology Plate 418
Coleoptera: Oxyporus maxillosus = Creophilus maxillosus (Scarce Oxyporus) [Plant: Cardamine hirsuta (Hairy Ladies? Smock)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 179
Coleoptera: Elaphrus uliginosus (Dark-legged Elaphrus) [Plant: Cardamine pratensis (Common Ladies? Smock)] Date: 1824-39

Winter snow at Gibraltar Mill, Great Bardfield, Essex, England. Built as a smock mill c. 1704-5 (during the Siege of Gibraltar), then raised as a tower mill in the 1750s. Date: 18th century

An elderly Dutch woman wearing a headscarf, long dark dress and clogs, carrying a large bundle of hay on her back Date: 1930s

Santa over Town Date: 1950

Traditional Costumes from the Bresse region of France
Traditional Costumes from the Bresse region - a former French province. It is located in the regions of Rhone-Alpes, Bourgogne, and Franche-Comte of eastern France

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