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Sprigs Collection

Background imageSprigs Collection: Children with large pudding on a Christmas card

Children with large pudding on a Christmas card
Children attacking a large pudding on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageSprigs Collection: Covent Garden Market, London, Christmas Eve 1846

Covent Garden Market, London, Christmas Eve 1846
Covent Garden Market, usually the sight of gleaming floods of colourful fruits and fine odours, but over the build up of Christmas the garment of green in which complete transformation of sprigs

Background imageSprigs Collection: The Wychelm, Winter

The Wychelm, Winter
This oil painting shows two female flower sellers, holding some sprigs, which came from a basket, filled with them. Date: circa 1923

Background imageSprigs Collection: ENGLISH FUNERAL PICART

ENGLISH FUNERAL PICART
Part of the custom of death in England in the Georgian period. The corpse dressed in a shroud & laid-out in a body- shaped coffin. Mourners take sprigs of Rosemary. Date: 1737

Background imageSprigs Collection: Birthday Greetings Card - hand-coloured

Birthday Greetings Card - hand-coloured
Sincere Birthday Greetings Card - hand-coloured, featuring a young girl in a purple dress surrounded by sprigs of flowers and roses. circa 1930s

Background imageSprigs Collection: Children with Christmas presents and sprigs of holly

Children with Christmas presents and sprigs of holly Date: 1922

Background imageSprigs Collection: Riding in a wheelbarrow

Riding in a wheelbarrow
Xmas. A young girl with sprigs of holly is pushed along in a wheelbarrow by her boy. Date: 1903

Background imageSprigs Collection: Granvale Church - collecting evergreen for Christmas 1869

Granvale Church - collecting evergreen for Christmas 1869
Front cover of Christmas Supplement to The Illustrated London News, showing Victorian men, women and children receiving evergreen from a trader outside to decorate the church for Christmas. Date: 1869

Background imageSprigs Collection: Holly and horseshoe on a cutout Christmas card

Holly and horseshoe on a cutout Christmas card
Holly and horseshoe with envelope on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageSprigs Collection: Children carrying holly and mistletoe

Children carrying holly and mistletoe
Two small children wandering through the snow carrying huge sprigs of holly and mistletoe. c.1920

Background imageSprigs Collection: Holly for sale in Covent Garden

Holly for sale in Covent Garden
Masses of holly for sale at Covent Garden flower market in 1903. Date: 1903

Background imageSprigs Collection: Beetle with holly on a Christmas card

Beetle with holly on a Christmas card
Beetle with holly in the snow on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageSprigs Collection: Mistletoe on a Christmas card

Mistletoe on a Christmas card, with a seasonal verse. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageSprigs Collection: Pudding in flames on a Christmas card

Pudding in flames on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageSprigs Collection: Spray of holly on a Christmas card

Spray of holly on a Christmas card, with star and seasonal poem. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageSprigs Collection: Holly berries

Holly berries
A group of young children huddle together with sprigs of holly in a snowy winter scene. Artist: Ethel Parkinson Date: 1909

Background imageSprigs Collection: Holly for home

Holly for home
A happy family huddle together with sprigs of holly in a snowy winter scene. Artist: Ethel Parkinson Date: 1909

Background imageSprigs Collection: Dutch children at Christmas

Dutch children at Christmas
Little Dutch Children walk down a snowy hillside, carrying sprigs of holly - a Christmas greetings postcard. Artist: Florence Hardy Date: 1906

Background imageSprigs Collection: Dutch Christmas

Dutch Christmas
How happy could I be with either. Amorous Dutch boy with 2 girls holding sprigs of holly. Artist: Florence Hardy Date: 1904

Background imageSprigs Collection: Spray of holly on a New Year card

Spray of holly on a New Year card, with a seasonal verse. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageSprigs Collection: Holly and mistletoe arrangement on a Christmas card

Holly and mistletoe arrangement on a Christmas card
Holly and mistletoe arrangement in a glass vase on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageSprigs Collection: Christmas greetings card with holly

Christmas greetings card with holly
Christmas greetings card (blank) with holly in the top left corner. Date: 20th century

Background imageSprigs Collection: Children decorate a snowman

Children decorate a snowman
Festive scene depicting children decorating a snowman with a newspaper hat and sprigs of holly. Date: c. 1910

Background imageSprigs Collection: Hurrah for Christmas! by Muriel Dawson

Hurrah for Christmas! by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl in a green and red outfit holding sprigs of holly. Date: 1946

Background imageSprigs Collection: Girl pulled in sledge through the wintry countryside

Girl pulled in sledge through the wintry countryside
A little girl, dressed in a red cape with white fur trim and carrying sprigs of holly, is pulled along by her sweetheart. Date: c.1920

Background imageSprigs Collection: A Conference of the Allies 1917

A Conference of the Allies 1917
British officers, presumably home on leave for Christmas, standing behind a curtain with sprigs of mistletoe behind their backs

Background imageSprigs Collection: Food on a plate on a cutout Christmas card

Food on a plate on a cutout Christmas card
Food on a plate with sprigs of holly on a cutout Christmas card. circa 1890s

Background imageSprigs Collection: Boy throwing a snowball

Boy throwing a snowball
Young boy puts down his holly laden sledge to start a snowball fight. Date: 1910

Background imageSprigs Collection: Children carrying sprigs of holly

Children carrying sprigs of holly
" Winter scene. " Bringing home the Holly". Children in the snow carrying holly. Hand coloured postcard illustration. " Date: c.1920

Background imageSprigs Collection: Full Dress 1823

Full Dress 1823
Made from a poppy-colour India muslin with a wadded hem. Ornamented with sprigs of gold & gold lace. Worn with a blond lace scarf, French trimmed gloves & white satin shoes


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