Starry Collection

Long Live Estonia! A patriotic postcard, featuring a female personification of the State of Estonia, waving the Estonian Flag before a night sky. Date: circa 1920

Peter Pan / Theatre Poster
Peter Pan and Wendy fly over the rooftops in a poster to advertise the stage show

Illustrated London News Christmas number cover, 1904
A beautiful fairy with wings, looks thoughtful as she gazes out to the sea and starry sky. Front cover of The Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1904. Date: 1904

Whither Away by Florence Mary Anderson
A group of delicate looking fairies and pixies ride around on dragonflies and bees. c.1925

The Moonchild by Florence Mary Anderson
A small, angelic looking child is carried through the sky in a basket held by a colourful group of fairies and pixies. c.1925

Elspeth Phelps advertisement, 1920
Lady Elcho, formerly Lady Violet Manners (born 1888), wife of Hugo Francis Charteris, Lord Elcho and heir to the Earl of Weymss. She was sister to Lady Diana Manners

The Gondo-liar by Leon Heron
A gondolier who, according to the pun in the title, is less than honest, reaches over his lady passenger as if to kiss her. A large moon hangs over the Venetian canal. Date: 1930

Saffron Walden by Madge Howard
Saffron Walden in Essex, East Anglia, UK, featuring a street of half-timbered houses with pageting (the decorative plaster work typical of the region) covered with snow on a peaceful starry evening

Night slid down. Illustration by Florence Harrison to Tennysons poem The Gardener s
Night slid down. Illustration by Florence Harrison to Tennysons poem The Gardeners Daughter. Date: c.1920

High Above the Town by Florence Mary Anderson
A group of children with a baby fly high above a town in a winged cradle, accompanied by a fairy. c.1925

Father Christmas in snowy, starry village
Father Christmas parks his sleigh in the road of a night-time snowy, starry village and delivers presents to a house. Date: 1960s

Starry Gazey Pie, Mousehole, Cornwall
A mouthwatering example of a Starry Gazey Pie, served up on Tom Bawcocks Eve (23 December) at Mousehole in Cornwall. The dish, with fish heads and tails sticking out of it, is unique to Mousehole

Trysting Time is Kissing Time by Wilton Williams
Two 18th century lovers kiss on a balcony under a starry sky

WW2 - Berlin Hotel
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 children's story book, Berlin Hotel, written by Vicki Baum. The image shows a building under a starry night sky, with searchlights beaming up. Date: 1944

WW2 Christmas Card, Bethlehem
A WW2 Christmas greetings card illustrated with a painting titled Bethlehem, which portrays a soldier standing in a dignified manor, with his rifle, under a starry night sky. Date: circa 1940s

The Astronomy Lesson
This oil painting portrays a young lady wearing a pink dress, looking out at the starry, night sky through a telescope from a seated position, aided by an astronomer behind her. Date: circa 1923

Starry globefish, white-spotted puffer and sun fish
Starry globefish, Tetrodon lagocephalus 42, white-spotted puffer, Arothron hispidus 43, and sun fish, Mola mola 44. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelms Encyclopedia of

Poets daffodil, Narcissus poeticus subsp. radiiflorus (Starry poets narcissus, Narcissus stellaris). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after Edwin Dalton Smith from John Lindley

Thorny skate, Amblyraja radiata. Vulnerable
Thorny skate, Amblyraja radiata (Starry ray, Raja radiata). Vulnerable. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his Natural History of British Fishes, Donovan and F.C

Trifles Light as Air by Baird
A toy and balloon seller in a fancy costume. Date: 1929

Curtis British Entomology Plate 563
Lepidoptera: Odontia dentalis = Cynaeda dentalis (Starry Brindle, Starry Brindled Pearl) [Plant: Echium vulgare (Common Viper-grass)] Date: 1824-39

Starry Gazey Pie, Ship Inn, Mousehole, Cornwall
A mouthwatering example of a Starry Gazey Pie, served up on Tom Bawcocks Eve (23 December) at Mousehole in Cornwall. The dish, with fish heads and tails sticking out of it, is unique to Mousehole

Starry village with snow and Christmas sleigh
Snowy village at Christmas with starry night and Santas sleigh in the street. Date: 1960s

Celestial interior of James Talbots Fokker plane
An exceedingly luxurious cabin of a Super-Trimotor Fokker aeroplane owned by Mr James A. Talbot. Clearly visible is the celestial theme of the decor on the upholstered chairs, walls and roof

La Navigation Aerienne by J. Lecornu
Beautiful cover to La Navigation Aerienne featuring an airship flying through the clouds over a cityscape. 1914

Santa Claus climbing into a chimney by Charles Robinson
Illustration of Santa Claus climbing into a chimney pot with a full moon behind him. Date: 1906

Lady smoking a Batschari cigarette
A fashionable lady smokes under the starry sky - advertisement for A Batschari Imported Oriental Cigarettes. Date: 1924

Spain. Monzon. Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Romeral. Starry rib vault and squinch on the cruise. 14th-16th centuries. Aragon

Spain. Castile an Leon. Briviesca. Monastery of Santa Clara.15th and 16th century. Built by Juan Gil de Hontanon (1480-1526). Starry dome. Flamboyant

Cathedral of Santo Domingo de la Calzada. Nave. La Rioja. Sp
Gothic art. Cathedral of Santo Domingo de la Calzada. Nave built between the ages 14 and 15 and reformed in the 16 century with starry vault. La Rioja. Spain

Front cover of La Navigation Aerienne by J. Lecornu, published by Vuibert & Nony Editeurs, Paris. Date: 1903

Arothron stellatus, or Pennants Globefish, also known as Starry Toadfish and Blackspotted Puffer. Date: 1865

Raia radiata, or Starry Ray. Date: 1862

Mustelus asterias, or Starry smooth-hound, a species of houndshark. Date: 1862

WW1 - Zeppelin downed over Potters Bar
WW1 - An illustration depicting the four stages of a Zeppelin raider bursting into flames, and its fall through the starry night sky over Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, England

Starry globe madrepore coral, Madrepora.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Jugend front cover, cherub with stars
Front cover design for Jugend magazine, depicting a cherub unveiling a white banner bearing the magazines name across a starry sky. Date: 1898

The New Man in the Moon by S. Longley
A demure Columbine sits in the branches of a tree with her Pierrot who stares at her adoringly under a moonlit, starry sky. Date: 1924

Donkey and owl at night
A donkey and owl alone together in the night, the crescent moon and stars shining down on them in this tranquil scene. 1925

The Star That Would Not Light by Hugh Williams
A group of child like angels gather together in the night sky but try as they might, they cannot get one lone star to light and twinkle. Date: 1926

Delineator magazine cover August 1927
Stylish art deco front cover featuring a sleek looking blonde woman with fashionable cropped hair positioned against an inky blue starlit sky

Comic Tightrope Walker
A crowd looks up at a comic tightrope walker in starry shorts

Ww1 Cartoon / Usa Joins
The Germans starry nightmare as the USA enters the war

Stained Glass Design
A pretty design for painted glass by a leading designer which includes a standard orange bush in a tub and a star-strewn sky

Hyacinthoides Non-Script
BLUEBELL named by Gerard the lily-leaved starry Iacinth

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