Verse Collection (page 3)

Postcard design artwork - Get well quick! A parent (bearing grapes) and a nurse (with a pot plant!) fussing and petting an ill young child in bed. Date: circa 1937

Postcard design - Someones Birthday is today
Postcard design artwork - Someones Birthday is today - a child pushing their baby sibling in a pram. Date: circa 1937

Postcard design - Birthday Kisses
Postcard design artwork - Birthday Kisses! - a little girl kneeling on a stool writing a letter with four big kisses. Date: circa 1937

Comic postcard, Little girl on the beach with bucket and spade Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Girl and boy with overflowing rabbit hutch Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little girl walking in the rain Date: 20th century

Comc postcard, Little boy introducing himself as "that sort of guy"Date
Comc postcard, Little boy introducing himself as " that sort of guy" Date: 20th century

Comc postcard, Little boys playing cards
Comic postcard, Little boys playing cards Date: 20th century

Birthday postcard, Little girl writing a card Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little girl with cat Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Toddler with teddy bear and ball Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Scottish boy and girl sitting on the grass Date: 20th century

Birthday postcard, Little girl and boy, 2nd birthday Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little girl getting into bed Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little boy going upstairs to bed Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little girl running to post a card Date: 20th century

Birthday postcard, Little girl carrying a parcel Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little girl posting a card Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little boy posting a card Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Happy diner in restaurant Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Girl chats with cockerel - rhyme by H J Snell Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Edwardian woman at sea in large hat Date: early 20th century

Christmas postcard, Man at a table with pudding and stout Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Pretty woman on board ship Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man chats with woman fishing Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Courting couple at the seaside Date: 20th century

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Whos making the Brave New World
The Caption verse is Whos making the Brave New World - lets see - Whos making the Brave New World? You-and-Me! This is a reference to Aldous Huxleys dystopian novel Brave New World - a world that you

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - The Sun is Out
The verse on the card contains the lines Coupon trouble grows - shes naught to dry - but pegs. Clothes rationing began in June 1941 and did not end until 1949

Albert Craig, the Surrey Poet
Albert Craig (1849 - 1909), known as The Surrey Poet. Craig was a well-known character who would attend cricket and football matches to write verses and short essays describing the players

Craig, The Surrey Poet, haranguing the crowd at the Oval cricket ground on the subject of Max Pemberton and professional football

A man offers his friend his beautiful slavegirl. Two friends watch a woman sleeping in a four-poster bed. Les deux amis. After Athenaeus

A man and woman embrace under a hanged man. The widow of Ephesus and the sentinel canoodle under her husbands corpse hanging from a gibbet. The Ephesian matron. Le matrone d Ephise

A pastor tricking his dumb neighbors wife to strip naked. Pastor John with Peter and his wife Magdalene. Neighbor Peters mare. Le jument du compere Pierre

Naked woman up to her knees in water. King Candaules and the doctor of law. Le roi candaule et le maitre en droit. Lithograph after an illustration by Charles Martin from Jean de la Fontaines Contes

Cupid with bow and arrow aiming at the distance. Winged hearts flutter around. In imitation of Anacreon. l amour mouille. Imitation d Anacreon

Woman wearing a seethrough frilly veil around her bust. Portrait of Iris, a beauty to rival Venus. Imitation of Anacreon. A woman poses naked like the statue of the famous Greek poet

Constance seduces the gentleman Camillus
Woman removing a young mans breeches. Constance seduces the gentleman Camillus. The amorous courtesan. La courtisane amoureuse

A man allowing a stranger to kiss his wife. William watching a stranger kiss his wife Petronella. The kiss returned. Le baiser rendu

Woman lifting her dress to reveal a painting of an ass with a pack-saddle on her belly. The pack saddle. Le bat. Lithograph after an illustration by Charles Martin from Jean de la Fontaines Contes et

A lustful monk Lucius tricks and seduces a young girl
A lustful monk Lucius tricks and seduces a young virginal peasant girl in his cave. The hermit. L Ermite. Lithograph after an illustration by Charles Martin from Jean de la Fontaines Contes et

Man with cuckolds horns holding a magick cup
Man with cuckolds horns in ruff, doublet and cape holding a magick cup. The enchanted goblet. La coupe enchantee. After Ludovico Ariosto

Alaciel lifting her dress to expose herself
Alaciel, the beautiful daughter of the Sultan of Alexandria, lifting her dress to expose her genitals. The fiancee of the King of Garba. La fiancee du Roi de Garbe

A peasant up a tree disturbs a courting couple below. The bumpkin in search of his calf. Le villageois qui cherche son veau

Naked woman clutching coins in her hands. The miser Gasparins wife seduced for money by Gulphar, only to lose the cash. A Money-Minded Woman Meets Her Match. A femme avare galant escroc

Maid in stockings and garters embraced by a man. Maidservant assaulted by her upholsterer employer. The vindicated servant girl. Le servante justifiee. After Marguerite de Navarres l Heptameron

Woman in seethrough slip groped by two men in a dark bedroom near a cradle. The innkeepers wife seduced by Pinucio and another guest. The cradle. Le Berceau

A peasant kneels before his lord in front of a chateau
A 17th century peasant kneels before his lord in front of a chateau. The peasant who angered his lord. Le paysan qui avoit offense son seigneur

The handsome Joconde discovers his wife in bed with the valet. Joconde, from Orlando Furiosa. Lithograph handcoloured in pochoir (stencil)

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