Vintage Children's Illustrations

A collection of nostalgic trade cards featuring charming illustrations of children in various playful and historical scenarios, with a vintage aesthetic.

A boating party : a gentleman, braces lowered, lights a cigarette while his lady friends feed the swans. Date: 1886

Boy with lance tilting at a mobile quintain operated by another boy, 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London, 1876.

'LATE RIDERS IN THE ROW' a sedate couple make their way along Rotten Row in London's Hyde Park. Date: 1898

Street boy with soldier, Johan Braakensiek, 1870 - 1940 drawing paper. India ink (ink) pen

Satirical illustration of Hitler bearing down on an old man and a young lady.

Illustration by Randolph Caldecott 1846-1886 picture shows a man blowing a horn on a beach while a family baths in the sea c1880

Two children play with a model railway set out on the floor. Date: 1902

Labor. Two men with wheelbarrows, porters at work on a quay. On the right is a lean gentleman in riseum, hands on the back. In the background tonnes, two more piles and a stone bridge.

Wincenty Wodzinowski (1866-1940), "Mia A Baba Rooster"; Wis A (Krakow); around 1908 (1903-00-00-1913-00-00);

Parisian Cafe Scene. Paul Starrett Sample (1896-1974). 109 x 160cm.

Street scene with the detail of a house with a painting of a couple in traditional dress in Wolkenstein, in the Val Gardena, Dolomites Mountains, South Tyrol, and Northern Italy.

Franciszek Łubieński (1875-1925), from the Sieradz region. Woman with a child; Świt (Warsaw; publisher); around 1911 (after 12.11.1911) (1905-00-00-1911-00-00);

Hunter, from the Occupations for Women series (N166) for Old Judge and Dogs Head Cigarettes 1887 Issued by Goodwin & Company The "Occupations for Women" series of trading cards (N166) was issued by Goodwin & Company in 1887 to promote Old Judge and Dogs Head Cigarettes. The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns all 50 cards in the series, as well as three duplicate cards.. Hunter, from the Occupations for Women series (N166) for Old Judge and Dogs Head Cigarettes 400753

MATTHEW FLINDERS and GEORGE BASS survey the Australian coast in the tiny 'Tom Thumb' with a crew of one boy Date: 1795 - 1796

Antoni Kozakiewicz (1841-1929), old woman in a winter landscape; around 1910 (1905-00-00-1915-00-00);

PROPOSAL - A gentleman proposes on bended knee. Date: 1867

'Brother and Sister', late 18th-early 19th century, (1913).Artist: Adam Buck

After the group photo : Can't you develop it right away - No, I need a red light for that. - Well then, use our sign ! Date: 1920

Three boys playing at Fox Hunting, two on their hobby horses and one wearing a fox suit! They even have two dogs with them. Date: circa 1910s

Man and children throw snowballs, Gijsbertus Johannes van Overbeek, 1892 - 1947 drawing A man and a boy and girl throw snowballs to a snowman. One of the balls has hit the head of the doll, which falls from the body. paper. India ink (ink). pencil pen throwing snowballs. (making a) snowman

Father Christmas with is sackful of presents and a tree Date: late 19th century

"I Dream - Ice Cream". "I Dream - Ice Cream"

Hussars of Germany, Couples in love in Germany, 1913, Meißen, Husaren Im Garten Der Schütze

Two Little Girls with Bonnets 1883 England. Pen and brown ink and watercolor, over traces of graphite, on cream wove paper (discolored to tan), perimeter mounted to cream wood-pulp laminate board . Kate Greenaway

How the people live. A poor man and woman, in rags shrouded, hands in the pockets, walking on the street. In the background a group of three men is talking to each other for a housing row. On the back of the leaf a sketch of a standing man with ax or hammer. Used as an illustration at the start of Chapter XI in the book: a forgotten chapter: Caucasian slaves (1898).

France, 19th century - Romantic stroll, engraving

Children striped dress dots bouquet violetts mother day love faithfulness innocence virginity cute kitsch nostalgia romantic sentimental chromos ephemera cutout decorative arts victorian edwardian illustration historic history Titel ancient siblings with letter and flowers 19th century Germany

illustration of English tales, folk tales, and ballads. A man and a woman holding hands

"MARIQUITA PEREZ" y "JUANIN". Anuncio publicitario de los muñecos que tuvieron los niños y niñas de numerosas familias españolas entre los años 1940 y 1950. España.

Mark Twain (1835-1910). American writer. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1885. Engraving by M. Klinkicht. Colored.

Album Tangoville-sur-Mer - A sketch couple; Anna Held with a stranger, Myriam Danesco, with a stranger, Marcel Fouquier and a unidentified man addresses a woman sitting unidentified SEM (Georges Goursat, says - 1863-1934) / Saud� Jean. "Album Tangoville-sur-Mer - A couple sketched; Anna Held with an unknown, Myriam Danesco, with a stranger, Marcel Fouquier and an unidentified man addresses an unidentified sitting woman". Color lithography.

Woman with fishing line, William Nicholson, 1898 print Print is part of a book. Illustration in calendar month on the opposite leaf. paper fisherman. adult woman. calendar, almanac

Marse Theodore' President Theodore Roosevelt as a southern plantation owner, riding on a donkey, holding an umbrella, a jug of 'Corn Lickker' behind him, and William Loeb walking behind, holding the donkey's tail. In the background, perched on a tree, is a bird labelled 'Vardaman'.

Picture series Chinese I (1880) (Paris), two Chinese boys sitting in front of a love pot, Liebig picture, historical, digitally restored reproduction of a collectors picture from c. 1900

A barber brushing the hair of a man who has very little hair. Colour lithograph after H. Heath.

Little girl with poppy , Girls, Poppies. Louis Prang & Company Collection

Valve couple (illustration accompanying a poem: illusion)

Picture series, woman in portrait with headdress, Spain, cactus, digitally restored reproduction of a collector's picture from c. 1900, Europe

A small girl (Phyllis) posts a letter while out walking the dog with her mother and says with a sudden clarity of understanding, "So that's where Aunty Mabel lives". Date: 1922

Musical instruments, woman playing a musical instrument, triangle, historical, digital reproduction of a 19th-century collector's card .

2 children in boxes, 1920, A man poses in a railway station environment while children humorously peer out from inside suitcases, historical photo

A group of children in fancy dress standing in a line. Date: circa 1900

Push on with it, Mohamed -- a British sailor riding on a reluctant white mule, being pushed by a thin Egyptian man. Date: 1916

Un Mangeur de Coeurs. Albert Ehrenswaard ". Man with monocle among women. Watercolor by Fritz von Dardel, 1850 Nordic

Historic greeting card, birthday card with a child and a basket of flowers, France, 1890, Historic, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century, Europe

Postcard of a Cowgirl Ready for the Roundup. Cow Girl, Ready for the Roundup.

Two Young Dutch Children - both in clogs and rather wonderful outfits. The elder (left) may be blowing some kind of whistle Date: circa 1914

Silver Thread, 'O uncle Ned! The urchin said. Your hair is like a silver thread.' , People, Tobacco products, 19th Century American Trade Cards

1910s TWO ROMANTIC PILGRIMS MAN AND WOMAN KISSING IN MIDST OF AUTUMN SCENIC ILLUSTRATION FOR LIFE MAGAZINE

A front cover illustration showing a stylish couple overlooking a busy London park from their balcony. Date: 18th June 1927

A deputy is the people's servant by Golovanov, Leonid Fyodorovich (1904-)/ Russian State Library, Moscow/ 1947/ Russia/ Colour lithograph/ Soviet political agitation art/ Poster and Graphic design

Three happy boys flying their kites. Date: 1912

Lerwick. , People, Sewing machines, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Santa Claus and little child, historical illustration

Voddenjoden, c. 1899 - in or before 1952 print Three discussing men at a stall with different things including a bird cage and a billboard. paper. printing ink the Jews, Jewish life. commercial transactions

Pearline the queen of the bath as well as the laundry. , Children, Household soap, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Indians, digitally restored reproduction of a public domain collective picture from ca 1900, Liebig picture series Handschatten, Schattenspiele (1892)

The Moon Redhead / First Year - N ° 26 / Sunday June 3rd 1877 / President Grévy, by Gill

'Rub-a-dub dub three men in a tub...' Date: Late 19th century

Reine de joie , Kissing, Hugging. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). Prints and Drawings

Eskimos with a sledge Date: circa 1900

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A group of young women in an array of rainbow bright swimwear skip and run along a beach. Date: 1927

May Your Love In Favor Shine On Your Devoted Valentine.. Postcard Private Collection

Personified map, c. 1880, Ireland, depicted with peasant women, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Europe

Archival illustration, Native Hawaiian man and woman stand together holding freshly caught fish

Family reunion 1904 by Niko Pirosmani (1862-1918), Russian, Georgian primitivist painter, who posthumously rose to prominence.

Cover Of Country Gentleman Agricultural Magazine From The Early 20th Century. .

November in the Stable, Horses - Riding & Racing

Children Sledding Postcard Private Collection

Crowd of Smokers.

Fairy tale Hansel and Gretel series, Hans spreads bread on the second course, but oh dear it does not lie long, digitally improved reproduction of a collector's picture from c. 1900

Spain (20th c.). Franco's dictatorship. Post-war. Propaganda poster. Girls dressed with the uniform of Falange starring the campaign for the presents of Three King's Day of the Organizacin Juvenil del Movimiento (National Movement Youth Organization).

Erotic scene from the Victorian era, man and woman having sex in bed, after a painting by Peter Fendi (1796-1842) from the series Enjoy Love, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original

Adolf Hitler on vaccation circa 1934

Happy family walking in park. Poster in retro style. Vector illustration

Man and woman having sex, Erotic illustration by Edouard-Henri Avril (21 May 1849 - 1928), a French painter and graphic artist, under the name Paul Avril he became known as an illustrator of erotic to pornographic novels, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Edward Penfield, Man in Yellow Suit on Bicycle, October Harper's, 1885-1915, zincograph on paper.

Buck-legged boy, while fishing the line is broken. Zorn, art supplement in the Zur Guten Stunde 1897, after a painting by F. Engel, Bockbeinchens Ungl...

Advertisement for The Fairbridge Society, a charity founded by Kingsley Fairbridge in 1909 for the furtherance of child emigration to the colonies to help orphans and impoverished children in Britain. This advert shows a young boy 'Left behind!' in the slums of England while his friends are enjoying the open space of Australia. 1954

A blacksmith on the left. A woman breastfeeding right. In the center, a man smoking the pipe.

Never too late to run - Illustration shows octogenarian Henry G. Davis as a runner being attended to by Arthur P. Gorman who is putting a bandage on Davis'es right knee. Political Cartoon, 1904

Can you give me something to make my husband sleep at night! , Drugstores, Children, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

I know of no other such country where a man can breathe so freely!, Koretsky, Viktor Borisovich (1909-1998)

Only your gift is able to help these children. Vereeniging Help for Onuurshuinders, c. 1914 poster Image of two children in the snow. paper

Edward Penfield, Man on a Beach, July Harper's, 1885-1915, zincograph on paper.

Picture series The Story of Robinson Crusoe, Robinsons farewell to his island, together with his rescuers, digitally restored reproduction of a collectors picture from c. 1900

Frontispiece illustration, Mrs Tickler's Caravan, showing Mrs Tickler emptying a teapot. Date: 1934

Vivian, Lottie Miller, a woman and a man at Blindstrub's Village , Nightclubs. Jack Miller Collection

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