Couple Collection (#96)

Arab family, Algeria, North Africa. Date: 1840

Bystander masthead by Gordon Conway, 20 May 1931
Masthead design for The Bystander magazine front cover by artist and designer Gordon Conway featuring an elegant couple fishing by a river while spring lambs gamble joyfully among the flowers behind

An Al Fresco Ball in France
An al fresco ball in Paris, perhaps, since the scene is framed by palm trees, on the fashionable French Riviera. The cabaret turn in the spotlight is a pair of dancers

Advertisement for the Golden Arrow - British Railways - This could be you - on the Champs Elysees... A glamorous couple relaxing in Paris having travelled via the Luxury service. Date: 1960

Marriage of Harold Barrett and Maudie
Marriage of Harold Barrett (formerly an actor), Stage Manager at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, and ballerina Maudie. circa 1930s

Victorian scrap, natives of Pomerania. circa 1890

Cartoon, George Augustus Sala, writer and journalist, in a theatre box. 1880s

Monument of Sir Richard Vernon and wife
Supposed monument of Sir Richard Vernon (c.1390-1451), English landowner, MP and Speaker of the House of Commons, and his wife, Benedicta de Ludlow, in St Bartholomews Church, Tong, Shropshire. 1864

Couple posing with tennis rackets, probably in Blanefield, Scotland. circa 1890s

Couple in a country lane, Blanefield, Scotland, August 1894. 1894

The Garricks at breakfast, Southampton Street, London
David Garrick and his wife Eva Maria at breakfast in their home at Southampton Street, Strand, London. 18th century

Clandestine wedding or Fleet Marriage, London
Clandestine wedding or Fleet Marriage by St Pauls Church, Covent Garden, London. 18th century

The Bristlewoods See it Through, WWII cartoon
Mrs Bristlewood: " The idea of your going fishing in wartime! And wheres your gas-mask?" Mr Bristlewood: " If you want to know, my gas-masks here - and my knitting too"

Dutch couple in traditional costume. From an Edwardian greeting card. Date: 1906

Edgar & Madge Syers the 1908 Olympics
Husband and wife team who were in the Olympic Games of 1908, winning the bronze medal at the Princes Skating Club, Knightsbridge, London. Madge Syers winning in her own right, first in free skating

Wish You Were Here, musical comedy, London Casino
Jack Hylton presents Wish You Were Here, a new musical comedy at the London Casino. 1954

Music cover, The Douglas Bay Polka by Carl Hirsch
Music cover, The Douglas Bay Polka composed by Carl Hirsch, drawn by Alfred Concanen. circa 1860

Kodak Velox photograph wallet
Kodak Velox photo paper photograph wallet. circa 1940s

Jack the Conqueror. circa 1900

Cartoon, Haymarket Theatre, London
Cartoon, Who will succeed the Bancrofts at the Haymarket? Three theatre managers look up and speculate. 1884

Little Women - Jo and Fritz reunited under an umbrella
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Jo and Fritz (Professor Bhaer) reunited under an umbrella. 1880

Little Women - Christmas entertainments
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Christmas entertainments, in which the friends and family dress up and act out scenes from a romantic melodrama

Sheila Kaye-Smith marrying Rev. Theodore Penrose Fry
Novelist Sheila Kaye-Smith marrying the Rev. Theodore Penrose Fry, curate of Christ Church, St. Leonards, and eldest son of Sir John and Lady Fray, at St. Paul s, St. Leonards in October 1924

A New Knight of the Road by Webster Murray
A motorcyclist with a woman riding pillion rides through the night as the ghost of a mounted highwayman looks on with surprise. Date: 1924

Cinderella, by Minnie Asprey
Cinderella, The Prince, by Minnie Asprey. circa 1918

King Richard II and Princess Isabella of Valois
King Richard II of England and Princess Isabella of Valois, his second wife whom he married in 1396. Date: circa 1396

Hunting for food in the later Ice Age (Last Glacial Period), showing a family of cave dwellers with bow and arrow. At this time there was no English Channel

Comic Postcard Orphan Asylum
A comic postcard shows a couple standing at the desk of a childrens home asking what they need to do to get a baby. Date: Date unknown

Wedding of Prince George, Dke of Kent to Princess Marina
Souvenir postcard commemorating the Wedding of HRH Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902-1942) to HRH Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (1906-1968) at Westminster Abbey, London on 29th November

THE NESTLING
Antje Wenner-Braun

Healing heart
Jennifer Lu

Polar bears at sunset
Max Wang

Startled
Mountain Cloud

Love
Lita Pratikto

Sweet couple
David Manusevich

Illustration from Reigen Magazine, Germany, 1924 of a coy and romantic couple Date: 1924

Roman people dancing a Saltarello, Italy. Date: early 19th century

Roman family of three travelling on horseback, Italy. Date: early 19th century

Illustration, The Camden and Atlantic Railroad, USA
Illustration on a railway summer timetable card, The Camden and Atlantic Railroad from Philadelphia to Atlantic City, USA. Date: 1882

Monumental brass rubbing, William Barton and wife, Thornborough, Buckinghamshire. 1389

Brass rubbing, Richard and Kateryn Amondesham
Monumental brass rubbing, Richard and Kateryn Amondesham, St Marys Church, Ealing, West London. circa 1490

Monumental brass rubbing, John and Elizabeth Hampden, Great Hampden, Buckinghamshire. circa 1525

Advert, Russells, Diamond and Jewellery Merchants
Advert for Russells, Diamond and Jewellery Merchants, Church Street, Liverpool. 1884

Skeleton of Death beating a drum for a newly married couple. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar from The Dance of Death by Hans Holbein, Coxhead, London, 1816

Pair of lovers, circa 1500. He wears a coffee-coloured manteau and crimson pourpoint and pantalon and she wears a white escoffion hat and dress in the colour of isabelle

Elizabethan aristocratic couple getting into a coach. Date: 16th century

Couple in evening dress
Art Deco fashion illustration showing a couple in evening dress, man holding chair for woman. Date: 1929

Music cover, A Winter Ride, by Theo Bonheur
Music cover, A Winter Ride, A Descriptive Fantasia by Theo Bonheur -- piano music. Date: circa 1900s

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