children s book illustrations

The animals sick of the plague.

I reaped it my way, for I cut nothing off but the ears, and carried it...

Sunbonnet twins baking. - Drawing. Public domain image.

A painting of two children cooking in a kitchen. A painting of two women baking in a kitchen. Public domain postcard scan.

Hey! up the chimney, lass! Hey after you!

Contes bleus de ma mère-grand.

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Jack and Jill. Nursery rhymes for children.

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This little pig went to market.

Was not that [a dainty dish]. Nursery rhymes for children.

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Tom, Tom, the piper's son. Nursery rhymes for children.

This little pig cried all the way home.

Old King Cole. - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Diamond Dyes nursery rhymes pictorial.

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Solomon commands the spirits of the world to submit to his will.

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Looking very undancey indeed. - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Ran merrily after. - A drawing of a group of people walking down a str...

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Der arme Hase. Da lag er nun auf dem Acker und war mausetot.

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[The frog speaks to the King's daughter]

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Rapunzel. - A drawing of a man laying on the ground next to a woman

Die Nelke. - A black and white drawing of people in a room

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Little Mr. Thimblefinger.

["Tom reached and clawed down the hole after him"]

The Knight comes upon Undine - Drawing. Public domain image.

I beg your pardon, Mr. Serpent, would you be so kind..."

Simpkin in the snow. - A drawing of a cat walking through a doorway

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Gustave Dore - Sleeping Beauty.

Heidi drinking from her bowl. - Public domain portrait print

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Two goats with pink bows. - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Heidi reading. - Public domain portrait painting

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Pig picking apples. - A drawing of a pig hanging from a tree

A pig is stuck in a tree. The pig in the apple tree. Public domain postcard scan.

Pig sits by the fire on the wolf rug.

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Mamma's story. - Public domain dedication image

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Stealing. - A drawing of a boy and a bird in a nest

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Triumphal march of the Elf-King.

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In the jungle. - A painting of people in a forest with animals

Animals as humans. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Boarding the chaise in Cheapside

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Three women and a boy. - A drawing of a woman holding a basket of flow...

[The squire and the milkmaid talking.]

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Valentine & Orson. - Egypt

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The captain was a duck, with a jacket on his back.

With a leaf from an old English book--a jonquil will serve for a pen.

The fairies of the Caldon-Low.

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Mary, Mary, quite contrary.

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Polly put the kettle on. - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Robinson Crusoe landing his raft.

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This is Discontent, who would fain have Christian go back with him onc...

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They'd such very odd heads and such very odd tails.

Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle.

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The Queen of hearts. Nursery rhymes for children.

Diamond Dyes nursery rhymes pictorial.

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N-O P Q-R - Art nouveau public domain image

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He at last fell into a slumber.

Then stood forth Envy. - A black and white drawing of a man holding a ...

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Cinderella with her bird friends

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Cinderella. - A black and white drawing of a woman sitting on a bed

Cinderella. - Public domain portrait engraving

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[L'Huitre et les plaideurs] Fable

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["The mouse besought him to spare one who had so unconsciously offende...

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"'I scarcely closed my eyes the whole night through.'"

The story in verse of the children in the wood.

[The frog king] - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Hansel and Gretel - A drawing of a woman and a child in front of a hut

Mr. Rabbit fell kerthump.

He to' down a whole panel er fence gittin' 'way fum dar"

[Die Geschichte vom Zappel-Philipp]

Sick Reinhold and his mother

John Brimblecombe. - A painting of a man and a woman standing next to ...

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The daughter of the forest.

Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf

A painting of a girl and a wolf in a forest. A painting of a little red riding hood and a wolf in a forest. Public domain postcard scan.

[The wolf comes to the grandmother's cottage]

Red Riding Hood. - An illustration of a woman helping a child with a b...

Little Red Riding Hood at her grandmother's cottage

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"'Oh, Granny, your teeth are tremendous in size!' / 'They're to eat yo...

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Ah, love! could thou and I with faith conspire

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This Vision comes of Pie--not Piety.

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illustration for The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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The doctors' consultation.

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Little Black Rabbit. - Public domain scan / drawing

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The first thing he saw was Mr. McGregor hoeing onions.

Puss in boots. - Drawing. Public domain image.

A boy playing. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Dressing the Baby-Elves. - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Animals locked in the stocks.

End-paper design - Drawing. Public domain image.

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So linked & locked in strife they lay"

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A story by the fire. - An old book with a picture of a woman talking t...

The wedding bells. - A picture of a bunch of flowers in a vase

And the dish ran away with the spoon.

Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor dog a bone.

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The needy seldom pass'd her door, ...

Doctor Foster went to Gloster ; A diller, a dollar, a ten o'clock scho...

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[A cat came fiddling out of a barn ; Jack be nimble ; Bandy legs.]

She did not mind death, but she could not stand pinching.

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If Orpheus first produced the waltz.

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[The cow that tossed the dog ; burying the dead dog]

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One, two, buckle my shoe. Nursery rhymes for children.

She sent him to market--a live goose he bought.

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There was a crooked man. Nursery rhymes for children.

[The enchantress in the mausoleum with her afflicted lover]

For years he had been quietly filling his stocking.

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