Romance Gallery

Comic postcard, Couple in the blackout, WW2

Comic postcard, Couple in the blackout, WW2. Aren't you afraid to sit here and hold my hand in the blackout? - No - I should be afraid to leave go of it!! Date: 1940s

© The Donald McGill Archive Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library

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A Hurried Courtship by John Hassall

A Hurried Courtship - Perfect Strangers Meet He: Ain't that a swagger marriage? She: Don't I wish it were moine! He: Don't I wish it were moine! She: Don't I jes wish it were both ours. Two people watching a wedding get swept up in the romance of it all. An early, possibly the earliest, example of a published humorous drawing by the artist John Hassall (1868-1948), in The Sketch, 17 January 1894. Hassall had just completed three years of art training and although he would exhibit two oil paintings at the Royal Academy in 1894, he began to contribute pictures to illustrate magazines in order to secure a regular income. The Sketch was the first magazine to publish his work. Two years later, Hassall would begin designing posters, and was so successful would eventually be hailed as The Poster King'. He continued to contribute drawings and front cover designs to a wide range of news stand titles. Date: 1894

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

English gentleman riding a horse on his way to a picnic

English gentleman with whiskers in tam o'shanter cap riding a horse on his way to a picnic in the country. A carriage with ladies behind him, and a peasant in smock in the foreground. Mr. John Bunting on his way to the Pic-nic. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by John Leech from Robert Smith Surtees Plain or Ringlets?, Bradbury and Evans London, 1860. Leech (1817-1864) was an English caricaturist and illustrator best known for his work for Punch magazine

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