Wave Collection

Waves at the Sea Front

Design for Woven Textile in cream and beige. Colour Pencil on copy paper. Silver Studio. 1936

Cover design, Holiday Haunts, showing a father carrying his little girl on his shoulders at the seaside. 1933

Imperial Airways Poster, Switzerland
Imperial Airways Poster, showing a Scylla passenger plane flying to Switzerland, with a mermaid and merman looking up in wonder. 1935

Silhouette Calendar -- September, Farewell to the swallows. Showing a girl and a boy watching the swallows fly away to warmer climes. 20th century

Hubert Latham flying to Reims for aviation competition
Hubert Latham, French aviation pioneer, flying to Reims for the great international aviation competition of August 1909. Two men wave to him from the ground

Art Deco packaging design
Gorgeous, stylised art deco illustration, designed for chocolate box packaging, with flowers decorating a wave and fan pattern. c.1930

Christmas Wave
A small girl, wrapped up warm against the cold waves a mittened hand as she opens the door to a house emitting a cosy glow. Her sledge is left abandoned on the snowy steps. Date: 1928

Coastal scene - cliffs
Waves crash on a steep rocky coastline with dark high cliffs. Watercolour painting by Malcolm Greensmith. Date: circa 1980

Woman, boat and sail, 1930s
A woman stands and waves in front of the outstretched sail on a boat, on the Norfolk Broads in the 1930s. Date: c.1933

Goodbye, Daddy, by Muriel Dawson -- a toddler in blue with a toy rabbit. circa 1920s

Men pushing car on wet beach
A group of men pushing a car on a wet, sandy beach

Female Barber Shaving
A female barber with a Marcel wave hairstyle holds down her client as she gives him a close shave, with a cut-throat razor! Date: early 1930s

London Opinion 1932
A glamorous blonde woman with a Marcel wave hair style applies lipstick before going to a party in a multi-coloured dress which shows off her legs. Date: November 1932

Tsunami wave and tropical paradise - Evening
Inspired by Hokusai, this graphic picture by Malcolm Greensmith depicts a tropical island cast into sharp silouette by the low light of the evening sun as a menacing high set of waves (a tsunami)

Moods of Mount Fuji - 3
A view across stormy seas to Mount Fuji. A stylised painting by Malcolm Greensmith in the style of the great Japanese printmakers of the late 18th and 19th centuries such as Hiroshige and Hokusai

Canterbury Weavers
Women weavers weaving at their looms in Canterbury, Kent, England. Date: early 1930s

Blue and red abstract art deco design of stylised waves, water and sunset and a bowl of flower petals. c. 1930s

Distant encounter between two cruise ships
A distant encounter between two cruise ships -- people waving from the deck. 20th century

Coastal Clifftop scene with Peregrine Falcon
Waves crash on a steep rocky coastline with dark high cliffs. A perched Peregrine Falcon has been added to the border framing this coastal scene. Watercolour painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Selling a Coat
A young woman with a Marcel wave hairstyle offers her fur collared overcoat for sale to another young woman during hard times - literally taking the coat off her back. Date: 1930s

Donkeys at Weston
Happy children wave as they enjoy a donkey ride on the beach at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, with the sea glistening behind them. Date: 1930s

Typing on the Beach
A young woman types a letter on the beach, with her boss or boyfriend beside her. Date: 1930s

Weaving at a Hand Loom
A young woman weaver weaving rainbow silk at an old English fly loom to be made into summer dresses. Date: early 1930s

Using a Spinning Wheel
A young woman spinning wool on a spinning wheel to be woven into very light summer coats. Date: early 1930s

Mrs a A Milne
DOROTHY MILNE Daphne, wife of A Milne, author of Winnie the Pooh, (nee Dorothy de Selincourt), the mother of Christopher Robin. Date: 1920S

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