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  • Children playing with various toys, in the background are paintings of the Creation and the creation of Adam. Engraving by A. Bosse, 1636.
  • Half-clothed Tilottama flying in the sky playing with a red ball. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • A white telephone on a pink background advertising AIDS counselling services offered by health authorities and voluntary organizations; with the message ''You do not get AIDS from playing". Colour lithograph by Papen, Hansen, ca. 1995.
  • A female servant holds a small child while its fashionably dressed mother touches its face on her way out. Wood engraving by J. Thompson, 1840, after D. Wilkie.
  • A couple looking lovingly and playing with their baby in a happy domestic environment. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1787.
  • Two young children hide as two adults come into the room where the children have been playing with their precious antiques. Engraving by T.A. Dean after J. Jenkins.
  • A couple looking lovingly and playing with their baby in a happy domestic environment. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1787.
  • A convalescent soldier from Waterloo sitting with his wife and children. Engraving by G.T. Doo, 1847, after W. Mulready.
  • Sunlight Soap makes washing play / Lever Brothers Limited.
  • A young child sitting at a table using dominoes as building blocks. Engraving by A.& E. Varin after A. Anker.
  • A group of children playing at being doctors and pharmacists, mother and grandmother approach through a door. Photogravure after F. Hardy.
  • Two young children hide as two adults come into the room where the children have been playing with their precious antiques. Engraving by T.A. Dean after J. Jenkins.
  • Medusa presiding over groups of satyrs who are gambling; representing gambling or gaming as a passion. Etching by J. Audran after C. Gillot.
  • Children playing with various toys, in the background are paintings of the Creation and the creation of Adam. Engraving by A. Bosse, 1636.
  • The gopis complaining to Yasoda about Krishna's pranks. Chromolithograph.
  • Children at play in the East London Hospital for Children. Wood engraving by J. Swain after G.W. Ridley, 1872.
  • The three ages of man: a couple embrace, children play with hoops and toys, and an old couple eat at a table. Engraving by P. Fürst, 1652.
  • A woman playing outside with her child, her husband in the background, watching them. Etching by D. Deuchar, 1784, after A. Ostade, 1679.
  • One boy is holding his mouth open as another aims to throw a cherry for him to catch, two girls look on in amusement. Engraving by H. Bourne after W. Mulready.
  • Sunlight Soap makes washing play / Lever Brothers Limited.
  • Children playing a game with one of them being pulled along on a baby-walker with ribbons. Etching by N. Larmessin, 1735, after N. Lancret.
  • Krishna as an infant on Yasoda's lap playing with a cow and a calf. Chromolithograph by R. Varma, 1896.
  • B.T. Babbitt's 1776 trade mark / B.T. Babbitt.
  • Children playing at being doctors and pharmacists, mother and grandmother approach through a door. Mezzotint by W.J. Edwards after F.D. Hardy.
  • B.T. Babbitt's 1776 trade mark / B.T. Babbitt.
  • Children sit round a table reading a newspaper while another child tries to prevent a woman from entering the room. Process print after Alexander H. Burr.
  • A group of children playing at being doctors and pharmacists, mother and grandmother approach through a door. Photogravure after F.D. Hardy.
  • A girl giving a piggy-back to a younger girl. Photogravure after Arthur J. Elsley, 1907.
  • Boer War: two wounded men, one Boer and one British, playing at cards in a hospital ward as a nurse looks on. Pen and ink drawing by G. B.
  • A nurse checking on a playful child. Watercolour drawing by J.E. Sutcliffe, 1904.