These are the illustrations by John Byam Shaw for 'Old King Cole's Book of Nursery Rhymes', a book first published in 1901. The illustrations are accompanied by the corresponding verses, as well as the front cover of the book, making 25 colour pictures and 24 verses in the download.
This download features 49 hi-res images in JPEG format, scanned by us from an original edition of the book. They are all 600dpi and range in size from 3753 pixels wide to 6330 pixels tall.
Rhymes include Old King Cole, This Little Pig Went to Market, Little Polly Flinders, Little Bo-Peep, Goosey Goosey Gander, Rock-a-Bye Baby, Peter Piper, Three Wise Men of Gotham, Little Miss Muffet, Simple Simon, I Saw Three Ships, Three Blind Mice, and more.
The pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you’d like, including commercial use.
The pictures in our collections are out of copyright in the United States, the UK, Canada, most of Europe, Australia and all countries that follow the lifetime plus 70 years rule. Read our blog post about public domain copyright rules for more information.
