Adventures Collection (page 2)

Alice: croquet Match
The Croquet Match: The quarrelsome Queen shouts " Off with his head"... Date: First published: 1865

Alice&flamingo Croquet
Alice uses flamingo as croquet mallet. Date: First published: 1865

Buchan / Mr Standfast
MR STANDFAST The third in the series of Richard Hannays adventures

Carroll / Alice / Trial
The trial of the Knave who (allegedly) stole the jam tarts, before the King of Hearts, acting as judge, and the Queen of Hearts

Hatter Running
The Hatter, tea and bread in hand, runs off without his shoes

Alice / Lobster Dressing
The Lobster at his toilet

Father William / Headstand
FATHER WILLIAM Does a headstand

Alice & Puppy
Alice (shrunk) with the puppy

Bill the Lizard
BILL THE LIZARD Pops out of the chimney

Alice Watches Rabbit
Alice watches the White Rabbit disappear down the hallway

ALICE / DRINK ME
ALICE SHRINKS AND STRETCHES Alice finds the bottle labelled Drink Me

Carroll / Alice Stretches
Alice Stretches at the Neck

La Guerre dans Mars (The War on Mars), by Arnould Galopin. The evil Zapatos attack the benevolent Megacephales. From Aventures Fantastiques d un Jeune Parisien

Captain Newcome saying goodbye to old crew members
Captain Johnny Newcome saying goodbye to old crew members and veterans at Greenwich Hospital. Midshipmen in uniforms, peg-legged veterans with walking sticks

Alice in Wonderland, Mad Hatters Tea Party
Alice in Wonderland, Alice having tea with the Mad Hatter, the Dormouse and the March Hare. Date: early 20th century

Wartime Oxydol Comic Strip Advertisement
A wartime comic strip advertisement showing The Adventures Of Oxydol's Busy Bubbles On The Wartime Washing Front! Date: circa 1940s

Billy Crashes His Bicycle
An illustration for a wartime children's short story book, Adventures! The image shows a boy named Billy, crashing into a motor vehicle and falling off his bicycle. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Short Story, Ocean Liner
An illustration for a wartime children's short story book, Adventures! The image shows a large ocean liner with a smaller vessel in the foreground. Date: circa 1940s

Billy Fixed The Wheel Of His Bicycle
An illustration for a wartime children's short story book, Adventures! The image shows a boy named Billy, fixing the wheel of his bicycle. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - In Pursuit Of Goodman
An illustration for a wartime children's short story book, Adventures! The image shows a military figure with a dog, running down a garden path. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - Adventures!
An illustrated front cover to a children's WW2 short story book, Adventures! The image shows an aerial battle between British and German fighter planes. Date: circa 1940s

An advert for Belling Electric Fires, suggesting that as well as creating warmth, they can also help to generate daydreams. Date: circa 1932

Fantastic Adventures - The living Dead
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, November 1941, featuring the story The living Dead by Edgar Rice Burroughs. A tiger with pincers fights a weird looking red lion while a woman climb up a tree to

Fantastic Adventures - The Lavender vine of death
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, September 1948, featuring the story The Lavender vine of death by Don Wilcox. A huge purple monster devours a modern building

Fantastic Adventures - Dr. Destiny Master of the Dead
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, June 1940, featuring the story Dr. Destiny Master of the Dead by Robert Moore Williams. A weird looking man with a huge head sits on a chair pressing buttons

Fantastic Adventures - Death plays a game
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, December 1941, featuring the story Death plays a game by David V. Reed. A alien is holding a futuristic gun which is directed at a blue suited terrified looking man

Qui Hi's Last March to Padree Burrows's Go Down. An illustration to The Grand Master or Adventures of Qui Hi? in Hindostan. A Hudibrastic Poem in eight cantos by Quiz

Adventures of the Lewis and Clarke Expedition
Captain Meriwether Lewis and William Clarke reaching the Pacific Ocean 46, Indian woman protecting her child from fire under a buffalo hide 47, and Clarke escaping from a river deluge 48

Midshipman Newcome bowing as he leaves dinner in the captains cabin, HMS Victory. Captain Spring, Admiral Hearty and other offiicers drink wine after dinner

Captain Newcome is shaved roughly on the Equator in
Captain Newcome is shaved roughly before being dunked in a tub of bilge water on the Equator. A sailor dressed as Neptune holds a trident and sits on a throne on a gun carriage

Johnny in the West Indies pursued by a black squadron
English Navy officer fleeing from an angry Massa planter and Quashee enslaved men barndishing cudgels in Jamaica. Captain Newcome waves his bicorn at a rowboat in the bay

Fight between officers in the Ward Room, HMS Victory
Lt. Newcome attacking Captain Clackit with a chair while other officers in nightgowns emerge from their cabins, HMS Victory. Clackit had stabbed Newcome with his sword

Midshipman Newcome and Spunyarn drinking Malaga wine
Midshipman Newcome and Masters Mate Spunyarn drinking black strap or Malaga wine at the Navy Tavern, at the summit of Scud Hill, Gibraltar. Widow Cummings brings more wine, a monkey sits on a cannon

Midshipman Newcome meets crew from HMS Victory at Sally Port, Gibraltar. Masters Mate Spunyarn falls in the sea at the dock, a soldier guards the Sally Port

Royal Naval officers riding pigs in saddles through the market in Gibraltar. They knock over market stalls and sellers. Moors, Spanish and Jewish, scattering goods and wares. Market day - Gibraltar

Johnny Newcome drinking grog in the cockpit with other middys (midshipmen), HMS Victory. Sextants, pistols and muskets hang from hooks on the walls, a tub of grog on the floor. The Cockpit

Regency gentleman falling over a gate while two women watch. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by John Augustus Atkinson from Illustrations of the Miseries of Human Life, William Miller, London, 1807

Irish gentleman riding a cow in a rowboat on the canal in Dublin. Brian Boru Esq. proclaim d the winner of the Boat-race for a Cow

Army officers performing the Wetting the Commission ritual
Army officers performing a ritual commission ceremony. An officer wets a document in a bowl of punch with a sword at the Elephant and Castle pub. Wetting an Irish Commission

Scenes from Adventures of Congo, 1823
Enslaved person Congo telling his story to Mr. Cooper 17, and a beggar threatening Congo in livery on the back of a coach in Cork 18

Eulalie-Maria Desbrosses as Germaine in La
Soprano opera singer Eulalie-Maria Desbrosses as La Mere Germaine in La Journee aux Avantures by Etienne Mehul, Theatre Royal de l Opera Comique, 1816. Handcoloured lithograph by F

French dancer Mlle. Clotilde as Calypso in the ballet Les Aventures de Telemaque at the Opera, Paris. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Charles Malos Almanach des Spectacles par K. Y

Foxs adventures with verses inside a Christmas card
Foxs adventures with a crow, geese and a rabbit inside a Christmas card. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

DICKENS / M. CHUZZLEWIT
The Life & Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. Mr Pecksniff - sanctimonious surveyor and architect. Date: First published: 1843-44

WAR REPORTERS MOCKED 1880
The War Correspondent, imperturbable amidst shot and shell - if you believe his own account of his adventures ! Date: 1880

Fairground scene - Christophers First Appearance in public by John Leech from The Struggles and Adventures of Christopher Tadpole by Albert Smith. Date: circa 1848

Storytelling - Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer: Tom and Joe tell their adventures

ALICE / FATHER WILLIAM
FATHER WILLIAM Eats the whole goose Date: First published: 1865

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