Chained Collection (#2)

Typewriter, Ball & Chain
A typewriter with a ball and chain attached to it - a life sentence of office work! 1960s

Initiation of the Knight of the East or the Sword
The elected is paraded in a curiously decorated room before the President, chained and dressed as Zorobabel. Date: 1890s

British Ballad, The Children (Babes) In The Woods
THE CHILDREN IN THE WOODS (BABES IN THE WOODS) First published as a ballad by Thomas Millington in Norwich in 1595, telling the traditional childrens tale of two children in the care of their uncle

Origin Species, CH Bennett, Crook - bear
The origin of Garotte. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of a crook, from a bear. A crook stands waiting to ask the time from prospective victims, bludgeon at hand

Colourful but shabby gipsy caravan
A colourful but shabby gipsy caravan, with a guard dog chained to it. In the background some washing is drying on a hedge

Elephant shifting large pieces of timber
An elephant removing a large piece of timber from a large stack, India

The suffrage debate: two extreme portraits
The anti-suffragette as seen by the suffragette, and the suffragette as seen by the anti-suffragette: a coy and slightly demonic looking young woman in evening wear simpers at the viewer

Rhinoceros found in Rundheer Singhs Camp, Bengal, 1852
Engraved showing a chained Rhinoceros, found by British forces when they captured the camp of Rundheer Singh, a famous robber chief of Bengal, India, 1852

Switzerland Chillon
The chateau de Chillon on lake Geneva was from 1530 to 1536 the prison of Bonivard, who was chained to a pillar and inspired a poem by Byron

Gipsy Girl & Puppy
A scruffy but pretty little blonde gipsy girl with her hair in plaits, happy to be playing amongst the chained-up dogs and a puppy. Charlwood gipsy camp, Surrey, England

Houdini Chained to L dr
Harry Houdini chained by the neck, hands and feet to a ladder which would later be submerged in water

Bear Baiting C 18
The bear is chained to the wall, so that he cannot move more than a short distance while the dogs attack him. The all-male audience enjoy this delightful entertainment

A Husky Sledge Dog
A husky sledge dog on a trans- Antarctic expedition

Convicts at Mass
Chained convicts attending mass in a French prison

Medical / Insanity / Patient
The American patient James Norris in chains at Bethlehem Hospital, London

St Paul tells Festus he is not insane
St Paul rejects the charge of insanity made against him by the Roman official Festus, as described in the Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 26

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