Argument Collection

Peary and Cook dispute over the North Pole
Robert Peary and Frederick Cook dispute over who reached the North Pole first -- but the real question is whether either of them got there at all

Essex & Queen Quarrel
The Earl of Essex lays his hand on his sword having been struck by Queen Elizabeth

The Jury Disagree
circa 1910s

Musical Terms Up To Date - Running Down the Scales An altercation between a market barrow boy and a irate smart lady shopper regarding the setting (and accuracy)

Horse-Trams Versus Buses
OLD STYLE VERSUS NEW Brown: Which would you rather ride by? Jones: Oh! the trams of course, no cruelty to the horses, but I am an opposer

Comic postcard, Tall woman and short man Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Couple at an underwear counter - real silk undies Date: 20th century

Cartoon, Louis Engel and Alexander Henderson
Cartoon, Mr Louis Engel (musician and music critic) and Mr Alexander Henderson (theatre owner and director) - I ll have my bond! (A reference to Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.) 1885

Joust between Duke of Norfolk and Duke of Hereford
A joust between Thomas Mowbray, the Duke of Norfolk and Henry Bolingbroke, the Duke of Hereford at Gosford Green in Coventry on 16th September 1398 to settle an argument is disrupted by King Richard

Everything As Usual
A wartime children's short story illustration of an argument between a young man and woman, her aggressive tone causes him to stand uncomfortably. Date: circa 1940s

Cartoon, Bad Business! Irish Home Rule
Political cartoon, Bad Business! A satirical comment on William Ewart Gladstone and Irish Home Rule, with William Harcourt (R) depicted as an elderly woman Date: 1891

America. An artist in the Far West. Been looking for you
Two cowboys in fringed jackets having an argument, one then shoots the other dead. This subject, shoot first, ask questions later, appeared many times in British magazines in the nineteenth century

Clement Attlee and General Jose Miaja give the Socialist Sal
Photograph showing Clement Attlee (left), General Jose Miaja (centre with glasses) and Giner de Los Rios giving the Socialist clenched-fist salute from balcony of a government building in Madrid

Clement Attlee and General Jose Miaja, Madrid, 1937
Photograph showing Clement Attlee (right) and General Jose Miaja in conversation, Madrid, 1937. Clement Attlee, then leader of the Labour Party in Great Britain

Comic postcard, Husband, wife and lodger Date: 20th century

A horse-bus clashes with a horse-cab in 1853. Bussy: "Why don t you move on there
A horse-bus clashes with a horse-cab in 1853. Bussy: " Why don t you move on there?" Cabby: " Why didn t you tell us you were a coming? We wouldn t a bin ere at all!" Date: 1853

Comic postcard, Hotel guests complaint Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Scotsman and taxi driver Date: 20th century

Young English gentleman gambling at Newmarket racetrack
Young English gentleman placing a bet at a betting post at Newmarket racetrack. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from William Combes The Dance of Life

Costume of a German bishop, early 13th century, from Worms Cathedral. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt

The handsome Joconde discovers his wife in bed with the valet. Joconde, from Orlando Furiosa. Lithograph handcoloured in pochoir (stencil)

Cartoon, Amusement Combined with Instruction (Reform)
Cartoon, Amusement Combined with Instruction -- a satirical comment on parliamentary disagreements between Gladstone and Disraeli over the latters Reform Bill. 1867

Cartoon, Lodger Franchise v Dual Voting! (Disraeli)
Cartoon, Lodger Franchise v Dual Voting! A satirical comment on the arguments surrounding the extension of the franchise in Disraelis Reform Bill

Cartoon, If it comes to that, who are you! (And collaborators, too, once!) Edward Solomon (left) and Henry Pottinger Stephens (right) collaborated on many theatrical projects

London Coffee House
Socialising in a London coffee house Date: circa 1700

TOILET / HAIR / WIGS
Large coiffures Date: 1778

USA - Montana Cowboys have a little disagreement over cards. The Actors are playing it straight with Poker faces, although the cowboy on the draw is looking a little bit flush-ed

Husband and Wife in Tense Scene
Date: c.1880

Le Martyre de St. Sebastien. Ballet costumes
Ballet Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien, music by Claude Debussy and argument by Gabrielle d Annunzio. Costumes designed by Leon Bakst

Miseries of London by Rowlandson

Cockney Argument between a fat man and a thin man
Fat Party (after a War of words) - " If you come our court to-morrer and bring a bit o fat with yer, I ll bloomin well eat yer." !! Date: 1895

Town and Gown battle interrupted by police
A stand-off in Oxford between town locals and university students is interrupted by the police who attempt to calm everyone down. 1866

Victorian scrap - Facts in Argument
Victorian scrap - Political Types - Facts in Argument. late 19th century

Man Beaten up by a Suffragette
Man in tattered suit, bandaged and bloodied with an arm and knee in a sling, rues the day he had an argument with a suffragette. Note the perpetrators umbrella stuck in his arm. Date: circa 1913

Judgement of Solomon. Engraving, 16th century

The Frenzy of Orlando by Ludovico Ariosto. First Chant. Engr
Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533). Italian poet. The Frenzy of Orlando. First Chant. Engraving depicting all the characters of the poem, by Girolamo Porro. Printed in Venice, 1583

The Frenzy of Orlando by Ludovico Ariosto
Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533). Italian poet. The Frenzy of Orlando. Argument and allegory of the Third Chant. Venice, 1598

You Are An Imposter Sir - warring Santas
Crowds outside a department store, look on bemused as one Father Christmas rips off the beard of another declaring, You are an imposter, sir! Date: 1951

Thomas Chubb, Theologian
THOMAS CHUBB English theologian of deist views (ie rejecting revealed religion but accepting existence of God via reasoned argument) Date: 1679 - 1747

Doctors Disagree / 18Thc
A gathering of doctors, disagreeing over their diagnoses Date: 18th century

Married life by Gillray
Matrimonial Harmonics by Gillray (Marriage : After) Date: C19

Gentleman and lady in a room, c. 1810
A gentleman and lady in a room, c.1810. The gentleman looks like he is about to leave the room, the lady as though shes just arisen to prevent his exit. Date: C.1810

Men arguing outside a theatre, c. 1800
Two men having an argument or disagreement in the street outside a theatre, c. 1800 Date: C.1800

Speakers Corner
Evangelist at Speakers Corner, Marble Arch, 1987 Date: 1987

Those Frontiers by William Heath Robinson, post WW1
A little disagreement as to the exact line. Two men bicker over a line of territory, have a scrap and then see that while they have been fighting

WWI Poster, The Prime Ministers Advice
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, The Prime MInisters Advice to the Young Unmarried Men and Pledge to Married Men. Date: 1915

WWI Poster, Enlist Today
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, Justify the faith of your fathers, and earn the gratitude of your children. Enlist Today! Date: 1915

A scene from the play Denise by Alexandre Dumas
A dramatic scene from the theatre production, showing a man trying to strangle his victim. Date: 1885

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