Chained Collection

Siberian death defier and Aviator baffling John Clempert
Undated coloured poster for Siberian death defier and Aviator baffling John Clempert featuring illustrations of his tricks and performances. HPF/5B/18

Hereford Chained Library
Chained books in the library of Hereford Cathedral

Melancholy and raving madness, Bedlam Hospital
The figures of melancholy and raving madness over the gateway into Bethlehem(Bedlam)Hospital. Statues by the Danish sculptor Caius Gabriel Cibber Date: 1813

Dancing Bears - Constantinople, Turkey
Two attendants/musicians with their dancing bears, performing on their hind legs in Constantinople, Turkey

Evolution / Art Apes Life
An extremely talented aspiring monkey artist sketches a less fortunate fellow monkey who is chained up whilst being sketched

Suffragette Imps become Suffragists. Cartoon Imps who featured in Ideas Penny Illustrated Weekly are seen behaving as wild suffragettes

Chained to Rail / Iln / 1908
A suffragette chained to grille in the House of Commons

Punishment of female debtors in Abyssinia (Ethiopia), East Africa - tied up with a chain until they pay their debts! Date: circa 1930s

Police removing suffragettes chained to railings 1908
Police officers removing Edith New and Olivia Smith from the railings of 10. Downing Street. The image is interestingly captioned

Chained To A Bed
A photograph used for advertisement purposes, portraying a distressed man wearing pyjamas, struggling as he is chained to his bed. Date: circa 1939

Performers and trained bears, 14th century
Juggler and trained bear, and performer with tabor drum and chained bear, 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England

A pet cheetah in Paris, 1909
A pet cheetah affectionately licking the head of its young owner. The Sketch magazine reports that cheetahs are supposed to make excellent pets and are very fond of children. Date: 1909

William Spears Simpson, English inventor of the cycle lever chain, similar to the one cyclist use today, formed by linked triangles with two levels

Breguet Br. 1050 Alize 65
Aeronavale - Breguet Br.1050 Alize 65, securely chained down, whilst parked on board Foch or Clemenceau, during an operational cruise

Dassault-Breguet Super etendard 59
Aeronavale - Dassault-Breguet Super etendard 59, securely chained down, whilst parked on board Foch or Clemenceau, during an operational cruise

Yachting Terms Illustrated - A Dog Watch
circa 1906

Dick Turpins Ring (Cockpit), Hempstead, Essex
circa 1910s

Chinese court, early 19th century
Awaiting the verdict in a Chinese Court. Date: Early 19th century

MONKEY ARTIST
An extremely talented aspiring monkey artist sketches a less fortunate fellow monkey who is chained up whilst being sketched. Date: 19th century

Evolution - Art Apes Life
An extremely talented aspiring monkey artist sketches a less fortunate fellow monkey who is chained up whilst being sketched

CERBERUS CHAINED
Cerberus, chained by Hercules, infects the Earth with his foam

Suffragette woman in the stocks, unsympathetic cartoon
Unsympathetic comment on Votes or Women Date: 1913

Blue door with chain, Nefta, Tunisia
Ornate studded blue door with chain, Nefta, Tunisia Date: 1987

Suffragette Chained to Railings Petition. Suffragette chained to railings outside home of Mr Asquith, carries a Votes for Women petition

Zanzibar, Tanzania - Convicts
Zanzibar, Tanzania - Shackled convicts Date: circa 1910s

Jakarta, Indonesia - A public Flogging. The unlucky recipent of this punishment (a chained prisoner) has been tied to a tall frame

Pet Lion at Company in Aden, Yemen
Pet Lion at Messrs Cowasjee Dinshaw & Bros. Company at Aden, Yemen. " Mr Lion with some members of the staff of the firm"

Madman in Mad House
A mental patient, confined in a strait-jacket, is chained barefoot in a small bare cell - a warder opens the door for a visitor to see the wretch, perhaps a one-time friend

Elizabeth Pope in the Character of Zara in The Mourning Bride by Congreve. 1791

The Coat of Arms of Belfast, Northern Ireland Date: circa 1900

The Fete Champetre, 1627, by Dirck Hals (1591-1656)
Dirck Hals (1591-1656). Dutch painter. The Fete Champetre, 1627. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

Jesus goes to Gethsemane and finds a man possessed by the devil. Codex of Predis (1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy

Raphael (1483-1520). Italian painter and architect. Liberati
Raphael (1483-1520). Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. Liberation of Saint Peter, 1514. Fresco. Raphaels Rooms. Room of Heliodorus. Apostolic Palace. Vatican City

Lukasinski in Chains
The revolutionary patriot is chained to one of archduke Constantines cannons and taken away when the latter is permitted to leave Warsaw. Date: 1830

The New Mortar for Bridging Chasms, Heath Robinson WW1
America in the Field - The new mortar for bridging chasms. A line of American soldiers traverse a chasm chained on wheeled chairs to a shell sent flying into the air

Helen Fox, suffragette
Suffragette Helen Fox poses with chains, following her House of Commons protest with Muriel Matters on 28th October, 1908, when they chained themselves to the grille of the Ladies Gallery

Street scene with oxen, Germany
Street scene with oxen near Cochem, Germany. Date: 20th century

Pug Peter -- chained dog in prison cell
Pug Peter -- Catching the Mice with Cheese. A chained dog in a prison cell, with a crowd of mice at the open door converging on a piece of cheese. Date: 1905

Houdini Preparing for Bridge Jump
The prolific Austrian-Hungarian escape artist Harry Houdini preparing for one of his many daring feats of escapology, this time a highly publicised Bridge Jump whilst in metal chains. Date: circa 1910

LUCAS VELAZQUEZ, Eugenio (1817-1870). Chained woman. Romanticism. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. Madrid. Prado Museum

Fox chained to automobile. Moorehead, Minnesota. Date 1940 Oct

Muriel Matters
The suffragist, Muriel Matters. She was a speaker & organiser for the WFL and most notably chained herself to " that ville grill" behind which women sat in the Commons Date: 1908

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

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