Challenged Collection

An Ideal Home No. II. The Folding Garden
This folding garden for flat dwellers with a love of open-air life will appeal to all householders who enjoy rustic amenities in a urban setting. The second of the Ideal Home designs by W

The Sketch Ideal Home No. VI. Sports Without Broad Acres by
The difficult problem of how to enjoy games and field sports when you live in a block of flats has triumphantly solved. The sixth in the series of Ideal Home designs by W. Heath Robinson

An Ideal Home No. I by William Heath Robinson
The first in the series of the Ideal Home designs by W. Heath Robinson. The illustrations from The Sketch depict ingenious space creating ideas for the spatially challenged home

English tourists meeting a clan chieftain on the Isle
English tourist in a tartan kilt meeting a clan chieftain outside a medieval castle on the Isle of Mull, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. Doctor Prosody visits a chieftain of the Isle of Mull

The mutiny on board Columbuss ship. circa 1492

IN DANGER AT JENA
Battle of Jena : Reconnoitring the field, Napoleon is challenged by the Austrian sentinels and is in danger of his life Date: 14 October 1806

Opening session of the First State Duma, Russia
The opening session of the short-lived First State Duma (legislative assembly), which lasted until July but was deadlocked when radicals challenged fundamental laws. Date: April 1906

Georges Carpentier (1894-1975)
Photograph showing Georges Carpentier, the French boxer, pictured c.1912. Carpentier was European Champion in both welterweight and middleweight in 1912

MARSYAS
A Phrygian flute-player who challenged Apollo to a contest of musical skill, lost, and was flayed alive for his presumption

Kavanaghs journey, Relief of Lucknow, Indian Mutiny
Scenes from Thomas Henry Kavanaghs (1821-1882) perilous journey leading to the Relief of Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny, for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross

George McClellan - 3
GEORGE BRINTON MCCLELLAN American military, general-in- chief Union Army but removed for not pressing attack : challenged Lincoln for presidency; governor N.J. Date: 1826 - 1885

American Indians. The Peaceful extinction of the red Indian
In all their war paint, Chiefs of the vanishing Sioux tribe. The Sioux were originally the principle tribe in Dakota. By 1851 they had lost nearly all of their land

George McClellan - 2
GEORGE BRINTON MCCLELLAN American military, general-in- chief Union Army but removed for not pressing attack : challenged Lincoln for presidency; governor N.J. Date: 1826 - 1885

Hardeen challenged!... Hardeen accepts challenge, Friday, Jan. 17, 05. Date 1905

American Indians. The peaceful extincion oif the red indian
In all their war paint, Chiefs of the vanishing Sioux tribe. The Sioux were originally the principle tribe in Dakota. By 1851 they had lost nearly all of their land

American Indians. The peaceful extinctoin of the red indian
In all their war paint, Chiefs of the vanishing Sioux tribe. The Sioux were originally the principle tribe in Dakota. By 1851 they had lost nearly all of their land

Muses and Magpies
The Muses are challenged by the nine daughters of Pieros to a singing contest; but the talentless females are sadly out-sung and are turned into magpies for their presumption

Arthur & Green Knight
The Green Knight, on his green horse, surprises Arthur and Guinevere at a feast. He later challenged the Knights to a fight and Gawain, who volunteered, was victorious

Chamberlain Challenged
Quaintly anticipating events 40 years later, a Chamberlain is challenged by a Churchill - here, Randolph Churchill defies Joseph Chamberlain with busts of Cobden and Bright

Smoker disobeying no smoking sign
An incorrigible smoker is challenged by a railway official in a railway station waiting room

Apollo Flays Marsyas
Lyre-player Apollo is challenged to a musical duel by flute-player Marsyas; when he wins (by a nasty trick) he flays his presumptuous rival alive

Opening session of the First State Duma, Russia
The opening session of the short-lived First State Duma (legislative assembly), which lasted until July but was deadlocked when radicals challenged fundamental laws

Events / War / Napoleonic Wa
Battle of Jena : Reconnoitring the field, Napoleon is challenged by the Austrian sentinels and is in danger of his life

Challenged by Sentry
He praises a guard who challenges him

Priests and Scribes
Jesus is confronted and challenged by the priests and scribes

Events / America / Columbus
Back in Spain, Columbus is challenged about his feat, and responds by standing an egg on end

Military / Scenes / Battles
The combat des treize in which 13 Spanish knights challenged 13 French knights (including Bayard) to a combat at Trani, in Italy

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