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Comments Collection (page 2)

Background imageComments Collection: Satirical cartoon, An Aerial Excursion

Satirical cartoon, An Aerial Excursion, showing a thin Englishman and a plump Frenchwoman in a balloon, while the crowd on the ground makes rude comments in speech bubbles. 1802

Background imageComments Collection: Titanic - Report and Timeline in the Sphere

Titanic - Report and Timeline in the Sphere
Page from the Sphere with comments, reports and anecdotes relating to the sinking of the Titanic together with a timeline listing the events that eventually led the ship to sink

Background imageComments Collection: Peabody Statue

Peabody Statue
GEORGE PEABODY Statue of the American philanthropist whose benefactions created homes for the homeless outcasts of London. Date: 1870

Background imageComments Collection: Our Costly Arms

Our Costly Arms
A recruiting sergeant is shocked to discover that a volunteer for the Army turns out to have a wife and eleven children and comments that he will cost as much as the Colonel in army pay

Background imageComments Collection: Commune Cartoon

Commune Cartoon
Punch comments on the Commune

Background imageComments Collection: Revolution Cartoon

Revolution Cartoon
Punch comments on the creation of Frances Third Republic

Background imageComments Collection: Satire on Religious Art

Satire on Religious Art
A satire on the literal nature of religious art, with St Anthony preaching to the fishes lampooned

Background imageComments Collection: The Marriage Auction

The Marriage Auction
THE MARRIAGE AUCTION Aristocratic families sell off their eligible daughters to the highest bidder

Background imageComments Collection: Nihilist Printing Press

Nihilist Printing Press
St Petersburg police discover a nihilist printing press on which disrespectful comments are printed about the tsar, the police and other authorities

Background imageComments Collection: Oscar Wilde Moonshine

Oscar Wilde Moonshine
OSCAR WILDE - some satirical comments

Background imageComments Collection: China / 100Bc / Wu-Ti & Book

China / 100Bc / Wu-Ti & Book
Emperor Wu-Ti comments to an assembly on books about Buddhism

Background imageComments Collection: Grandville / Marriage Mart

Grandville / Marriage Mart
the Marriage Market

Background imageComments Collection: Monkeys and Sightseers

Monkeys and Sightseers
A forlorn group of monkeys gaze out of their cage, as a large gathering of women stare fixedly at them - one of Dores most striking comments on London society

Background imageComments Collection: FUENTES D ONORO 1811

FUENTES D ONORO 1811
Battle of Fuentes d Onoro : Wellington manages to defeat Massena but comments If Boney had been there we would have been damnably licked

Background imageComments Collection: Looking at Modern Art

Looking at Modern Art
Although the caption is in Norwegian, most of us can make a guess at what the gallery visitor is saying

Background imageComments Collection: Model Comes to Life 1919

Model Comes to Life 1919
The modern artist whose Venus came to life

Background imageComments Collection: School Report / Front

School Report / Front
A school report card for Ecole de Pont-Levoy for the academic year 1847 -8. Comments are passed on this pupils character

Background imageComments Collection: Sectarian Symptoms

Sectarian Symptoms
Satirical comments on four religious sects - Jumpers, Quakers, Shakers and Millenarians



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