Deception Collection (page 2)

The Biscayan feigned (El Vizcaino fingido). Short farce by C
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616). Spanish writer. Short farce The Biscayan feigned (El Vizcaino fingido). Colored engraving. 1868. Private collection

El Vizcaino fingido. Short farce by Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616). Spanish writer. Short farce The Biscayan feigned (El Vizcaino fingido). Engraving. 1868. Private collection

Cartoon, Peace, WW1
Cartoon, Peace. An allegorical female figure, Peace, holding the flags of the Allied nations, looks down at Kaiser Wilhelm kneeling in front of her and rejects his deceptive offer. Date: 1917

Cartoon, Ententes Reply, WW1
Cartoon, Ententes Reply. An allegorical female figure, representing Entente (Agreement), responds to the German peace suggestion by sitting on it/him. Date: 1917

Cartoon, The trap, WW1
Cartoon, The trap. Kaiser Wilhelm and Crown Prince Wilhelm find that their trap labelled Peace has not caught any enemy soldiers, even though it was well prepared. Date: 1917

Caricature of The Two Willings, senior and junior. James Willing was actually a pseudonym for John Thomas Douglass (1842-1917), manager of the Standard Theatre, Shoreditch, London

Caricature of Mrs Fletcher and Mrs Hart-Davies
Caricature of Susan Willis Fletcher, spiritualist, and Mrs Juliette Hart-Davies, her victim. Fletcher was convicted of obtaining jewellery by deception from Mrs Hart-Davies. 1881

Paranormal: William S. Marriott exposes seance hand control
The British magician William S. Marriott shows how hand control can be evaded during a s顮 ce. Date: 1910

Robot arrested at a theatre in Pavia, Italy
A robot is arrested at a theatre in Pavia, Italy, on suspicion of being a fake ! Date: 1935

Nicholas Hart, the Great Sleeper
Nicholas Hart, known as the Great Sleeper, who slept from 5 to 11 August 1711, though he was suspected of shamming with a view to earning money. Date: 1711

Cartoon, The useless trap, WW1
Cartoon, The useless trap. Kaiser Wilhelm asks Chancellor Bethmann if he thinks the enemy will recognise his dove, which is really a two-headed eagle with white feathers. Date: 1917

Cartoon, Bank Notes, Paper Money, French Alarmists, o the Devil, the Devil! ah! poor John Bull!!! by James Gillray. Showing the Prime Minister, William Pitt

Illustration, The Valiant Tailor -- Pulling the piece of soft cheese out of his pocket, he squeezed it till the moisture ran out. Date: 1909

Illustration that recreates the hunting of large mammals (mammoths, woolly rhinos and elephants) using traps during the Upper Paleolithic. Painting

Toadheaded Agamid Lizard - uses its camouflage colouring to hide - presses itself into the sand (Phrynocephalus mistaceus). sand dunes of Karakum desert - Turkmenistan - Spring - April

Macmillan speaking inn the House, Profumo Scandal
" We have not been parties to deception." Artists impression by Juliet Pannett, special artist for the ILN, showing Prime Minister Harold Macmillan

French views of German ambitions, WW1
A fold-out item expressing French views of German ambitions during the First World War. At the centre, the French cockerel crows, proclaiming the dawn of liberty

Fake rodent skeleton
Sent to the Museum by amateur palaeontologist Reverend C Green in 1843. The skeleton had not been dug out of the ground whole and bones belonged to different individuals

A false Paris outside Paris: A city created to be bombed, 1920
A page from the Illustrated London News, 1920, illustrating a sham Paris, created to trick German pilots flying at night into thinking they were bombing Paris during World War One

Nathaniel St Andre, Rabbit Docto
Undated upper body engraving of Nathaniel St Andre, " Rabbit Doctor". Attended to the phenomenon of Mary Tofts the Pretend Rabbit Breeder and was taken in by her deception

Cortes & Montezuma
The first meeting between Cortez and Montezuma

Old Age / Mask of Youth
An old man puts on the mask of youth at his dressing table

Tarot Card Bateleur 1500
TAROT Le Bateleur (The Juggler)

Duck shooting with decoys, hoping they will encourage other ducks to alight on the water and be slaughtered

Montezuma in Chains
Cortes seizes Montezuma and puts him in chains

Performing Horse C. 1700
The Finest Taught Horse in the World. The horse bedecked in floral garlands assists in a card trick. No doubt he just responds to small signals from his master

Red Riding Hood & Woof
Little Red Riding Hood meets the wolf in the woods

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