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Dismayed Collection

Background imageDismayed Collection: Cartoon, Strike Home! (strikers injure each other)

Cartoon, Strike Home! (strikers injure each other)
Cartoon, Strike Home! A working man who is on strike is dismayed to find that the local baker is also on strike -- the suggestion is that all they are doing is injuring each other by striking

Background imageDismayed Collection: Cartoon, narrow theatre seats

Cartoon, narrow theatre seats
Cartoon -- a rather large lady and gentleman are dismayed to find that the theatre seating appears on the narrow side. Date: circa 1855

Background imageDismayed Collection: Lady Changes Wheel

Lady Changes Wheel
A lady driver changes a wheel, dismayed at what it may do to her dress and hoping some chivalrous gent may come along... Date: 1930

Background imageDismayed Collection: ROMAN CATTLE STRICKEN

ROMAN CATTLE STRICKEN
Roman farmers dismayed when their cattle are stricken with the plague Date: 29 BC

Background imageDismayed Collection: MISTRESS AND SERVANTS

MISTRESS AND SERVANTS
The mistress of the house is dismayed by the aggravations, tribulations, vexations and irritations caused by her servants... Date: 1849

Background imageDismayed Collection: Siren Dismayed

Siren Dismayed
A siren lures a man with her song - but when she sees him close to, shes not sure it was such a good idea Date: 1921

Background imageDismayed Collection: Cartoon, On leave in Paris, WW1

Cartoon, On leave in Paris, WW1
Cartoon, On leave in Paris. Two French soldiers outside a cinema are dismayed to see that all the films are about the war -- to think we came here to have fun! Date: 1917

Background imageDismayed Collection: Isaac Le Chapelier

Isaac Le Chapelier
ISaC RENE GUY LE CHAPELIER French revolutionary statesman, dismayed by the terror, visited England whereupon he was arrested, and guillotined as a traitor. Date: 1754 - 1794

Background imageDismayed Collection: The Novice: Anyhow, now I know which is reverse 1927

The Novice: Anyhow, now I know which is reverse 1927
Young lady reverses her car into the back of a shop window. Date: 1927

Background imageDismayed Collection: Coloured Cousins 2

Coloured Cousins 2
At first dismayed when his coloured cousins turn up from the West Indies, Gladstone soon finds work for them

Background imageDismayed Collection: Ration Gadgets for your Coupons - Sunday Joint

Ration Gadgets for your Coupons - Sunday Joint
Part of a series of humorous illustrations he produced for the Sketch during World War II. The scene shows a family sitting at a dinner table for Sunday lunch only to be faced with a circular machine

Background imageDismayed Collection: Reluctant Bather

Reluctant Bather
A girl hesitates on the steps of her bathing machine, dismayed by the appearance of the sea, alarmingly different from the familiarity of the swimming baths !

Background imageDismayed Collection: Royal Evasion - 1

Royal Evasion - 1
Louis and Marie Antoinette escape from the Tuileries in disguise, hoping to cross the frontier of France altogether. The authorities are alarmed and the populace dismayed

Background imageDismayed Collection: French Arms Build-Up

French Arms Build-Up
Even Saint Barbara, though the patron saint of gunners, is dismayed by Frances build-up of arms, as compared with her peaceloving neighbour Germany

Background imageDismayed Collection: Meyerbeer / Robert Liebig6

Meyerbeer / Robert Liebig6
Act 5 Finale : the diabolical Bertram is dismayed at the sight of Robert and Isabella, now united in love and also in higher spiritual values

Background imageDismayed Collection: Halleys Comet 1066

Halleys Comet 1066
At the coronation of Harold, astrologers are dismayed by the appearance of Halleys Comet, which they interpret as an evil omen


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