Disturbed Collection

Cartoon, Mermaids and U-Boats, WW1
Cartoon, Mermaids and U-Boats. Two mermaids and two fish are disturbed by a German U-boat which has a face like a shark. Date: 1917

Ghost in a Brothel
Annie Joness brothel at Louisville, Kentucky, is disturbed by ghosts (say the girls) or by drunken rowdies (say the cops)

Le Devoir de Tuer by Rene Berton (born in 1872 and died in 1934). Rene Berton was a French physician, known for his plays. Le Devoir de Tuer translated is The Duty to KIll

Lear / Nonsense / Dundee
There was an Old Man of Dundee, who frequented the top of a tree; When disturbed by the crows, he abruptly arose, and exclaimed, I ll return to Dundee

Lady Macbeth sleepwalking in Shakespeares tragedy Macbeth, Act V, Scene 1

Cat punting postcard by Louis Wain
Wain had a disturbed life and eventually died in a mental hospital in 1939. His cats became more agitated images as he grew older. Date: 1903

Mallards Disturbed British Birds Watercolour
Mallards, Disturbed, British, Birds, Watercolour, painting, Roland, Green, 12022903

Comic postcard, Man disturbed by late night party in hotel Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man in bed disturbed by party Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man behind bars. In the Asylum - mashing barmaids. Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man behind bars. In the Asylum - picture postcard collecting. Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man behind bars. In the Asylum - betting systems. Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man behind bars. In the Asylum - Triplets. Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man behind bars. In the Asylum - Politics. Date: 20th century

Two lovers in a parlour disturbed by prying maids moving glasses in a cupboard. Miseries Domestic. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Fashionable couple disturbed by stupid, stone-cold
Fashionable couple disturbed at home in the morning by stupid, stone-cold idle relatives. Miseries of the country. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Calligraphic title page with vignette of the Skeleton of Death tipping over a misers chair as two relatives grab bags of money from his strong box

Les Nymphes de Trianon at Versailles, France
Les Nymphes de Trianon (The Trianon Nymphs) -- alarmed at the arrival of the diplomats for the Versailles Treaty talks. 1919

Christmas card, children on a sleigh in the snow
Victorian Christmas card, children on a sleigh in the snow, with turkeys running away in the foreground. 19th century

Cartoon, The Censors Dream after a course of pantomimes. 1870

Ursula Mordant in A School of Life
Ursula Mordant in a Lunatic Asylum - illustration to A School of Life by Anna Mary Howitt, author and artist. circa 1855

Comic design, Disturbed by the Night Mare. 1831

1741 / ENRAGED MUSICIAN
A violinist is disturbed by a ballad singer, a screeching parrot, a piper, a drummer, a barking dog, a knife grinder, fighting cats and other noises Date: 1741

THE FAMILYS RETURN
THE UNEXPECTED RETURN Servants giving a party are disturbed when Master and Mistress come home sooner than expected (scene from a play, Les Cuisinieres)(the cooks) Date: 1823

LEAK DISTURBS FAMILY
Family disturbed by water leaking from upstairs Date: C.1860

Padded cell, Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire
A padded cell at Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire, used to hold mentally disturbed or violent prisoners. Some kind of calendar is scratched on the door. The inmate sits, head in hands

Secret Toad-Headed Agama - dispays its collar when being disturbed - sand dunes - desert (Phrynocephalus mystaceus Pallas). Caspian sea shore - Turkmenistan. April

Secret Toad-Headed Agama - dispays being disturbed - sand dunes - desert (Phrynocephalus mystaceus Pallas). Caspian sea shore - Turkmenistan. Spring - April

DEUCE
Humorous Illustration showing Bonzo being disturbed by a flying tennis ball. George Ernest Studdy (1878-1948), was the creator of Bonzo

Warship trailing a Fog Buoy, 1912
Photograph of a British warship trailing a fog buoy. When a group of warships travelling line ahead entered fog they would stream fog buoys

Bothered by Relations
A lady is disturbed by the page boy announcing the arrival of her less well-off relations. Her advice: never be at home to them or your social standing may suffer. Date: circa 1850

Cartoon, The Martians, WW1
Cartoon, The Martians. During the First World War, the residents of Mars complain to their neighbouring planet about the noise, and ask them to be more considerate. Date: 1918

Mongrel puppy howling wakes up his master, who comes to investigate. Date: 1914

Cartoon, They get what they deserve, WW1
Cartoon, They get what they deserve, showing a group of pessimists, as if in a lunatic asylum, with a sign warning others against approaching or speaking to them. Date: 1915

A lizard - disturbed on its feeding territory (Phrynocephalus versicolor Kulagi). South Tuva, Russia

WW1 cartoon - The Super-Patriot - knitting
A biddable gentleman is disturbed from his armchair nap and used by two ladies of the house to wind wool. Knitting comforts for troops was a nationwide activity during the First World War

Austrians in Antwerp
Ferdinand of Austria makes a triumphal entry into Antwerp, but he needs a sizeable contingent of troops to make sure his arrival is not disturbed by ill-wishers. Date: 1635

Japan - Woman her two children disturb a stork
Japan - A Woman with her two children disturb a stork from the rushes beside a river or pool. Date: 1905

Light Unshaded! Blackout rebels bribe official
An Upper Class Party is disturbed by an official complaining about the non-blackout of this London address during WWI. The host is furiously apologising

Voltaire + Friedrich Gt
Voltaire, seated at his worktable at Sans Souci, is disturbed in his writing by Friedrich der Grosse Date: 1694 - 1778

De Dion Car Poster
L Elegante Moteurs de Dion Poster. In 1900, de Dion-Bouton was the largest automobile manufacturer in the world, producing 400 cars and 3, 200 engines that year circa 1900

D those Raiders
Damn those Raiders! The searchlight from a German Zeppelin flying over the English coast spoils a tender clifftop moment between a soldier and his sweetheart. circa 1917

Overeating leads to disturbed sleep at Christmas
" A good deal my own fault!" " I took too much dinner!" (Mrs Caudles Lectures) First published in " Punch" in 1845

FEU FOLLET
Two women praying in a French country churchyard are disturbed by the sudden appearance of a feu follet Date: 1877

The Disturbed Nap by William Heath Robinson
Two hikers pause by a ramshackle pub for a drink. Knocking at the door, they are alarmed to find that the entire pub collapses

Noisy neighbours
A man sits alone in his living room, shaking his fists at the ceiling above, where his neighbours are having a noisy party. His newspaper has been crumpled up and thrown to the floor in disgust

Qui Va La? by Will Owen
A French soldier in the traditional red pantalons of early World War One asks, Who Goes There? as he is disturbed by some rabbits frolicking in the snow

SS Sampo, 1898
Photograph of Steamship Sampo a newly constructed ice-breaker, built by Armstrong, Whitworth and Co. for the Senate of Finland, 1898

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