Dunk Collection

People sitting on street, Whitechapel, East London
Locals sitting out on the street or chatting with their neighbours. The location is probably at the corner of Old Montague Street and Dunk Street in the Whitechapel area of East London

Comic postcard, Pretty woman and psychiatrist Date: 20th century

Johnny in the West Indies pursued by a black squadron
English Navy officer fleeing from an angry Massa planter and Quashee enslaved men barndishing cudgels in Jamaica. Captain Newcome waves his bicorn at a rowboat in the bay

Medieval game of diving for apples, while another boy threatens to upend the bench and dunk him in the tub. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports

Medieval games: boy diving for apples on a bench while another boy threatens to upend the bench and dunk the boy in the tub (top)

George Earl Halifax
GEORGE MONTAGU DUNK, earl of HALIFAX statesman, paired with a Mrs D--s--n, perhaps an actress ? Date: 1716 - 1771

Sir Wilfrid Lawson with Labouchere, Healy and Gibson Bowles
The Story of the Wicked Wags (cont.). Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet (18291906) an English temperance campaigner and radical

The Lady of the Lake - Old Soak fished out of the water
The Lady of the Lake - A Drunken Old Soak is fished out of the water by a dapper gent in a punt. Her bottle heads for the bottom and perhaps the dunking has sobered her up! Date: circa 1915

She made them some broth without any bread
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, she had so many children... She made them some broth without any bread -- an illustration to the nursery rhyme

Shakespeare / Janssen / Dunk
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Playwright and poet. Rectangular portrait

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