Gloomy Collection

Pierrot and Columbine -- Smile, Please
Columbine tickles a gloomy Pierrot with a peacock feather and asks him to Smile, Please!

London Boxing 1870
Two fighters slug it out in the gloomy interior of a tent, watched by a small crowd of Londoners who have probably bet on the outcome

Rossetti / Family Group
Poet and artist, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), with his sister Christina, his brother William Michael, and their mother in a photograph by Lewis Carroll (Rev CL Dodgson), 1863

The Embankment at Night - Base of Cleopatras Needle
The Embankment at Night - Sphinx at the base of Cleopatras Needle. Date: circa 1910s

Thames Embankment by night - View toward Westminster, London
Thames Embankment by night - View toward the Houses of Parliament, Big Ben and Westminster Bridge, London. Note the elctricity saving of only lighting every other light. Date: circa 1910s

Trafalgar Square, London on a foggy night - the neon lights on the circular dome of the Coliseum Theatre on St. Martins Lane can be seen peeking out over the distant rooftops beyond

Railway signal at night
Colour-light signalling, a modern innovation in the early 1960s, on an electrified railway line. Electrification of busy routes demanded a system of train control that was rapid

Ww1 / 1915 / German Optimism
The German people favours OPTIMISMUS rather than PESSIMISMUS [though isn t it ironic that the sign should be rose-tinted spectacles ?]

Battersea Bridge
This pastel painting provides a gloomy view of Battersea Bridge, an arch bridge which spans the river Thames in London, designed by the architect Joseph Bazalgette circa 1890. Date: circa 1919

Sorcerer's Tower
An imaginative painting of a sinister looking Sorcerer's tower, standing imposingly under a gloomy, night sky. Date: circa 1918

Near Kirkwall
A landscape oil painting of a mixed view of land and water, the buildings in the background stand under some gloomy, grey clouds. Date: circa 1918

Cedric Hardwicke in Role
A portrait of the actor Cedric Hardwicke (1893-1964) playing the role of Edward Moulton-Barrett in the play The Barretts of Wimpole Street'

Hanging Man
An ominous Pastel artwork of a dark and gloomy landscape, the focus is drawn to the lone figure of a man left to hang. Date: circa 1929

The Effects of Wine on different Temperaments Date: 19th century

SANCHEZ, Pedro. Spanish painter active in Seville in the second half of the fifteenth century. THE BURIAL OF CHRIST. Painting on wood. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary

MONTAGNANA, Jacopo da (1440-/43-1499). Italian painter. MADONNA AND DEAD CHRIST. Tempera on wood. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary

Comic postcard, Gloomy businessman - Ups and Downs Date: 20th century

Lots Road Power Station, Chelsea, London
Distant view of Lots Road Power Station, Chelsea, London. Date: circa 1930s

Trafalgar Squre by night, London. Date: circa 1909

Interior of a coal mine, Newcastle upon Tyne. circa 1850

Byrons Early Love by E M Ward. 19th century

Officers by trenches, meeting at dusk, WW1
Officers by trenches, meeting at dusk, First World War. 1914-1918

Royal Air Force - Bristol Britannia C. 1 XL656
Royal Air Force - Bristol Britannia C.1 XL656 Adhara (msn13455) at a wet and gloomy RAF Lyneham, dis-gorging Air cadets after an experience flight

St Mary the Virgin Church, Friston, East Sussex
circa 1910s

The Christmas Waits 1848
Town waits, playing their musical instruments while people are standing around listening. From medieval times up to the early 19th century

Youth in blue hoodie on Southport Pier
A male youth in blue hoodie walks past the Promenade Express train on Southport Pier, Merseyside, England Date: 2010

The Victoria Memorial on a foggy night - view from Buckingham Palace. Date: circa 1910s

Cartoon, The Optimist and the Pessimist, showing two men reading the same news items about the war but reacting in very different ways. Date: 1915

Camera oscura from Giovanni Battista della Porta s
" Camera oscura from Giovanni Battista della Portas " Magia naturalis" (1558). Edition of 1659, included Roger Bacons writings. Engraving."

A Classic English Summers Day on the beach! The rain is pouring, it is freezing cold and even the dog appears to not be relishing his daily stroll

Soho, London - Tisbury Court W1, with a view of Rupert Street at the far end. 1973

Liliova Street, Prague, Czechoslovakia
The rather creepy-looking Liliova Street in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where the ghost of a headless horseman is said to make nightly visits. Date: circa 1960s

Basilica of Carlo al Corso at sunset. Backlight. Rome
Italy. Rome. Basilica of Carlo al Corso at sunset. Backlight

Giuseppe Crespi (1665 1747). Searching for Fleas. 1715 / 20
Giuseppe Crespi (1665 1747), nicknamed Lo Spagnuolo. Italian late Baroque painter of the Bolognese School. Searching for Fleas. 1715/20. Oil on canvas. Museum of Louvre. Paris

Cartoon, An economical holiday. Three middle aged French ladies in hats and coats, not enjoying their trip to the seaside. Date: 1919

Rossetti / Watts
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poet and Pre-Raphaelite artist Date: 1828 - 1882

Alexander Pope / London
ALEXANDER POPE English poets home at Plough Court, Lombard Street, in the City of London Date: 1688 - 1744

Trade / Market / London
A rather gloomy market at New Cut, Lambeth, London. Date: 1870

When the Land is White with Winter: A Frosty Morning
Double page colour photograph of When The Land Is White With Winter: A Frosty Morning, by Harry W Adams, as published in the Sketch of 12th December 1928

A Spring storm sweeping over the Valley of River Arno, Italy. Date: 1905

Tuscan Olive Gardens and the hills of the Casentino on a misty morning. Date: 1905

French women knitting in wine cellar, Rheims, WW1
French women knitting comforts for soldiers in a gloomy wine cellar, dimly lit by candles in Rheims, a refuge from shell-fire in the frequently bombarded city. Date: 1914

Rawalpindi outgunned by Deutschland by G. H. Davis
The first sea battle of the Second World War: the British armed merchant cruiser Rawalpindis heroic stand, outgunned by the Deutschland

Dean Inge Photo
WILLIAM RALPH INGE - English churchman, professor of divinity, author, known as the gloomy Dean (of St Pauls), wearing the weird garb of senior churchmen. Date: 1860 - 1954

Trafalgar Square, London - At Night - The misty form of The Church of St Martin in the Fields can be seen past the silhouettes of one of the four bronze lions, on granite plinths

The honesty of an Elderly Irish Woman - Mortality
Mrs Murphy - " Shure its goin to be a moighty hard winter, Father dear; there ll be a moighty lot av us owld Folks Nipped in the BUd, oi m thinking." Date: circa 1890s

The interior of a traditional Dutch cottage at Volendam - a Dutch woman talking to he seated Mother Date: 1898

The Charm of a London Night Fog - amazing lighting effects as the beam of a street light diffuses through the shape of a roadside tree. Date: 1919

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