Hiding Collection (page 3)

A Fairy Serenade - Fairy Troubadour atop a mushroom
A Fairy Serenade - A Fairy Troubadour atop a mushroom belting out some love songs for his girl... Date: 1920s

Cartoon, Next Weeks Bashers, W E Gladstone
Cartoon, Next Weeks Bashers -- Waiting for the Old Man. Showing William Ewart Gladstone, Liberal Prime Minister, with ruffian MPs waiting for him round a corner. 1884

Concealed machine gun position in the jungle Date: unknown

The War of the Worlds - Comtemplating life in the sewers
" We will have to lead a life underground, do you understand? I thought about the sewers..." Date: First published: 1898

Shakespeare - Twelfth Night - Malvolio: I extend my hand to him thus. circa 1830

Shakespeare - Two Gentlemen of Verona - Silvia: I do detest false perjur d Proteus. circa 1830

Santa Claus in the living room
Santa Claus holding a toy with two happy young faces hiding behind the curtain. Date: 1904

South Africa Cape Colony - Wide Dusty Street - Wide open space, trees hiding buildings. Part of Box 169 Boswell Collection - South Africa Cape Colony. Date: circa 1900

Christmas card in the shape of a woman holding a fan. Date: circa 1890s

Hand of God reveals boys hiding behind a school vaulting b
The hand of God reveals two boys hiding behind a school vaulting box in Eccles. Date: circa 1980

Garibaldis Hut (Capanno Garibaldi), Ravenna, Italy - where he hid from Austrian forces in 1849. Date: circa 1910s

Susi - playing cowboys with boy and toy gun. 1950s

Fantastic Adventures - The serpent has five fangs
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, December 1945, featuring the story The serpent has five fangs by Don Wilcox. A man in safari suit is hiding in the jungle

Italy. 500-475 B. C. Greek myths in Italy. Hero Odysseus, who
Italy. Ancient Art. 500-475 B.C. Greek myths in Italy. Hero Odysseus, who escaped from the Cyclopss cave by hiding under the belly of a ram. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark

Birthday card for an 8th Birthday - one of the two children playing amid the large number eight is dressed in Red Indian (Indigenous Native American) costume. Date: 1930s

Little girl with a fan on a Valentine card
Little girl hiding her face behind a fan on a Valentine card. Date: early 20th century

Little girl in fancy dress on a Valentine card
Little girl in a mask and fancy dress on a Valentine card. Date: early 20th century

Frogs playing hide and seek on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Girl on Rock 1950S
Fifties brunette, standing atop a barnacle encrusted rock in the sea, recreates the Birth of Venus wearing a plaid swimsuit & hiding her modesty with a towel. Date: 1950s

Cartoon, Croesus, WW1
Cartoon, Croesus (Cresus). A comment on the food shortage in France during the First World War - a man hides his egg in a safe

Mary Pickford as Poor Little Peppina
Mary Pickford (1892 1979), Canadian-American film actress as Poor Little Peppina

Cartoon, The peaceful ex-scarecrow, WW1
Cartoon, the peaceful ex-scarecrow, a satirical comment on the mistake of believing in a peaceful relationship between France and Germany during the First World War. Date: 1915

Tibetan Devil Dancers
Priests, dressed as demons, process through a village Date: 1910

Cartoon, Little Red Riding Hood in a wartime version in which a little French girl encounter a German officer (wolf) hiding behind a tree. Date: 1919

Bernhard Dernburg / Barrer
BERNHARD DERNBURG German financier hiding a gun behind his back Date: -

Martin Luther concealed in Wartburg
Excommunicated by the pope, Luther is concealed for safety by Friedrich von Sachsen in a castle at Wartburg where he translates the New Testament Date: 1521

Girl with a fan on a New Year card. circa 1890s

Patient fishermen, illustration by William Heath Robinson
A party of benevolent philanthropists rewarding the patience of unfortunate fishermen, illustration by William Heath Robinson. Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J. C

Alice in Wonderland, Alice and a large puppy
Alice in Wonderland, Alice hides from a large puppy. Date: early 20th century

WW1 - French artillery masked during the action
WW1 - A high caliber, artillery of the French Navy is moved and stowed away by a group of soldiers. They weapon is masked away during the action under a purposely-built camouflage tented area

Cupid hiding in a myrtle bush, Myrtus communis.. Handcolored steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from Les Fleurs Animees, Flower Fairies, Paris

Agama / Agamid Lizard - camouflaged by sand pattern on its back (Agamidae sp.). sand dunes of Central Karakum desert - Turkmenistan - Spring - April

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

Lioness in long grass (Panthera leo). Ruaha National Park - Tanzania - Africa

Hazel Hen / Hazel Grouse - female sits on nest (Tetrastes bonasia). near river Negustyah, a tributary of river Bolshoi Ugan, near Ugut settlement; Uganskii Nature reserve, Siberia, Russia; spring

European HEDGEHOGS - young behind mother, autumn (Erinaceus europaeus)

Common Sandpiper - on nest (Totanus hypoleucos). common but difficult to find on taiga-forest floor near river Negustyah, a tributary of river Bolshoi Ugan

Common Sandpiper - on the nest; common but difficult to find on taiga forest floor near river Negustyah, (Totanus hypoleucos)

Siberian Chipmunk - hiding on pine tree (Tamias sibiricus). Forest in North Ural Mountains, Russia

Bengal / Indian TIGER - close-up, snarling, in reeds. Camouflaged, facing camera (Panthera tigris). India

The Last Man by William Heath Robinson, WW1 cartoon
The Last Man by William Heath Robinson, showing a gentleman perched precariously on the top of Nelsons Column while numerous women search for him below - a comment on the shortage of men

Moor FROG - watching beetle (Donacia sp), (Rana arvalis Nilsson). Russia

The Missing Mas-Cat by H. M. Bateman
The crew of a Royal Navy battleship search high and low for the ships cat, which is hiding mischievously in the barrel of one of the large guns. Date: 1918

Cartoon, The Two Extremes of Public Opinion, WW1
Cartoon, The Two Extremes of Public Opinion, Optimism and Pessimism, during the First World War. On the left is a smiling, patriotic man reading the financial news

Concealing a British hospital from enemy, WW1
Spreading mud on a hospital marquee at Salonika in order that it shall not form an easy target from the sky by enemy bombers. Date: 1916

Aeroplane raid over Afganistan, 1919
An aeroplane used over Afganistan as part of the North West India frontier war in 1919. British planes were sucessfully employed to bomb native tribesmen

Finns v. Russian tanks by G. H. Davis
Finns v. Russian tanks: bombing from pits under the snow during the Second World War. How Finnish bombers get to close quarters with tanks by hiding in camouflaged pits

Queen of Greece reading The Sketch
The Queen of Greece, formerly Princess Sophie of Prussia, hides herself from a photographer on the beach at Eastbourne with a copy of The Sketch magazine

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