Knut Collection

King Canute (Cnut)
KING CNUT / CANUTE King of England (1016-35) and Denmark (1018-35)

HAMSUN, Knut (1859-1952). Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize in 1920. Painting

Font in the Saxon church of St. Marys at Deerhurst, Gloucestershire, England, scene of a treaty between Canute and Edmund Ironside in 1016. Date: circa 1920s

King Canute gets his feet wet
King Canute of England (1016-1035) and Denmark (1018-1035) gets his feet rather wet as he attempts to command the waves! The story may be apocryphal

Intolerable! by Norman Morrow
First Slacker (to second ditto): " These lighting restrictions - darn d nuisance. Hailed a " taxi" the other night

Silhouette artist about town - Burlington Arcade
The Burlington Arcade in Piccadilly depicted in silhouette with a number of dandyish young men, popularly known as knuts parading along or pausing to look in the arcades shop windows. Date: 1914

Vesta Tilley as Algy, the Piccadilly Johnny
Vesta Tilley (1864-1952), born Matilda Alice Powles, later Lady de Frece, music hall actress whose speciality was male impersonations

Johnny Get Your Gun by Frank Reynolds, outbreak of WW1
Illustration by Frank Reynolds showing a young man in tennis whites smoking a cigarette hesitating while the rest of the country rush to the colours at the outbreak of the First World War

The attraction of a man in khaki by Fish, WW1
Illustration showing fashionable types including a typical male nut (a leisured dandy), realise that men in uniform are far more likely to attract ladies

HAMSUN, Knut (1859-1952). Norwegian writer, Nobel
" HAMSUN, Knut (1859-1952). Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize in 1920. " Just and ordinary fly of average size". Cover."

The Shell and Kernel of a Knut
The discarded civilian clothes of a " knut" as he marches off to fight for a higher cause during World War One

Knut Hamsun / Pedersen / Sim
KNUT HAMSUN Norwegian writer, Nobel 1920

King Hardicanute (Hardecanute, Harthacnut)
HARDICANUTE or HARDECANUTE or HARTHACNUT King of England (1040-42) and King of Denmark (1035-42)

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