Loser Collection

Sporting Gal and her horse - Dumb Luck
Dumb Luck Sporting Gal and her horse bemoaning the lack of success in the previous race. Dobbin is still the lucky recipient of a chunk of finest Tate & Lyle... Date: circa 1910

Cilly Aussem and Hilde Krahwinkel at Wimbledon
Cilly Aussem (1909-1963) had just won the women's singles final at Wimbledon - becoming the first German competitor, male or female, to win a singles title there

Sculling championship won by Edward Hanlan, River Tyne
The Sculling Championship won by Canadian Edward Hanlan over Englishman William Elliott, on the River Tyne, 19 June 1879 Date: 1879

Cartoon, Reckoning without their host, WW1
Cartoon, Reckoning without their host. Defeated at Verdun, Germany, Prussia and Death walk away despondently. A smiling French soldier in the background says they had everything planned

King Edward II of England turned away from Stirling Castle after losing the Battle of Bannockburn, June 1314, part of the First War of Scottish Independence

Gentlemen and lady playing cards in a parlour, while others dance in the next room. He says, You ve hit a vein. I congratulate you Madame! He thinks, The devil take you

Cartoon, result of a football match
Cartoon, result of a rugby match -- Whos won? - Weve lost - What have you got in that bag? - The Umpire! Date: 1889

Some British Workmen - A Brass Finisher - play on words as this punter has lost ( finished with ) all his brass. Perhaps the consumption of the two bottle of champagne (pictured discarded behind him)

Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent at Wimbledon
The Duchess of Kent with the champion of the mens singles final at Wimbledon, Frederick Schroeder and the gallant loser, Jaroslav Drobny

Cartoon, Kaiser Wilhelm and a fortune teller, WW1
Cartoon, Kaiser Wilhelm goes to consult a fortune teller to find out when the war will end. Date: 1916

American anti-gambling cartoon
An American anti-gambling cartoon, showing a Rum-Soaked Old Sport sitting at a table. The verse below ends: It would be very hard to find / A more worthless, useless sample of mankind. Date: 1906

Boys playing in street, Balham, SW London
Boys playing in a street in Balham, SW London. They seem to be playing a game where the loser has to take off an item of clothing. Date: circa 1961

Alexinatz evacuation. Serbia. 19th century. Engraving by Rico. Colored

Caricature of Benjamin Disraeli -- His Last Innings
Caricature of Benjamin Disraeli, Conservative politician, on losing the General Election to the Liberal party -- His Last Innings! Bowled Gladstone! 1880

Cartoon, The imperial eagle, WW1
Cartoon, The imperial eagle. He will return to his eyrie devoid of feathers, never to return. A comment on a German retreat during the First World War. Date: 1916

Bonzos dud show by George Studdy
Bonzos dud show. He had been expecting first prize, but loses out to two pedigree dogs, a bull terrier and a bulldog. George Ernest Studdy (1878-1948), was the creator of Bonzo

The Kaiser suffers throughout the war
Before, During and After... Throughout WW1, Kaiser Wilhelms helmet slowly loses its shape and his moustache droops lower and lower as the situation progressively worsens for his side

Apparition in Spain, 1704
During the War of the Spanish Succession, a combat between two warriors is seen in the skies, the victor proclaiming I will rule, the loser I have ruled. Very ominous... Date: 1704

Culmination of fight
An altercation between two men on a cliff top ends with the loser falling over the cliff edge to his death. Date: 19th Century

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