Misery Collection

Scrooge Sees Marley Face
Scrooge is startled to see Marleys face on his door, instead of the knocker

Children Drinking C1840
Two young children share a jug of gin outside a tavern. Are they beginning a life of intemperate misery, foulness and degradation in the eyes of God?

Man with broken umbrella stands in pouring rain
Man in raincoat, hat and galoshes standing in the middle of a field in pouring rain holding up a broken umbrella for protection. (John Turner self-portrait.) Date: 1930s

Amateur Studio portrait photograph of a teenage girl
Amateur Studio portrait photograph - shot in the back garden with suitable table and plant pot props - the subject is not the most jolly ever - I don t think that hat was a regular personal choice

Village called Misery, France, WW1

Misery Village France WW1

Alican Land Barrage Balloons
A WW2 children's story book illustration from The Story Of Alican Land, written by Joan Hunt. The image shows some Alican Land barrage ballons used to push back the misery dragons

Death of Ellenai, 1883, by Jacek Malczewski (1854-1929)
Jacek Malczewski (1854-1929). Polish painter. Death of Ellenai, 1883. Detail. 19th Century Polish Art Gallery (Sukiennice Museum). National Museum of Krakow. Poland. Date: 2018

English gentleman flirting with the Fair Limonadiere
Young English gentleman flirting with the Fair Limonadiere in the Cafe de Mille Colonnes, Palais Royal, Paris. Waiters bringing hot chocolate to fashionable ladies, soldiers and officers

English lady receiving surprise visitors in breakfast room, 19th century. Mrs Lucy Somerville curtsies to Mrs Watkins, Mr Willie Watkins, and Miss Watkins. A maid in torn apron opens the door

MISERY & A MISER MISERY & A MISER
Two attics: misery in one, a miser in the other Date: 1855

HOMELESS FAMILY / ADELPHI
Taking the census in the dark arches of the Adelphi. A bulls-eye lamp illuminates the misery of a homeless family sheltering under the arches. Date: 1861

HOMELESS IN ST JAMESS
Early morning - the Enumerator taking the census in St Jamess Park. The homeless are woken and interviewed. Date: 1861

Despairing man with his head in his hands
" The Mind and visage oft are things apart; a smiling face oft masks a breaking heart." - character study by Phil May of a man in the deepest throes of despair. Date: circa 1890s

Black Humour - It could be worse, you could be blind and wet
Black Humour - It could be worse, you could be a blind beggar singing for your supper/lodging in the rain... Date: circa 1904

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

Prison reformer John Howard visiting a prison
An engraving of Francis Wheatleys 1787 painting of John Howard Visiting and Relieving the Miseries of a Prison. Howard (third from right) (1726-1790)

The Bird of Paradise by Richard Walton Tully. First produced in England Lyric Theatre on the 11th September 1919. The setting is Hawaii

Waterford from Misery Hill - an elevated view of the town at the other side of the river, there is a bridge and boats. (Location: Republic of Ireland; County Waterford; Waterford)

Luis de Morales, the Divine (c. 1510-1586). Ecce Homo
Renaissance Art. Espana.16th century. Luis de Morales, the Divine (c. 1510-1586). Spanish painter. Ecce Homo. Cathedral Museum. Avila. Castile and Leon

Suffragette Annie Kenney Character Sketch. A Character Sketch of Annie Kenney (1879-1953) written by Frederick Pethick-Lawrence with an article by Annie Kenney on Prison faces This recounts

Cocky Scot - a Study in Misery. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

Thomas Spademan
THOMAS SPADEMAN churchman who, though he does not seem to have contributed much to the gaiety of nations, neither did he cause them misery or grief. Date: 18TH CENTURY

Spinster Street Singer sings her tale of woe
Spinster Street Singer and her tale of woe, sung in tremulous tones !! Street Singer (in tremulous tones) - " An oi tell them they need not come wooin ter me." Date: 1900

St. Kitts, West Indies - Stone Fort with Mount Misery in the distance Date: circa 1905

DAVID, Jules (1808-1892)

Misery loves company; - but they hope soon to be out of it. Illustration shows John Bull standing up to his knees in a morass labeled Boer War $16, 000

Misery loves company. Illustration shows Thomas W. Lawson with his Americas Cup entry Independence and Nathanael G. Herreshoff with his Americas Cup entry Constitution consoling each other after

Gonorrhea causes blindness - arthritis, invalidism and misery It can be prevented and cured : For examination and free pamphlets go to your doctor or Dept. of Health clinic

The Waning Moon I m going down-hill fast, My bones are cold, its raining, My money spent, my chances past, I m waning, waning, waning! Date: circa 1910s

Going into the Garden to Eat Worms
An expression of utmost displeasure and disappointment - a little chick completely fed up states: " Nobody loves me - I m going into the garden to eat worms." Date: 1918

Milton / Comus 1634
And they, so perfect is their misery, Not once perceive their foul disfigurement, But boast themselves more comely than before. Date: First published : 1634

Emotional Man
GRIEF A romantic gentleman, who has just lost his beloved, reproaches the moon for its indifference to his misery Date: circa 1820

Scottish Misery
A Scottish soldier plays mournfully on his bagpipes, nose dripping and unconsoled by whisky or jam, at the first wartime Christmas

Scene below Decks
Misery below decks : a few passengers are able to enjoy their meal but most are unhappy and some are literally sea-sick

An Innocent Abroad
Humorous illustration by Bruce Bairnsfather showing a young soldier sheltering in his funk hole in a trench while an " Ole Bill" type character observes his misery

Census Underneath Arches
Taking the census in the dark arches of the Adelphi. A bulls-eye lamp illuminates the misery of a homeless family sheltering under the arches

Homeless in St James s
Early morning - the Enumerator taking the census in St Jamess Park. The homeless are woken and interviewed

Shop, Front & Back
BOUTIQUE ET ARRIERE-BOUTIQUE the customer sees the well- appointed front shop, little guessing at the misery at the back

Scrooge & Ghost
" You will be haunted, " resumed the ghost, " by three spirits." Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley

Eve of Day of Doom 1000
The panic caused in the Tenth Century by the belief Satan was about to be let loose to work the misery of men, having been bound for a thousand years (Revelation XX, vs 2, 3)

Poor Flower Girl C19
An impoverished London flower girl sells posies on the street with her two children

Mother in Law / Moloch
A French bell-mere (mother-in- law) depicted as a knife- wielding old misery surrounded by cactuses

Miserable Girl
Oh Aldyth, I am the most miserable girl in the world !

Propjet Jeremiah
Hebrew prophet from near Jerusalem, whose forecasts were so bleak that a jeremiad has become a synonym for a litany of misery

Dog having Bath Aldin
A rather uncomfortable-looking dog is given his bath

Pyne - Watering Cart
A WATERING CART - Whoever has experienced the misery of dust upon a highway crouded with carriages in the heat of summer, must acknowledge the utility of the watering cart

Judgment (Blake)
The Day of Judgment - God presides, an angel sounds the last trump, the virtuous (on the left) rise to their eternal bliss, the wicked fall to endless misery

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