Moral Collection (page 3)

The Princess and the Swineherd - The Swineherd scolded and the rain poured down

The Merry Family, 1668, by Jan Havicksz Steen (c. 1625-1679)
Jan Havicksz Steen (c.1625-1679). Dutch painter. The Merry Familiy, 1668. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

The Lion and the Fox
British Lion " Going to help me, are you? Thank you for nothing, Master Fox. I began the work alone, and I mean to finish it!!

Mesmer Baquet Moral
Mesmers baquet-moral does for the soul what his regular baquet does for the body : vices are eradicated, virtues inculcated, thanks to the powerful forces it exerts

Unrecognised Heroism by H M Bateman, is an illustration of " The couple who go to a wedding without sending a present"

Illustration, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
Illustration to Clarissa, a novel by Samuel Richardson. circa 1770s

Strip tease card game - Prudie suit - Mrs Grundy. A game which features characters involved in performing (and subsequently prosecuting and defending) a striptease

Strip tease card game - Prudie suit - Prohibitionist. A game which features characters involved in performing (and subsequently prosecuting and defending) a striptease

Strip tease card game - Prudie suit - Sour-puss. A game which features characters involved in performing (and subsequently prosecuting and defending) a striptease

Strip tease card game - Prudie suit - Prude. A game which features characters involved in performing (and subsequently prosecuting and defending) a striptease

Strip tease card game - Prudie suit - Wowser. A game which features characters involved in performing (and subsequently prosecuting and defending) a striptease

Strip tease card game - Prudie suit - Prig. A game which features characters involved in performing (and subsequently prosecuting and defending) a striptease

Strip tease card game - Prudie suit - Miss Prim. A game which features characters involved in performing (and subsequently prosecuting and defending) a striptease

Strip tease card game - Prudie suit - Nark. A game which features characters involved in performing (and subsequently prosecuting and defending) a striptease

Strip tease card game - Prudie suit - Informer. A game which features characters involved in performing (and subsequently prosecuting and defending) a striptease

Strip tease card game - Prudie suit - Snoop. A game which features characters involved in performing (and subsequently prosecuting and defending) a striptease

Strip tease card game - Prudie suit - Spoil Sport. A game which features characters involved in performing (and subsequently prosecuting and defending) a striptease

Strip tease card game - Card reverse / back, featuring an exotic dancer on a plinth in a bright spotlight. A game which features characters involved in performing

Jacob Jordaens (1593 A?i? 1678). Flemish Baroque painter. The Satyr and the Peasant. 1620-1621. Alte Pinakothek. Munich. Germany

Moral Tales by Jean Francois Marmontel (1723-1799). Colored
Jean Francois Marmontel (1723-1799). French writer and historian. Moral Tales. Title cover. Edition printed in Liege, 1777. Colored engraving. Library of Catalonia. Barcelona. Spain

The Scruple. Moral Tales by Jean Francois Marmontel (1723-17
Jean Francois Marmontel (1723-1799). French writer and historian. Moral Tales. The Scruple. Edition printed in Liege, 1777. Colored engraving. Library of Catalonia. Barcelona. Spain

Tobias Crisp
TOBIAS CRISP Puritan churchman harassed for his antinomian views, holding that the moral law is not binding on Christians such as he. He died of smallpox. Date: 1600 - 1643

James Beattie, Writer 2
JAMES BEATTIE Scottish poet ( The minstrel ) of no great merit, and moral philosopher (of even less); sadly, his wife went mad. Date: 1735 - 1803

James Beattie, Writer
JAMES BEATTIE Scottish poet ( The minstrel ) of no great merit, and moral philosopher (of even less); his wife went mad. Date: 1735 - 1803

James Beattie, Writer 3
JAMES BEATTIE Scottish poet ( The minstrel ) of no great merit, and moral philosopher (of even less); sad to say, his wife went mad. Date: 1735 - 1803

Father and son studying a snail making its slow progress up a fence. Date: 1859

Father and son with pigs
Father and son admiring two pigs eating from a trough. Date: 1859

Girl admiring a poppy
A girl dressed in imitation of a poppy in a polonaise dress and pantelettes shades herself beneath a parasol as she looks at a poppy with its head held high

Mother scolding daughter for carelessness
A mother scolds her daughter for being careless and dropping her doll on the floor. Date: 1859

Children playing in a nursery
A large group of children play at a table in a nursery. One vain little girl, standing near the door, is in her finery. Date: 1859

Satire on ethics of Louis Pasteurs experiments
A moral dilemma. Satire on the ethics of Louis Pasteurs experiments on animals. Date: 1889

Christmas card with holly in the middle of a maze, and a moralising verse. Date: circa 1890s

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- Z, showing Zaccheus (Zacchaeus) climbing a tree in order to see Jesus. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- Y, showing a group of people enjoying Christmas by a large fireplace where a yule log is burning. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- X, showing Moses with the Ten Commandments. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- W, showing a windmill on a windy day. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- V, showing a group of children going on a trip in a horse-drawn van. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- U, showing two children sheltering from the rain under an umbrella. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- T, showing a steam train emerging from a tunnel. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- R, showing a girl called Rosa with rabbits and roses. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- Q, showing a portrait of a young Queen Victoria. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- P, showing a mother teaching her child to pray. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- O, showing an organ grinder with a group of children. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- L, showing a lighthouse and some lemons. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- M, showing a milkmaid milking a cow on a moor. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- N, showing a boy selling newspapers on a street. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- K, showing three boys about to fly a kite. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- J, showing a judge in his robes. Date: circa 1860

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