Painful Collection (page 2)

Fakir with Hooks in Back
Placing hooks in the back of a fakir : not only is the process painful, but the wounds will fester and lead to further pain, apart from the discomfort Date: circa 1900

Hair Curling Clips
A girl having rather painful looking clips put into her hair, presumably to make it curl into the kind of curly hairstyle made popular by child star Shirley Temple. Date: 1930s

Cartoon, Difficult extraction, WW1
Cartoon, Difficult extraction. French soldiers undertake some impromptu dental work for a colleague. Don t worry, old friend, we ll get them! Date: 1916

Fakir on bed of nails, India
Fakir (a religious ascetic) sitting on a bed of nails, India. Date: circa 1890s

Chinese woman with bound feet. Date: circa 1890

Bound foot, China
Two photographs of a womans bound foot, China. Date: circa 1890

Woman with bound feet, China. Date: circa 1890

Out of Doors -- horse with stone in hoof
Out of Doors -- a horse (Bob) has a stone in his hoof. Date: 19th century

Ulrich Falls
ULRICH von LICHTENSTEIN The German minnesinger has a romantic, but probably painful adventure... Date: 1200 - 1276

A recuperating wounded WW1 soldier gets his comeuppance - initial delights at the idea of a massage from nurse on the Monday turns into stark realisation tat this might not be quite so pleasurable

Have a Pain-free Year - Danish New Years Card
Have a Pain-free Year - Humorous Danish New Years Card showing a Gent atop an early aeroplane approaching his victim with tooth-removal pliers. Date: 1905

A little girl loses her beau to a prettier model
The Jilt. A little girl loses her beau to a prettier model. She is dreadful upset and even her dolly is sharing her pain and loss! Even her puppy seems to be off! Date: circa 1890s

A Painful Subject - silhouette by Konewka
Silhouette of a teacher brutally thrashing his pupil by the German silhouettist Konewka Date: c.1830

Patsys Mericle. Young Patsy, the son of Widow O Keefe skipped school in order to drive the pigs to market, but unfortunately ran into his schoolteacher Mr Muldoon on the way

Crocodile Tears
A crocodile with toothache cries tears of pain. Drawing on a postcard by George Ranstead an amateur artist of the Great War who served in the Army Pay Corps

Granpop Gets Down to Brass Tacks by Lawson Wood
Humorous illustration by Lawson Wood featuring his orang utan character, Granpop, descending a ladder only to stand painfully on some brass tacks. His porcine companion seems to find this hilarious

Christmas decorations / Ally Sloper
Whilst decorating his dining room with holly, Ally Sloper slips and falls through the chair he has been standing on - a painful experience

Toothache by Raymond Sheppard - an abstract depiction of a drill boring into teeth and the fiery pain it causes

Lear / Nonsense / Chilli
There was an Old Person of Chili, whose conduct was painful and silly, He sate on the stairs, eating apples and pears, that imprudent Old Person of Chili

Mishap with an Umbrella
An unthinking young lady in a long horizontal bonnet, while keeping her head down, accidentally stabs a unsuspecting man with the point of her umbrella. OUCH!

Sympathy for French priest with toothache
An elderly woman in a frilly pink crinoline shows sympathy for a young French priest who is suffering from the toothache

Swapping Hearts W Jesus
MIRACULOUS HEART TRANSPLANT Saint Catherine of Siena exchanges hearts - temporarily - with Jesus; because his is bigger than hers, its more painful for her than for him

Dressmakers Bill
What has brought furrows to this young ladys forehead ? Her dressmakers bill, known as la douloureuse (the painful one)

Mines : Trapper Boy
A TRAPPER BOY opens & closes doors in the galleries : Everything shows the life of the little trapper to be one of the most solitary and painful description

Androcles & the Lion
The lion set to devour Androcles in the Roman arena recognises him as the man who rid him of a painful thorn in his paw, and does not harm him

Nuns Dressing a Wound
A saintly nun pours soothing ointment / oil onto the bandages of the bed-ridden man who swoons with the pain. Another nun brings in some hot coffee or is it more unctions?

Bewick / Sloth
(Bradypus tridactylus) All its motions seem to be the effect of the most painful exertion, which hunger alone is capable of exciting. (We all know how it feels...)

French travelling dentist in a town square
A French travelling dentist in a town square, standing at the back of a colourful yellow wagon with a female patient at his side

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