Poking Collection

Kitten in a Maltesers cardboard box
A sweet little black and white kitten pokes its head out from a Mars Maltesers cardboard box

Photographer explains the posing machine in his studio
The cartoon follows a photographer explaining and poking fun at the posing machine used when capturing portraits in a studio.He comments on getting people to sit for a photograph is an art form in

Turf Whist, playing cards scorecard, cards and cat
Turf Whist, playing cards scorecard, cat poking its head through loose cards

Fowls In Sunlight
A painting of some chickens in a clearing of a wooded area, one of them is poking it's head into a tilted basket. Date: circa 1917

Pig in Pen
Pigs poking their snouts through their pen. Date: 1930s

Mrs Grundy anywhere about? - A young girl checks before emerging from a beach tent... Mrs Grundy is a figurative name for an extremely conventional or priggish person

Man on gate outside seafood processing factory shovels ice
A man sits on a gate outside a seafood processing factory and shovels ice into a red skip. The ice is used during the processing of scallops in Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland

A cheeky mouse tickles a scruffy white dogs nose
" I just love to tickle you" - a cheeky little mouse playfully tickles a scruffy white dogs nose. Date: 1916

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Date: 1906

Greetings card in the shape of a handbag, with ducks
Greetings card in the shape of a handbag, with two ducks poking their heads out. Date: circa 1890s

Horse Litter of 1325
A fine picture of a medieval horse litter with its well- to-do occupant poking his head out from under the covering to check on the progress of the journey

Clown with head through paper on a Christmas card
Clown with his head poking through a torn ring of paper on a Christmas card -- Here we are again. Date: circa 1890s

Two fairies on a Christmas card, sitting by a fire, one with holly in his hair. With ornate gold and white edging. Date: circa 1890s

A wasted life: satire on the invention of tanks, WW1
Kaiser Wilhelm II chides Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and aircraft manufacturer, for not inventing anything useful, like the armoured tanks of the allies. Date: 1916

Wm. Hamilton Maxwell - 4
WILLIAM HAMILTON MAXWELL Irish writer - the only portrait we have of him without a dog poking its nose into the picture... Date: 1792 - 1850

French WW2 Propaganda postcard - Siegfried Line leaking
French WW2 Propaganda postcard showing the German Defensive Siegfried Line having been attacked and sprung a leak! The fish is wittily asking the bashed-up German soldiers

Egyptian street knife grinder - Port Said. A young boy is fascinated and has popped his head out of a small window to watch the grinder grinding away. Date: circa 1902

Caricature of Hungarian artist Mihaly Munkacsy by Phil May
A rather harsh parody / caricature of the Hungarian artist Mihaly Munkacsy (1844-1900) and his famous religious painting of 1896 Ecce Homo! (" Behold the Man!" ) by Phil May. Date: 1898

Horses in Stables
A black cat stands in front of a row of horse stables, chatting to the horses. whose heads are poking out of each stable door! Date: 1960s

Playing with the garden hose
Classic 1930s family illustration, depicting a young boy sitting with his sisters and Mother in the garden in the summer sun and fixing the blocked nozzle of the garden hose sprinkler

Chimney pots with sweeps brush poking out
Two chimney pots with a sweeps brush poking out of one of them -- the last place to choose when looking for somewhere safe to build a nest! Date: 1937

Humourous Russian postcard
Laughing at the Fat Pig - a humourous Russian postcard poking fun at a rotund Russian farmer (possibly having had a vodka too many) who has fallen asleep in the pig sty

The Site of Pompeii
A view of the site of Pompeii in the 19th century, with tantalising pieces of archaeology poking through the ash, and Vesuvius smoking menacingly in the distance

Tom and the Fairy
Tom is told off by Ellie for poking a crab

English Country Clothes
A pipe-smoking countryman at Chertsey Agricultural Show and his high-booted companion perching on her shooting- stick; he wears gaiters and has stick for poking livestock

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