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Pompous Collection

Background imagePompous Collection: Hercule Poirot

Hercule Poirot
HERCULE POIROT the Belgian detective, hero of many of Christies books

Background imagePompous Collection: Fifty Weeks Labour and Fourteen Days Swank!

Fifty Weeks Labour and Fourteen Days Swank!
Comic postcard - Fifty Weeks Labour... and Fourteen Days Swank! Date: 1930

Background imagePompous Collection: Qui Hi's Last March to Padree Burrows's Go Down

Qui Hi's Last March to Padree Burrows's Go Down. An illustration to The Grand Master or Adventures of Qui Hi? in Hindostan. A Hudibrastic Poem in eight cantos by Quiz

Background imagePompous Collection: DANDY / MACARONI 1773

DANDY / MACARONI 1773
MACARONI A rather shallow-looking and irritating young man, known as a Macaroni smirking and supressing a giggle. Date: circa 1773

Background imagePompous Collection: English Colonial District Commissioner, Nairobi, Kenya

English Colonial District Commissioner, Nairobi, Kenya
G. B. Rimmington - English Colonial District Commissioner, of Baringo County, Kenya, East Africa in his full uniform (plus military medals). Date: 1934

Background imagePompous Collection: Endpaper design by Cecil Aldin, The Great Adventure

Endpaper design by Cecil Aldin, The Great Adventure, showing a street in Bunnyborough, with the pompous beadle Mr Swizzle, his shopkeeper wife Mrs Swizzle, and various rabbits. Date: 1921

Background imagePompous Collection: Loving Memory of the German Sausage - Kaiser Wilhelm II

Loving Memory of the German Sausage - Kaiser Wilhelm II Date: circa 1919

Background imagePompous Collection: French view of an English Gent in London

French view of an English Gent in London
Spectacularly stereotypical French view of an English Gent in London, complete with plaid trousers, pith helmet, sinister expression (!) and a background of dark satanic mills!!! Date: 1901

Background imagePompous Collection: Lord North Caricature

Lord North Caricature
FREDERICK, LORD NORTH, 2nd earl of Guilford Statesman, caricatured a portly and pompous (which he probably was !)

Background imagePompous Collection: Toilet / Hair / Macaroni

Toilet / Hair / Macaroni
A rather shallow-looking and irritating young man, known as a " Macaroni" smirking and supressing a giggle and wearing rather a large wig


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