Poorly Collection

Art / Hogarth / Roast Beef
THE GATE OF CALAIS, OR, O THE ROAST BEEF OF OLD ENGLAND a satire on the well-fed English versus the poorly- fed French

Cephos cold and flu powder advertisement
Advert for Cephos cold and flu powder depicting a poorly looking woman, dressed rather smartly, and standing, hanging onto a strap on a bus or tube train

Italians Take Adwa
The Italians invade and capture Adua, against a poorly equipped and ill-prepared Ethiopian army

Messerschmitt Bf-109G Replica N700E, (msn 577), Messerschmitt Bf 109G replica, constructed (poorly) using a Hispano HA-1112 M1L as the airframe. Date: circa 1990

Original Artwork - cartoon strip - Simply Simon ill in bed
Original Artwork for a Simply Simon cartoon strip - Simon ill in bed, trying to be a good dog. Iris Chick had a regular cartoon spot for Simon in Tail-Wagger magazine in the late 1930s

Original Artwork - Get Better Quick card design
Original Artwork - Design for a Get Better Quick card featuring a poorly teddy bear with an attentive young nurse holding a bottle of Castor Oil. A play on the word bear ! Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Novelty Greetings card design - Medicine
Original Artwork - Novelty Greetings card design with bottle of Tonic and Prescription tag. Date: circa 1937

Postcard design - A Colds a horrid thing to get. Little girl blowing her nose with a handkerchief. Date: circa 1937

Postcard design artwork - Obey your Doctor and your Nurse. A nurse approaches a sickly child bearing a LARGE bottle of medicine. Date: circa 1937

Postcard design artwork - Get well soon. A child in bed is offered a spoonful of medicine by their pet Scottie Dog. Date: circa 1937

Postcard design artwork - Get well quick! A parent (bearing grapes) and a nurse (with a pot plant!) fussing and petting an ill young child in bed. Date: circa 1937

Postcard design - Sick child wrapped in blanket
Postcard design artwork - Young boy (possibly a little poorly) huddled up in a check blanket. Date: circa 1937

Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister - Resigns due to ill-health
Andrew Bonar Law (1858 - 1923), British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1922 to 1923. Resigns due to ill-health in May, 1923. Date: 1923

A Good Turn - Get Well Soon
A little girl reads a book with an invalid friend who is recuperating in bed. Date: c. 1930

Passengers feeling poorly as the Channel boat pitches... Date: 1897

ART / HOGARTH / ROAST BEEF
THE GATE OF CALAIS, OR, O THE ROAST BEEF OF OLD ENGLAND a satire on the well-fed English versus the poorly- fed French Date: 1749

Boy with nurse, Jaipur, India
A nurse cares for a sick boy in a hospital ward, Jaipur, India Date: 1987

Perfect Wives by Joyce Dennys The wife who had influenza too
Joyce Dennys on Marriage: Perfect Wives. No. 1- The Wife who had influenza too. Despite suffering herself, a woman ends up waiting upon her husband who has a serious case of man flu. Date: 1929

The Dispensary at the London Hospital, Whitechapel
Patients with a variety of ailments being administered medicine at the Dispensary at the London Hospital in Whitechapel, East London in 1888. Date: 1888

Poorly puppy by the fire - His First Trouble by G E Studdy
His First Trouble by G E Studdy - A poorly puppy, wrapped up warm by the fire staring across to his medicine on the hearth with apprehension. Date: 1912

The Netherlands - The perils of smoking (1 / 2)
The perils of smoking. A group of young Dutch Boys suffer the consequences of having a puff on their Fathers pipes! Date: circa 1910s

Poorly Vented Drains
Satire on poorly vented labyrinthine drainage in rented accommodation

Poor Construction, Satire
Satire on dire consequences of poorly constructed houses

Child in a Russian Kindergarden Hospital
A nurse using a stethoscope in a Middle Asian Republic (eastern Russia) Kindergarden to check up on the health of a small child. Date: 1930 s

Children and Nurses in a Russian Kindergarden
A Kindergarden in the Mid Asian Russian republic in the 1930s run by nineteen nurses. Date: 1930 s

Old Yokel extols the fighting qualities of his son
" My Laad Garge as bin feaghtin t Booers. If e only whopped em like e did is did is Old Woman, ed mak em sit up, I tell ye." Date: 1900

A Sovereign Remedy
John Bull holds the hand of a rather unhealthy looking pound note in a satirical illustration which alludes to the falling value of sterling against the dollar in 1920

Blown-up bridge in Warsaw
A bridge over the Vistula at Warsaw, blown up by the Russians in their retreat through Poland. In May 1915, the combined forces of Austria-Hungary

The Deck of the Refugee Ship North Britain, 1882
Engraving of the passengers on board the ship North Britain fleeing from Egypt, 1882. This engraving shows children playing cards and a lady in eastern dress smoking a hookah

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