Reluctant Collection

Dog Begging Owner
Her dachshund is proposing a walk : she is reluctant to abandon her book just as its getting interesting, but she will probably yield

Hogarth before After
Before A reluctant lady and her seducer

Scene from Shakespeares Twelfth Night
A scene from Shakespeares comedy, Twelfth Night, in which Sir Toby Belch encourages the reluctant duellists, Sir Andrew Aguecheek and the page Cesario (Viola disguised)

Group Sketch
This sketch shows a mother holding her grown, reluctant daughter as they speak with a large gentleman wearing a top hat on the right. Date: circa 1901

Comic postcard, Man reluctant to milk a cow Date: 20th century

WILSON & RELUCTANT USA WILSON & RELUCTANT USA
The child who wanted to play by himself: President Wilson drags a reluctant USA to join other countries in the Temple of Peace Date: 1919

CHILD IN BATH AND CAT
A child, enjoying its bath, invites a kitten to come and be soaped : the kitten is reluctant Date: circa 1890

RACINE / IPHIGENIE
IPHIGENIE EN AULIDE Clytemnestre is reluctant for her daughter Iphigenie to be sacrificed Date: 1674

Mother and son on a French beach
On a sandy French plage, a mother drags her reluctant son away from his pleasures... Date: 1938

Lady Jane Grey being offered the Crown of England, which she only accepted with great reluctance. 1553

Two men with cat and dog on a cutout Christmas card
Two men with cat and dog on a cutout Christmas and New Year card, encouraging them to have a fight. circa 1890s

With the Force - England expects that every man will do duty
With the Force - England expects that every man will do his duty. A policeman is (somewhat reluctantly) pushed through a doorway by a householder to deal with two armed burglars filling up their bags

Goblins with a pink flamingo on a Christmas card
Goblins dragging a reluctant pink flamingo through the snow on a Christmas card. Perhaps all the shops had sold out of turkeys. Date: circa 1890s

Gladstone Reluctant
Gladstone is unenthusiastic about Watkins project. Date: 1888

Female Type / Model 1918
LE DEBUT DU MODELE - on her first assignment, she is shy about revealing all. Date: 1918

Dogs Dancing Lesson
A girl tries to make her dog dance with her doll, but the animal is reluctant : perhaps it ll be the cats turn next ? Date: 1893

Little boy and baby in garden with ice lolly
A little boy trying to encourage a reluctant baby to lick an ice lolly in a garden on a hot summers day. Date: circa 1960s

Boy feeding baby in a high chair
A little boy feeding a reluctant baby in a high chair. Date: circa 1960s

Fiat CR42 -the Italians were reluctant to abandon the biplane fighter and CR42s took part in the November 1940 raids on England

Boy pulling a goat-cart. Boy pulling a reluctant goat & cart carrying a baby Date: 1900

Hospitality by George Studdy
Hospitality. Because of the arrival of a visitor and her dog, a reluctant Bonzo is dragged out of the room. Date: 1923

Under the Green-wood - kissing under the mistletoe, 1879
A whiskered Captain tries to tempt a seasonal kiss " according to ancient custom" from a young lady under a bouquet of mistletoe. They are spyed on from behind a door by a cheeky boy. 1879

A reluctant musician: the honest truth
An aunt quizzes her unkempt nephew Tom about his prefered hobbies. Date: 1871

WW2 - Comic Postcard - Can it be true? Churchill Quote
" We shall continue steadfast in faith and duty till our task is done." - Winston Churchill, The Prime Minister A little farmers boy is delighted that a reluctant hen has finally produced

British sailor on a mule, pushed by Egyptian man
Push on with it, Mohamed -- a British sailor riding on a reluctant white mule, being pushed by a thin Egyptian man. Date: 1916

Getting into the Swimming Pool

Henryk Travels
Henri duc d Anjou, later Henri III of France, is elected Henryk king of Poland : he is so reluctant, the journey from Paris to Krakow takes him five months. He reigns only 1 year. Date: May 1573

Reluctant Schoolboy
A reluctant schoolboy... Date: circa 1900

Escaping Monkey / 1932
Reluctant to participate in monkey gland rejuvenation treatment, a monkey escapes onto the roof of a hospital in Prague and defies captors for an hour Date: 1932

Little boy reluctantly taking his medicine
A little boy reluctantly taking his medicine -- someone has just poured it from a bottle into a spoon for him. He sticks out his tongue in disgust

Single Men First
A reluctant bachelor gets carted off by the recruitment sergeant and regrets jilting a rather smug looking sweetheart. A comment on the recruitment policy during World War One which ruled that single

Poles Conscripted
Poles are understandably reluctant to help their Russian overlords fight the Japanese : men are forced into railway wagons which will carry them to the front

Between two stools the Bottom goes to the Ground
George Tierney falls between two stools, a tattered Whig Stool and a smart Tory Stool. Amused and standing either side are Fox and Addington

Map of Central Africa showing the likely routes of the Emin
Engraved map showing Central Africa and the predicted routes of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, 1887. Emin Pasha (1840-1892), the German doctor, explorer

Odysseus & Circe
Circe the sorceress, with her handmaiden at her side, urges Odysseus (Ulysses) to have a drink from her table. But since she turned his men into pigs. he is reluctant to do so

Italian Recruit
The King of Italy seeks to rally his subjects to the war but they are reluctant to join the predators... Date: June 1915

Reluctant Guards
Gardes Nationales who refuse to join the Communards are deprived of their weapons

Reluctant Conscript
Communards compel a reluctant citizen to join their force

Reluctant Bather
A girl hesitates on the steps of her bathing machine, dismayed by the appearance of the sea, alarmingly different from the familiarity of the swimming baths !

Goethe / Friederike Brion
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE German writer, as a young man, with his friend Friederike Brion

Louise De LA Fayette
LOUISE MOTTIER DE LA FAYETTE French mistress of Louis XIII and reluctant confidante of Cardinal Richelieu

Tired Boy & Mother, 1867
Victorian mother and son who is reluctant to go to bed and crying

Mozart / Nozze / Liebig 5
(The Marriage of Figaro) Figaro and Susanna are married with the reluctant blessing of the Count

MOTHER & SON, 1867
Victorian mother and son who is reluctant to go to bed and crying

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