Riddle Collection

The Last Stand of the Imperial Guards at Waterloo. General Hill calling on upon the Enemy to Surrender.Print by Riddle and Goughman after the painting by Robert Hillingford

Handmade Christmas and New Year card with Sphinx
Handmade Christmas and New Year card -- the riddle of the Sphinx is solved at last! It has been waiting to wish you a Happy Xmas and New Year. Date: circa 1890s

Palmistry. Planetary and zodiacal diagram of the left hand. Engraving

Samson And The Lion
This sculpture forms a depiction of part of Samson's Riddle, chapter 14 of the Book of Judges. Samson encounters a Philistine lady in the city of Timnah, whom he decides to marry

Charing Cross Station, Underground
This painting provides a view looking down upon the entrance to Charing Cross Underground Station, opened originally in 1864 by South Eastern Railway

The West Wind
A landscape painting of some green hills with trees on the surface, the sea can be seen in the far distance, under a sky almost entirely made up of white clouds. Date: circa 1917

Shoreline Rocks
A seascape painting, of some large shoreline rocks, jutting out of the water. Date: circa 1917

Smokestacks
This painting looks down the line of a railroad, which trails off to some industrial buildings and factories with smokestacks. Date: circa 1916

City View
This painting shows a view of an industrial city with smokestacks, looking across a wide river with boats travelling across, through the branches of some foreground trees. Date: circa 1916

Shipbuilding, Rye
This painting shows the process of shipbuilding, involving a stage in which the boats are sat in some frames constructed to keep them in place while work is undertaken

The Empire, Leicester Square
This artwork shows The Empire, a variety theatre house in Leicester Square, London. The building was originally built in 1884 for theatre until 1927

Moonlight
A painting of a river bridge lit by the moonlight, with a haunting view of a church placed centrally in the background. Date: circa 1915

Power Station, Greenwich
A painting which shows a misty view of a power station by the river Thames at Greenwich, southeast London, which opened in 1902. A boat if travelling nearby. Date: circa 1915

A Farm In The Mountains
A landscape oil painting of some distant countryside farmhouses, well covered by tall trees and a looming rocky mountain behind. Date: circa 1918

White Star Line, RMS Titanic - five book covers. Building the Titanic, an illustrated history of the Olympic class ships, Titanic Calling, A Titanic Myth, and The Riddle of the Titanic

Poster type card showing a Church Lads Member at camp
The card has a message from Leonard, who is at camp training for war, to his mother complaining that he had to leave his rifle behind in the Church room

Photo of Baroness von Hutten in the Tatler
Black and white full page photograph of Baroness von Hutten in the Tatler of 22nd December 1909. Born Bettina Riddle in Erie, Pennsylvania, she married Friedrich Karl August

Queen Mother at the Royal Cornwall Show, Wadebridge, standing with the Show Secretary Albert Riddle, and a prize bull wearing three rosettes. Date: circa 1982

HM Queen Mother at the Royal Cornwall Show, Wadebridge. She is talking to Show Secretary Albert Riddle whilst a prize Hereford bull looks on. circa 1982

Riddle rhyme. Old Mother Twitchet had but one eye? Answer: Needle & cotton. Date: circa 1917

Daddy, what did You do in the Great War? British Military Recruitment Poster, WW1
Recruitment poster, Daddy, what did You do in the Great War? Colour lithograph, after Savile Lumley, published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, Poster No 79

Diagram, The Riddle of the Ranks, WW1
Diagram, The Riddle of the Ranks, showing how a message can be deciphered during the First World War. Date: 1914

Ridiculous question from Grandfather to Grandson
" Now, Tommy; you know that Christopher Columbus made three voyages; tell me, on which one did he die?" !!! Date: 1895

Armstrong Whitworth AW650 Argosy Series 100 G-APRN
Armstrong Whitworth AW650 Argosy Series 100, G-APRN, in the markings of Riddle Airlines although it was delivered to BEA. The aircraft is taking off en route to the Paris Air Show

Fortune teller. Engraving. FRANCE. Paris. Mus饠;

GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). Proverbs
" GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). Proverbs. Female riddle. 1815-1824. Plate 1 of " Proverbs". Romanticism. Engraving. SPAIN. Madrid. Lạ ro Galdiano Foundation."

Book of the Good and Bad luck (15th c. )
Book of the Good and Bad luck (15th c.)

Riddle of fear. Plate 2 of Proverbs
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). Riddle of fear. Plate 2 of Proverbs, etching, aquatint and drypoint. Engraving

Through the Looking Glass by Charles Folkard. The Fish Riddle. Alice with the Red Queen and the White Queen 1921

Cryptic Postcard - Three Abbots empty their bowels
Musings from the papal throne...! A postcard with a caption calculation (equation) which needs to be read phonetically (in French)

Riddle of the Sphinx
An Egyptologist ponders the Riddle of the Sphinx... Date: 1896

Napoleon and Sphinx
Napoleon takes time off from campaigning in Egypt to ponder the Riddle of the Sphinx

Oedipus and Sphinx
Oedipus, subsequently king of Thebes, successfully solves the riddle of the Sphinx and then rids the country of the monster

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