Ridiculed Collection

Shame Flute - German punishment for being a poor musician
A Shame Flute ( Schand Flote ) - German punishment for being a poor musician - you had to face the public wearing (around the neck) a heavy iron flute

Angelique Paulet
ANGELIQUE PAULET French saloniste, known as Parthenie - one of the precieuses ridiculed by Moliere. Date: 1592 - 1651

James Elphinston
JAMES ELPHINSTON teacher, author and translator whose version of Martials epigrams was sadly ridiculed. Date: 1721 - 1809

A scarecrow, 1793
A scarecrow of 1793 - a woman wearing a fashionable, but ridiculed, high-waisted gown (with watch fob) which makes it appear that her legs begin under her bosom

Elizabeth Spence - 2
ELIZABETH ISABELLA SPENCE writer of novels and travel books such as the customs of Scotland (which was ridiculed by critics, unfortunately) Date: 1768 - 1832

Elizabeth Spence - 1
ELIZABETH ISABELLA SPENCE writer of novels and travel books such as the customs of Scotland (which was ridiculed by critics, unfortunately) Date: 1768 - 1832

Thomas Shadwell - 1
THOMAS SHADWELL Playwright, including The Lancashire witches : poet laureate, ridiculed by Dryden. Date: 1642 - 1692

Thomas Shadwell - 2
THOMAS SHADWELL Playwright, including The Lancashire witches : poet laureate, ridiculed by Dryden. Date: 1642 - 1692

German Navy lampooned - World War One
Propaganda postcard from the First World War lampooning the German Naval capability as a rusting weed-encasted hulk, unable to repond to the effective and nimble Allied naval fleet

The harem skirt, the scare m skirt, the harum-scarum skirt
A satirical look at womens fashion in 1911. Date: January 1911

Victoria / Cocorico / Advert
An advertisement banned by the Paris police because it ridiculed Queen Victoria; nevertheless it was reproduced as an advertisement for Dr Trabants little pills

Tall Soldier Ridiculed
Quarter-Master Sergeant scares a tall young private with the cutting line " What 15 boots? Why, when they shoots you they ll have to push you over"

Ethiopian Men Ridiculed
Ethiopian men who seek to evade military service are dressed as women and paraded to public ridicule

Masons Ridiculed
English masons mocked by the Order of Gormogons, a society for ridiculing freemasonry which claimed to have been founded by the Emperor of China

Theatrical Ranter
The Theatrical Ranter: a Georgian thespian acts his stockings off wearing armour, sword & plumed helmet. The sort of acting style ridiculed in Blackadder III

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