Ruffian Collection

Cartoon, Next Weeks Bashers, W E Gladstone
Cartoon, Next Weeks Bashers -- Waiting for the Old Man. Showing William Ewart Gladstone, Liberal Prime Minister, with ruffian MPs waiting for him round a corner. 1884

The Ruffian widower named Trampagos (El Rufian viudo llamado
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616). Spanish writer. Short farce The Ruffian widower named Trampagos (El Rufian viudo llamado Trampagos). Colored engraving. 1868. Private collection

El Rufian viudo llamado Trampagos. Short farce by Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616). Spanish writer. Short farce The Ruffian widower named Trampagos (El Rufian viudo llamado Trampagos). Engraving. 1868. Private collection

Body confidence of a diminutive ruffian
" Shure, if oi was as big a ye-self oid woipe the flure wid yez, little as oi am!" Date: 1900

Streetwise young scamp talks back at an admonishing woman who is criticising him for smoking." Do you know its very wrong for little boys to smoke tobacco

Billiards Illustrated - Trying for the pocket - A youthful pickpocket has a rummage through an elderly gentlemans trouser pocket whist he browses some titles on a bookstall. Date: circa 1903

A Regency Christmas by Ethel Parkinson
A prim young lady wearing a bonnet and holding a fur muff (as well as a bunch of holly and an umbrella) looks behind her in alarm at a young ruffian who is about to aim a snowball in her direction

Pacifist Arrested 1909
An anti-militarist agitator (depicted by this rightwing journal as a scruffy ruffian) is arrested by the police, to the approval of patriotic bystanders

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