Sad Collection (page 3)

Sad End of a German Spy Behind the British Line, WW1
The Sad End of a German Spy Behind the British Line. He foolishly endeavoured to obtain information from our sign boards!

WW1 street shrine, London, 1917
A front cover of The Illustrated London News, showing a woman and two small children leaving a floral tribute at a London street shrine, 1917. Date: January 1917

SAD EYES
Head and shoulders portrait of a dark haired woman who appears to be topless. Her large dark eyes look sad. Date: late 1960s

PSYCHE LOOKS AT EROS
Psyche, visited by Eros after sundown, seeking to know what he looks like, spills hot oil from her lamp onto him, waking him, with sad consequences, though all ends happily enough

Comtesse de Segur, French writer
Comtesse de Segur, nee Sophie Rostopchine, French writer, born in Russia, best known for Les Malheurs de Sophie, first published 1859. Date: 1799 - 1874

Greeting card
Jog on jog on the foot-pathway and merrily hent the style-a! A merry heart goes all the day, your sad tires in a mile-a! (Shakespeare, A Winters Tale). Artist: Ethel Larcombe. Date: circa 1910

View of the monument to the Russian writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1852) in Moscow, Russia. It was erected in 1909 on Prechistensky Boulevard

Cinderella, a pantomime, Royal Artillery Theatre, Woolwich, SE London. 1905

Lady in red coat lays bouquet on a grave, Kirkcudbright
On a cold, snowy winter day, a lady in red coat lays a bouquet of flowers on a grave in Kirkcudbright graveyard, Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland. Date: 2010

slum child with dog
A dirty, barefoot boy eats a biscuit while standing on the doorstep of his slum home with a dog. Brinksway, Stockport Cheshire Date: circa 1970

Slum child eating
A small, dirty, barefoot boy on the doorstep of his slum home in Brinksway, Stockport Cheshire Date: circa 1970

Slum child
A small fair-haired dirty boy wipes away tears with his thumb as he looks at the camera. Brinksway, Stockport condemned housing. North of England slums Date: circa 1970

Some British Workmen - A Brass Finisher - play on words as this punter has lost ( finished with ) all his brass. Perhaps the consumption of the two bottle of champagne (pictured discarded behind him)

Miss Ellaline Terriss as Cinderella
Miss Ellaline Terriss (1872-1971) - popular English actress and singer, as Cinderella - promotional card for Ivelcon Date: circa 1909

Two clowns, happy and sad. Date: circa 1900

Branwen, Daughter of Llyr, the subject of a legend from medieval Welsh literature, the Mabinogi. Branwen is married off to a cruel Irish king; she tames a starling

Olivia, by Edmund Blair Leighton (from Twelfth Night). 1888

Louise Max-Ehrler (1850-1920). Italian painter. Telegram, 1894. Detail. National Gallery. Prague. Czech Republic

Portrait of an old man with beard and walking stick. Date: circa 1960s

Sad irons, curling and goffering irons
A selection of home appliances, as featured in a catalogue. A sad iron and stand, a polishing iron, a spirit iron, a hat iron for ironing brims and a Dalli box iron are pictured

Despairing man with his head in his hands
" The Mind and visage oft are things apart; a smiling face oft masks a breaking heart." - character study by Phil May of a man in the deepest throes of despair. Date: circa 1890s

The Story of Rumpelstiltskin. From Playhour (1959)

Musicians with instruments on a Christmas and New Year card
Musicians with instruments on a Christmas card, with a quotation from The Merchant of Venice: I am never merry when I hear sweet music. Date: circa 1890s

Comic postcard, Communication problems - girl and boy Date: 20th century

Chef with pudding on a Christmas card
Chef in a kitchen with a pudding on a Christmas card -- Out of the frying pan into the fire. Date: circa 1890s

Two men playing chess, watched by a boxer dog
Unusual Friends - two men playing chess, watched by a boxer dog. 1950s

Pierre Antoine Berryer (1790-1868). Colored engraving
Pierre Antoine Berryer (1790-1868). French lawyer and speaker. Engraving of Universal Gallery, 1868. Colored

James Dean / Ufa Postcard
JAMES DEAN American film actor Date: 1931 - 1955

Illustration, The King of the Golden Mountain -- The Son made a circle, and his Father and he took their places within it, and the little black Mannikin appeared. Date: 1909

Studio portrait, little boy crying
Studio portrait of a little boy crying, with tears running down his cheeks. Date: circa 1960s

Studio portrait, little child crying
Studio portrait of a little child crying. Date: circa 1960s

Elderly Bedouin woman, Holy Land. Date: 1920s

Two German boy scouts on an outdoor activity

The Sad Experiences of Big and Little Willie. - WWI
A bound copy with gold-leaf edges of The Sad Experiences of Big and Little Willie during the first 6 months of the Great War as portrayed by W. K. Haselden in the Daily Mirror

Bonzo sells a pup by George Studdy
Bonzo sells a pup -- Bonzo and five Bonzolines sit in a basket, while one pup sits separately with a sold notice round his neck, ready to travel on the GWR to The Kennels, Lone Bridge, Dartmoor

Disused tram, Blackpool St Annes & Lytham Tramways
A disused tram of the Blackpool St Annes & Lytham Tramways, damaged and rusting in the open air. It still carries advertising for Hovis, Lifebuoy Soap, Hudsons Super Soap

Black Humour - It could be worse, you could be blind and wet
Black Humour - It could be worse, you could be a blind beggar singing for your supper/lodging in the rain... Date: circa 1904

Last pair of horses used by London Fire Brigade
An historic and sad occasion for the London Fire Brigade in November 1921, when the Brigade said farewell to the last pair of horses (together with their horse-drawn fire engine)

Portuguese soldiers captured on the Western Front, WW1
Portuguese soldiers who have been captured on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1916-1918

John Le Carre (David Cornwell)
John le Carr (pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell, b 1931), English author of spy novels, many of which have been adapted for television and film. He worked for MI5 and MI6 in the 1950s and 1960s

German Boy 1930S
A sad boy and his dog, Oberammergau, Bavaria, Germany

Little Folks Misfitz Playing Cards - Cinderella. early 20th century

A Thrilling Story -- mother and two children
A Thrilling Story -- a mother reads from a book to her two children, who don t look very thrilled. late 19th century

Song, The Maids Petition
Sheet music for a song entitled The Maids Petition. 18th century

Kitten and puppy looking subdued
Unusual Friends - kitten and puppy looking rather subdued. 1950s

An African-American boy sat sadly by a lake Date: circa 1880s

The Bird of Paradise by Richard Walton Tully. First produced in England Lyric Theatre on the 11th September 1919. The setting is Hawaii

The Angel of His Dreams by George A Degray, first produced Castleford, April 1909, then The Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London, October 1910

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