Sad Collection (page 7)

Forager the puppy waiting for more food
Waiting for Something to Turn Up -- Forager the puppy, having been kicked out of the pantry by the cook, waits for more food. Date: 1912

Hungry Peter as a piglet looking for food
The Outcast -- Hungry Peter as a piglet wanders away from the farm looking for more substantial food. Date: 1912

Cartoons, What He Will Look Like, WW1
Cartoons, At the End of " The Day", What He Will Look Like. Showing Kaiser Wilhelm II during the First World War, His Own Version (left) and That of the Allies (right). Date: September 1914

Poor Teddy! by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl sits chatting with her doll, ignoring her teddy bear. Date: 1942

Soldier and girlfriend, WW1
A soldier and his girlfriend posing for their photo in front of a tree, around the time of the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Trade catalogue for irons 1911
Trade catalogue for Harrords department store, showing a selection of irons. Date: 1911

William Thom, Poet
WILLIAM THOM Scottish weaver and poet, best-known for his poem The mitherless bairn which I haven t read because it is probably rather sad. Date: 1799 - 1848

Cruel Model
Head and shoulders portrait of a dark haired woman who appears to be topless. Date: late 1960s

Wilhelm Hauff
WILHELM HAUFF German writer who, sad to say, died in his 20s. Date: 1802 - 1827

Street Scene - Novi Sad - Serbia Date: circa 1910s

A refugee in Thessaloniki - sitting in the Vardar District
A refugee in Thessaloniki, Greece - sitting in the Vardar District - WW1 era. Date: circa 1910s

Memories - WW1 Blinded soldier - RNIB postcard
Memories - WW1 Blinded soldier looking back on his past life and the activities he is unable to continue to pursue due to his lost sight - Fund-raising postcard for the Home Teaching Branch of

Comic Postcard - Woman bemoans lack of male interest
Comic Postcard - Woman bemoans and mourns the loss of 500 men in a (fictional) disaster, not that it appears she is (unfortunately) a magnet for male interest! Date: circa 1910

Comic Postcard - Married to a Policeman on Night Duty
Comic Postcard - " Might as well be single again if you re married to a policeman whos always on night duty!" Date: 1914

The Loneliness of Penury - Pierrot upset having gone bust
The Loneliness of Penury - Pierrot upset and woeful having gone bust and been abandoned by society Date: 1911

Mourning at the grave of his lost love Thora - " Speak from your heaven to me; Child of my dream, love of my life..." Date: circa 1905

A little girl loses her beau to a prettier model
The Jilt. A little girl loses her beau to a prettier model. She is dreadful upset and even her dolly is sharing her pain and loss! Even her puppy seems to be off! Date: circa 1890s

Character study by Phil May of an old man in a raincoat, seemingly down on his luck somewhat. Date: circa 1890s

Alone - portrait of an elderly widow by Phil May
Alone - portrait of an elderly widow with a Pathetic Grandeur lifting the scene above the commonplace. Date: 1893

Spinster Street Singer sings her tale of woe
Spinster Street Singer and her tale of woe, sung in tremulous tones !! Street Singer (in tremulous tones) - " An oi tell them they need not come wooin ter me." Date: 1900

Old Man with pair of wooden legs advertising corn plasters
Very black humour - An Old Man with a pair of prosthetic false legs advertising corn plasters! Date: 1895

Ragged Street singers - looking decidedly worse for wear
In the Bars and Streets. Cartoon drawing by Phil May depicting a pair of ragged street singers singing about fair and stormy weather - the perfect illustrative template for their undoubtedly

Hard Luck Sir - Young lad lets in a goal
" Hard Luck Sir" - Young lad lets in a goal... Date: 1906

Girl looks longingly at her unobtainable hearts desire
A girl looks longingly and very sadly at her unobtainable hearts desire, sadly buried in a prickly thistle. Date: 1906

Twins in a Christmas basket
" A Merry Christmas" Twins in a Christmas basket - one of whom is not enjoying the experience... Date: 1906

Baby with German Measles - WWI connection
Screaming baby with German Measles - both a reference to this childhood ailment and a reaction to the state of European relations during World War One! Date: circa 1915

Scruffy young miserable Scottish golfing caddy bemoans his lot... " They call me " Breeks" But my Maiden names McIntosh!" Date: 1907

Mrs Clara D Orville Gorham (1833-1920)
Portrait of Clara D Orville Gorham. Painting, oil on canvas, by Hely Augustus Morton Smith (1862-1941), c. 1905. Original at the Natural History Museum, London

VELASCO, Jos頍ar�(1840-1912). The Sabine Tree
VELASCO, Jos頍 aric (1840-1912). The Sabine Tree of Popotla (Tree of the Sad Night). 1891. Romanticism. Oil on canvas

United Kingdom (19th c. ). Society. An unemployed
United Kingdom (19th c.). Society. An unemployed coming back home

Starving children feeding birds. Published in

Sad forebodings of what is to come
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). Sad forebodings of what is to come. Plate 1 of The Disasters of War

A sad case. Illustration shows Puck massaging the scalp of a deranged-looking Richard Olney who is sitting on a bench in a padded cell in the Hopeless ward for incurables

Mathews & Bulger presenting rag time opera, By the sad sea waves. Date c1898

A printers portrait gallery, 1885
Amusing portraits created from type faces, after an American magazine. The man who does not advertise is contrasted with the man who does advertise. 1885

A boy and his dog in trouble for chasing chickens. The caption reads: " We Aven t Done Nuffin!" Date: 1928- 1929

Portrait of a woman with a baby on her lap
Watercolour portrait of a woman sitting in a chair with a baby on her lap, by Henrietta Grace Baden Powell (nee Smyth, 1824-1914), mother of Robert. circa 1840s

Metropolitan Police officer speaking to a little boy
A Metropolitan Police officer (WPC) speaking kindly to a little boy who looks as if he might have lost his way -- or perhaps someone has forgotten to pick him up from school. Date: circa 1950s

The Waning Moon I m going down-hill fast, My bones are cold, its raining, My money spent, my chances past, I m waning, waning, waning! Date: circa 1910s

Metropolitan Police officer and lost boy
A Metropolitan Police officer holding a little boy lost. Date: circa 1930s

Forced Loans
To pay for the defence of the country, citizens are required to make forced loans : sad to say, these loans will never be repaid... Date: 1795

Jack Sparrow perched on step, moth flutters past
Jack Sparrow perches on a step, dejected at not finding any food for his family. A moth flutters past. Date: 1937

First Sorrow
The first sorrow - A child with a dead bird 1833

Unhappy Family
The unhappy family. 1833

Tram Graveyard
The sad sight of a Special London Transport trams in their graveyard (having been replaced by buses), Charlton, south east London. Date: 1950s

Jealous Boy
A jealous little boy, crying at nursery because his favourite girl is sitting in a cardboard box with his best friend... wait till he grows up! Date: 1960s

British prisoners from Kut returning to London, WW1
British prisoners captured after the Siege of Kut (1916), seen here on their return to London via Cannon Street Station. They are NCOs and other men, officers having returned a few days earlier

Policeman dragging away a criminal at Christmas
A Policeman dragging away a criminal at Christmas toward the Black Maria. His woebegone expresion is the perfect accompaniment to the caption

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