Stupid Collection

Surgery Cures Stupidity
SATIRE:RESULTS OF ETHER - surgery as a cure-all: young mans stupidity cured by replacing straw head- stuffing with a brain!

Tarot Card Fool 17C
TAROT LE FOU (The Fool)

Cartoon, The Dropped Pilot, WW1
Cartoon, The Dropped Pilot, twenty-four years after Tenniel. In Tenniels Dropping the Pilot cartoon of 1890 Kaiser Wilhelm II watches as Bismarck disembarks from the ship (of state)

Fashionable couple disturbed by stupid, stone-cold
Fashionable couple disturbed at home in the morning by stupid, stone-cold idle relatives. Miseries of the country. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Calligraphic title page with vignette of the Skeleton of Death tipping over a misers chair as two relatives grab bags of money from his strong box

Cartoon, The Real Cap of Liberty. British Lion: What can THAT cap promise, that my CROWN doesnt perform? Eh, Stoopid? Date: December 1871

A Pull to Leg by George Studdy
Bonzo, the comic canine creation of George Studdy, nearly strangled himself when he winds his lead around his owners legs in an effort to pursue a fleeing cat

Jimmy Wild by George Studdy
A rather stupid Bonzo, the comic canine creation of George Studdy is distracted from stealing a chop by his reflection in a silver, domed platter cover

Cartoon, Things that matter, WW1
Cartoon, Things that matter -- Brain. Crown Prince: It doesn t matter what Papa or Michaelis says. After all, we are the real brain(s) of the Empire

Folklore / Trolls
Askeladen fools the stupid troll

The Student by H. M. Bateman
A particularly studious student, so engrossed in the book he is reading, accidentally strides off the edge of a cliff. Date: 1925

French Theatre -- Science et Anerye
Science et Anerye (Science and Stupidity), a morality play. Showing an allegorical female figure representing Stupidity in a black cloak with a donkeys head, legs and tail attached to her

Cartoon, Brilliant second thoughts, WW1
Cartoon, Brilliant second thoughts. Emperor Franz Josef of Austria comments: I m beginning to think that Bulow only went to see the Italians to get them to declare war on me. Date: 1915

Cartoon, Men from The Moon, WW1
Cartoon, Men from The Moon, commenting on three neutral powers in the early weeks of the First World War (Holland, America and Italy), and how they are regarded by the German government

Jean Ant. Rossignol
JEAN ANTOINE ROSSIGNOL French jeweler turned revolutionary, brave but stupid, useless as a soldier so turned to plotting, unsuccessful, condemned and died in exile in Madagascar. Date: 1759 - 1802

WW1 - Soldier gives away all souvenir buttons from uniform
WW1 - A slightly daft-looking young Soldier has to resort to a large safety pin, as he has given away all the souvenir buttons from his uniform to family and female admirers... Date: circa 1915

A French Gentleman enquires after the health of an idiot
A smart French Gentleman enquires after the health of an obvious idiot. " Vat as been ze mattare? Zey tell me you af not ad ze good ealths

The Mayor of Middle Wallop not appreciating Shakespeare
The sublime ignorance of the Mayor of Middle Wallop. The Mayor of Middle Wallop (who is interested in the decoration of the new theatre in M.W.) - " Oos that Gentleman you re painting

Dunderpate and his schoolmaster. The teacher says hes never known such a lazy, stupid fellow, and believes he hasn t enough sense to go in when it rains. Date: 1938

Anti-German cartoon, German boar and French rabbits, WW1
An anti-German cartoon by a French satirical cartoonist, showing some French rabbits making fun of a large German boar during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Mary Lawson as a dunce
An amusing study of Mary Lawson posed as a most alluring little dunce. Pictured here in the Sketch in 1931, she was at the time playing Professor Hinzelmanns beautiful daughter

Lear / Nonsense / Melrose
There was an Old Man of Melrose, who walked on the tips of his toes; But they said, It ain t pleasant, to see you at present, you stupid Old Man of Melrose

Stupid Humans
Animals laugh at humans moving house with all their possessions, and wonder why we don t live as simply as they do!

Battle of Magenta - 3
The Austrians lose 6000 men trying to hold on to Magenta, the Piedmontese and French lose 4400 taking it : this dog, mourning a French victim, considers it all stupid

Riquet a LA Houpe
(Riquet with the tuft) The beautiful but stupid princess is offered intelligence if she weds ugly king Riquet : not only does she become clever but he becomes handsome

Heavenly Taxes
CHINA Chinese bonzes burn paper money as heavenly taxes, trusting that the gods are so stupid, they won t notice the difference

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