Thumbs Gallery
Available as Framed Prints, Photos, Wall Art and Gift Items
Choose from 31 pictures in our Thumbs collection for your Wall Art or Photo Gift. Popular choices include Framed Prints, Canvas Prints, Posters and Jigsaw Puzzles. All professionally made for quick delivery.
Featured Print
Stunt woman cannonball loses her knickers
Liza Knight, an 18-year-old stunt performer from Leicester, felt quite a draught after being shot from a cannon during a rehearsal. A jagged piece of metal in the barrel of the giant gun snagged her knickers and tracksuit bottoms, ripping them both to shreds. Seen here giving the thumbs up before the stunt. Date: 1973
© Mary Evans Picture Library/DAVID LEWIS HODGSON
Featured Print
Thumbs down
Thumbs down!. Illustration shows a skeleton labeled Death as a gladiator standing over a Sick Person; before giving the death stroke, the skeleton looks to the spectators seated in a section identified as Anti-Vivisectionists, who, holding their pets close, give the thumbs down signal. The emblem on their banner shows a hand about to snuff the flame on a lamp labeled Progress. Date 1911 June 7. Thumbs down!. Illustration shows a skeleton labeled Death as a gladiator standing over a Sick Person; before giving the death stroke, the skeleton looks to the spectators seated in a section identified as Anti-Vivisectionists, who, holding their pets close, give the thumbs down signal. The emblem on their banner shows a hand about to snuff the flame on a lamp labeled Progress. Date 1911 June 7. Date:
© Mary Evans / Library of Congress
