Urchins Gallery

Manneken Pis Postcard Album - A Duel

A duel - three street urchins help their friend to mimic the statue! Manneken Pis (Dutch for little pee man'), also known in French as the petit Julien, is a very famous Brussels landmark. It is a small bronze fountain sculpture depicting a naked little boy urinating into the fountain's basin. This fold-out postcard album contains humourous sketches relating to the statue and individuals reactions on viewing it!

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Fossil Mososaurus skull and fish palates

Fossil skull of an extinct Mososaurus found at Maastricht 1, and palates of extinct fish 2-5. Mascella del Mososauro trovata a Maestricht, Palati di differenti specie di pesci ignoti. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieu's Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy, 1837. Illustration engraved by Carini, drawn by Jean Gabriel Pretre and directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by Batelli e Figli. Turpin (1775-1840) is considered one of the greatest French botanical illustrators of the 19th century

© Florilegius

Humorous British Christmas card

Humorous British Christmas card - a rather stern-faced guardsman is about to get a shock as a bunch of n'er-do-well street urchins are following him with a lot of bangers and rockets...!! Date: circa 1890s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Boys, British, Bunch, Buzby, Card, Cheek, Cheekiness, Cheeky, Christmas, Comedy, Comic, Copying, Fun, Funny, Gang, Group, Guardsman, Hat, Humorous, Humour, Ner Do Well, Shock, Stern Faced, Street, Urchins