Boredom Collection (page 2)

Street with Cocotte, Berlin Street Scene, 1915-1916. Creator: Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig (1880-1938)
Street with Cocotte, Berlin Street Scene, 1915-1916. Private Collection

Potsdamer Platz, 1914. Found in the Collection of Staatliche Museen, Berlin

Sons of harmony - scene Chandois Street, 1801. Members of a club (possibly The Brilliants ) sitting, asleep, beside a table bearing lighted candles, bottle, glasses and a pipe

Too young to be married, 1869. Artist: Thomas Faed
Too young to be married, 1869; showing a man placing his arm round a girl who gazes into the distance whilst a dog sits at her feet

The sleeping congregation, 1736. Artist: William Hogarth
The sleeping congregation, 1736. The scene is a country church, the only member of the congregation awake (besides the speaker) is the clerk who observes the charms of a young girl

The Bench, 1758. Artist: William Hogarth
The Bench, 1758; showing judges sitting in the Court of the Kings Bench, with Sir John Willes, Lord Chief Justice, in centre, and Henry Bathurst on his left, asleep

The laughing audience, 1733. Artist: William Hogarth
The laughing audience, 1733; showing the inside of a theatre and the reactions of different parts of the audience to the play

The Prisoners, 1916. Artist: Louis Raemaekers
The Prisoners, 1916. Plate 33 from The Great War: A Neutrals Indictment by Louis Raemaekers. The Dutch graphic artist Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956)

Fed Up!, 1908. Artist: Lance Thackeray
Fed Up!, 1908. From The Light Side of Egypt, 1908

Rain stopped play, 1968

Compere at a social evening, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, 1964. Artist: Michael Walters
Compere at a social evening, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, 1964. A compere amuses the guests at a social evening in central Doncaster whilst a young woman in the foreground looks particularly

The Stagnation (The modern dance), 1913. Artist: Grigoriev, Boris Dmitryevich (1886-1939)
The Stagnation (The modern dance), 1913. From a private collection

Dr Syntax Preaching, 1820. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
Dr Syntax Preaching, 1820. From The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax, In Search of Consolation, by William Combe. [Ackermann, London, 1820]

Le Rois Amuse, 1910, (1924). Artist: Edmund Joseph Sullivan
Le Rois Amuse, 1910. Illustration to The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881). From The Studio Volume 88 [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1924.]

Urbi et Orbi, 1889. Henry Jeams, Sir Wretched Fibster and John Bull. Sir Wretched Fibster was the name given by Irish supporters of Home Rule to Sir Richard Webster (1842-1915)

Head of a Youth, c1750-1753 (1958). Red and white chalk on grey-blue paper. A print from The Fitzwilliam Museum an Illustrated Survey, Trianon Press, 1958

The Professor and His Pupil, 1882. A print from The Magazine of Art Vol V, Cassell, Peter, Galpin and Company, Limited, 1882

The Bench, 18th century. Artist: Thomas Clerk
The Bench, 18th century. Scene showing judges sitting in the Court of the Kings Bench, with Sir John Willes, Lord Chief Justice, in centre, and Henry Bathurst on his left, asleep

Sleeping Congregation, 18th century. Artist: Thomas Clerk
Sleeping Congregation, 18th century. The scene is a country church, the only member of the congregation awake (besides the speaker) is the clerk who observes the charms of a young girl

Laughing Audience, 18th century. Artist: Thomas Clerk
Laughing Audience, 18th century. Cartoon showing the inside of a theatre and the reactions of different parts of the audience to the play

Edward Underhill the hot gospeller preaching to the giants in the by-ward or Gate Tower, 1840. A print from The Tower of London a Historical Romance, by William Harrison Ainsworth. (London, 1840)

The Historian animating the mind of a young painter, 1784. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
The Historian animating the mind of a young painter, 1784. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century

Street With Red Streetwalker, 1914-1925. Artist: Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig (1880-1938)
Street With Red Streetwalker, 1914-1925. Found in the collection of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collections

Marriage a la Mode: 1, The Marriage Contract, 1743. Artist: William Hogarth
Marriage a la Mode: 1, The Marriage Contract, 1743. The ageing Earl Squander, proud of his family tree but in need of money to maintain his position

Italian emigrants at the Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris, 1896. Artist: Henri Meyer
Italian emigrants at the Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris, 1896. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 29th March 1896

Photograph of mummies, 1860

In the Studio, Anna Ancher, the Artists Wife Painting, late 19th-early 20th century. Artist: Michael Peter Ancher
In the Studio, Anna Ancher, the Artists Wife Painting, late 19th-early 20th century. From a private collection

Federal (northern) prison in Fort Lafayette, New York Harbour, American Civil War, 1865. View inside one of the casemates

The Promised Land, c1880-1908. Artist: Charles Frederic Ulrich
The Promised Land, c1880-1908. Newly arrived immigrants to the United States waiting to be processed

Cell and library at the prison at Fresnes, 1907. France was suffering from gangs of thugs called Apaches at this time, and some thought the French prisons should be less comfortable

British prison life, 1907. Treadmill for hard labour, and punishment with the cat-o-nine-tails. France was suffering from gangs of thugs called the Apaches at this time

Prison discipline, 1884. A Dartmoor prisoner doing solitary punishment at the crank handle. In some prisons this soul-destroying task was put to use such as grinding flour

Prisoners at Clerkenwell House of Correction, London, 1874. Prisoners, in prison uniform, take their turn on the treadmill while the men who have just done their stint wait in silence until it is

Prison discipline, 1888. Prisoners at hard labour on the treadwheel in an English local jail. The prisoner had 15 minutes on, 5 minutes off the wheel, until his time was finished for the day

A Quiet Day in the Diamond Battery - portrait of a Lancaster 68-pounder, Crimean War 1855-1856. Artist: William Simpson
A Quiet Day in the Diamond Battery - portrait of a Lancaster 68-pounder, Crimean War 1853-1856. From Illustrations of the War in the East by William Simpson. (London, 1855-1856)

The Convalescence of Bayard, c1796-1842. Artist: Pierre Henri Revoil
The Convalescence of Bayard, c1796-1842. From the Musee du Louvre, Paris

Boer prisoners in a camp at Bloemfontein, 2nd Boer War, 1899-1902

A Morning Concert, 1865. Artist: Fritz Eltze
A Morning Concert, 1865. A husband nods off to sleep in the front row of a concert. His wife scolds him. A man in the row behind looks to the ceiling, perhaps praying for the concert to end

Long Sermons and Long Sieges are apt to Lull the Senses, February 11, 1783

A Long Story, 1803 (reissued after 1821). 1803 (reissued after 1821)
A Long Story, 1803 (reissued after 1821)

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