Embarrassed Collection

Krishna Steals the Gopis Clothing, 1775-1800. Creator: Unknown
Krishna Steals the Gopis Clothing, 1775-1800. The Hindu god Krishna steals the clothing of the gopis - young women of Brindavan - while they are bathing in the Yamuna River

Un locataire qui doit trois termes, 1847. Creator: Honore Daumier
Un locataire qui doit trois termes, 1847. A tenant who is behind with his rent. (Landlord looks annoyed as embarassed tenant raises hat). From Locataires et proprietaires, no. 20

Entrez donc, monsieur...ne vous gênez pas... 1847. Creator: Honore Daumier
Entrez donc, monsieur...ne vous genez pas... 1847. Hesitant client arrives at an artist's studio where a nude female model is posing: Enter monsieur, don't worry...'

Carotte du Restaurant, 1844. Creator: Honore Daumier
Carotte du Restaurant, 1844. - J'offrirai a monsieur un petit diner distingue et pas cher'. - Tres bien! - Six douzaines marennes

La femme. Je viens de découvrir une mèche... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
La femme. Je viens de decouvrir une meche... 19th century. Conjugal Morals - (The woman.) I just discovered a wick in your vest

Un homme dans ses petits souliers, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Un homme dans ses petits souliers, 19th century. Smartly-dressed man facing scruffier man holding a pair of boots. The French phrase etre dans ses petits souliers translates as feeling small

Le danseur qui se pique d'avoir conservé... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Le danseur qui se pique d'avoir conserve... 19th century. [Male dancer in a tutu]. The dancer who regrets having maintained the wonderful traditions of Vestris

'A Supper Extra, 1890. Creator: Unknown
'A Supper Extra, 1890. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 42. July to December, 1890

'A Canoeing Incident at the Seaside, 1891. Creator: G Durand
'A Canoeing Incident at the Seaside, 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44. July to December, 1891

Portrait of a young girl. Creator: Ecole Francaise
Portrait of a young girl

Where You Should Not Dine on Christmas Day - drawn by Leech, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Where You Should Not Dine on Christmas Day - drawn by Leech, 1850. Illustration to "Cold out of Doors, and Cold In-Doors, or, Tom Smithers's Christmas Day"....in walked Tom

Illustration to "Fred Holdsworth; or, Love and Pride", by Thomas Miller, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Illustration to "Fred Holdsworth; or, Love and Pride", by Thomas Miller, 1850. There was a laugh round the table, which made Fred blush up to the ears ; while his aunt was delighted

"Honeywood introducing the Bailiffs to Miss Richland as his friends", by W. P. Frith, R.A... 1862
"Honeywood introducing the Bailiffs to Miss Richland as his friends", by W. P. Frith, R.A. in the Sheepshanks Collection, Kensington Museum, 1862. Engraving of a painting

Spys Taken at Greenwich, 1798. Mother Windsor with four of her courtesans orders her girls to arrest Shute Barrington, the Bishop of Durham and the Duke of Queensberry

Alfred in the Neat-Herds Cottage, 1776. Artist: I Hall
Alfred in the Neat-Herds Cottage, 1776. King Alfred, in disguise, is rebuked by the Neat Herds Wife, for letting the cakes burn. Alfred the Great (849-899), Anglo-Saxon king of Wessex from 871

Why Should I Blush (valentine), c. 1840. Creator: George Kershaw
Why Should I Blush (valentine), c. 1840

Woman Taken Unawares, late 1880s / early 1890s. Creator: Edgar Degas
Woman Taken Unawares, late 1880s/early 1890s

A Peep at St. Peter or The Poet in a Pickle, July 23, 1789. Creator: Unknown
A Peep at St. Peter or The Poet in a Pickle, July 23, 1789

The Go-Between or Barrow Man Embarrass d, May 15, 1786. Creator: Unknown
The Go-Between or Barrow Man Embarrass d, May 15, 1786

The Clever Lady Knight (Die schlaue Ritterin), 1911. Creator: Moritz Jung
The Clever Lady Knight (Die schlaue Ritterin), 1911

Is This Your Louse?, 1787. 1787. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
Is This Your Louse?, 1787

Fancy, July 20, 1801. July 20, 1801. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
Fancy, July 20, 1801

Bashful Lovers, March 15, 1798. March 15, 1798. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
Bashful Lovers, March 15, 1798

Schubert fled from the room, (1907). Creator: Unknown
Schubert fled from the room, (1907). In 1822, the young Schubert meets the celebrated composer Beethoven:a courteous but somewhat formal welcome was accorded them

The Governess arrives at the Merchants House, 1866, (1965). Creator: Vasily Perov
The Governess arrives at the Merchants House, 1866, (1965). A young woman, her head bowed, stands before her new employer, a portly businessman in a velvet robe

An Aristocrat Takes Breakfast, or Silk on His Stomach and Nothing Inside, 1849-1850, (1965). A young man in a silk dressing gown hurries to cover a meagre slice of bread with a book

Ladies buy your leaf!, c1822. A close-up view of the lower part of the Achilles statue in Hyde Park. Women stand below holding garments to drape over the fig leaf

Making decent!! A hint to the society for the suppression of vice... 1822. Artist
Making decent!! A hint to the society for the suppression of vice. This print commemorative of Anglo-French brass and true British chastity... 1822

The ladys disaster, 1747. Artist: John June
The ladys disaster, 1747; the hoop of a womans skirt has caught on a hook high up in a wall, and a small sweep boy lies on the ground looking under it while the crowed looks on in amusement

Ulysses and Nausicaa, c1772-1845. Artist: Robert Smirke
Ulysses and Nausicaa, c1772-1845. Ulysses (or Odysseus) appearing to Nausicaa after his shipwreck. Nausicaa had been washing clothes in the river with her maids, who are shown hiding behind a tree

Sweethearts, 1892. Artist: Walter Dendy Sadler
Sweethearts, 1892.; interior view showing a young couple talking to an older woman seated in a chair

1935 Frazer-Nash TT replica being pulled out of a ford during a motoring trial, 1936
Frazer-Nash TT Replica 1935 1496 cc. Vehicle Reg. No. BUV1 Later re-registered CKK238. Event Entry No: 1 Chassis No. 2145.. Place: Unidentified Trial. Date: 1936

King Alfred burning the cakes, (c1900). Artist: Trelleek
King Alfred burning the cakes, c1900. Legend has it that Alfred (849-899), offered shelter from the Danes by a woman at Athelney in the Somerset marshes

Mrs. Tibbs and Mr. Evenson, c1900. Artist: George Cruikshank
Mrs. Tibbs and Mr. Evenson, c1900. An illustration for Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens. From Hard Times and Sketches by Boz, Volume XI, by Charles Dickens. [Blackwood, Le Bas & Co. London, c1900]

Courtship in a Cowshed, c18th century. Artist: Julius Caesar Ibbetson
Courtship in a Cowshed, c18th century. From The Connoisseur Volume XCI, edited by F. Gordon Roe. [The Connoisseur Ltd, London, 1933]

The embarrassment of the hoods, 1882-1884. Artist: J Rocault
The embarrassment of the hoods, 1882-1884. A print from La France et les Francais a Travers les Siecles, Volume IV, F Roy editor, A Challamel, Saint-Antoine, 1882-1884

Cartoon on a riding theme, 19th century. Just as he had with ineffable grace lifted his hat to greet the ladies, the horse went on his knees, and deposited the beau in a puddle at their feet

The Ladies Disaster, 1771. Artist: Caldwell
The Ladies Disaster, 1771. A woman loses her wig in a high wind. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century

Exhibition Stare Case, 1811. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
Exhibition Stare Case, 1811. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

My Hunt, 1901. Illustration from The Process Year Book, A Review of the Illustrated Arts. published by AW Penrose & Co, (London, 1901)

King Alfred burning the cakes, 878 (1864). Legend has it that Alfred (849-899), offered shelter from the Danes by a woman at Athelney in the Somerset marshes

The Sleepwalker (Somnambulist) making discoveries her husband would rather she did not know

Launce and his Dog, 1885. Artist: Joseph Swain
Launce and his Dog, 1885. The little dog is Lord Randolph Churchill, the Conservative head of a group known as the Fourth Party

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