Humiliation Collection (page 5)

Fall of the British garrison at Jamestown, South Africa, Boer War, 1901. British soldiers, some of them wounded, marching into imprisonment after surrendering to the Boers

Scene from Shakespeares The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1856-1858. William Shakespeares comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor was first performed in 1597 or 1600

Christ mocked and the Crown of Thorns placed on his head. Artist: Gustave Dore
Christ mocked and the Crown of Thorns placed on his head. From Gustave Dores illustrated Bible, 1866

Sons of Freedom, Hear My Story, 1834. A man, looking as if he has been in a drunken brawl, serving his sentence in the village stocks

A pillory, 1805. Artist: William Henry Pyne
A pillory, 1805. Four men being punished in the pillory, being pelted with rubbish and jeered at by a crowd. By this date among crimes punishable by pillory were embezzlement of state property

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

Disgracing of Albert Dreyfus, 1895. Alfred Dreyfus (c1859-1935), French army officer of Jewish extraction, wrongly accused of passing secret documents to the Germans

Wilhelm I, King of Prussia, being proclaimed first Emperor of Germany, 1871. After the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, as a gesture of further humiliation of the French

In Possession, 1871. Prussian officers billeted on a French family, December 1871, towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 in which France was defeated and partly occupied

Shades of Louis XIV and Napoleon I lamenting the fading of Frances glory, 1870. Artist: John Tenniel
Shades of Louis XIV and Napoleon I lamenting the fading of Frances glory, 1870. On 5 October 1870 Wilhelm I (1797-1888), King of Prussia (foreground), made Versailles his headquarters

General Bourbakis defeated French army in Switzerland, February 1871. Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871. Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871

French retreat to Switzerland, 30 January-1 February 1871 (c1880). Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871. After his attempt to break the Prussian line at Belfort had ended in disaster, with the loss of 10

Low(e) art and whitewash, 1873. Artist: Joseph Swain
Low(e) art and whitewash, 1873. Mr Robert Lowe slaps whitewash onto the sturdy figure of a policeman. The British police had been under fire in recent years following various scandals both in London

Big Bogey in Ireland, 1869. Artist: Joseph Swain
Big Bogey in Ireland, 1869. The Cardinal forbids his little catholic children from joining their Protestant friends in the National School

Christ Crowned with Thorns, ca. 1470-80. Creator: Master of Jesus in Bethany
Christ Crowned with Thorns, ca. 1470-80

Christ Crowned with Thorns (copy). n. d. Creator: Jan Muller
Christ Crowned with Thorns (copy).n.d. After Lucas van Leyden

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