Ironic Collection

Sur le front occidental: la prise de la Crete de Vimy; Prisonniers allemands traversant... 1917. Creator: Unknown
Sur le front occidental: la prise de la Crete de Vimy; Prisonniers allemands traversant les lignes britanniques, sous le tir de barrage de leur propre artillerie, 1917

Place de la Bastille, 1850. Creator: Honore Daumier
Place de la Bastille, 1850. Achetez-moi donc une couronne, citoyen!'. Street-seller to top-hatted man: Buy a crown from me, Citizen!'. From Actualites

Vous avez la parole, expliquez-vous, vous êtes libre!, 1835. Creator: Honore Daumier
Vous avez la parole, expliquez-vous, vous etes libre!, 1835. Play on words - parole can also mean word in French, so the judge is saying: You have parole/you may speak, explain yourself

Les amis de la paix... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Les amis de la paix... 19th century. Friends of peace

O qu'ils sont laids!, 1836. Creator: Honore Daumier
O qu'ils sont laids!, 1836. Oh how ugly they are

2 heures, 1839. Creator: Honore Daumier
Singles Day (La Journee du Celibataire) - 2 heures, 1839. 2 hours

Eh bien! Vous voila Capitaine de la Garde-Nationnale!, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Eh bien! Vous voila Capitaine de la Garde-Nationnale!, 19th century. Parisians. First man: So! now you're captain of the National Guard! Second (scruffy-looking) man: My God, yes

Mais pis que j'vous dis qu c'est des amis... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Mais pis que j'vous dis qu c'est des amis... 19th century. They're friends I tell you...let them sort it out between themselves

Ma femme, t'as tort de me blamer... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Ma femme, t'as tort de me blamer... 19th century. Wife, you are wrong to blame me...as a famous philosopher said...wine-drinking without thirst is the only thing that distinguishes man from

Satáne piallard d'enfant va!...laisse moi donc composer en paix mon ode... 1844. Creator: Honore Daumier
Satane piallard d'enfant va!...laisse moi donc composer en paix mon ode... 1844. Satane piallard d'enfant va!...laisse moi donc composer en paix mon ode sur le bonheur de la maternite

Advertisement for current movie in town, Westley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Advertisement for current movie in town. The child is a flood refugee of March 1938 from southeast Missouri. Westley, California

James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton (c1525-1581), 1824. Artist: R Cooper
James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton (c1525-1581), 1824. Douglas was the last, and arguably the most successful, of the four regents of Scotland during the minority of King James VI

Perillus condemned to the bronze bull by Phalaris, 16th century, (1870). Artist: Pierre Woeiriot de Bouze
Perillus condemned to the bronze bull by Phalaris, 16th century, (1870). A wood engraving of Phalaris (c570 BC), tyrant of Agrigentum in Sicily

Bull of Phalaris, tyrant of Agrigentum, Sicily, c570 BC (16th century). Phalaris commissioned Perillus of Athens to make a brazen bull in which to execute criminals who were shut up in it then baked

Political poster for The Budget League, British, 1910. This group published a weekly magazine with the objective of rallying support for the prime minister, David Lloyd George

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