Silly Collection (page 2)

Street quarrel in London, 1826. Creator: Henry Bonaventure Monnier
Street quarrel in London, 1826. Londres / Discussion Orageuse'. Stormy discussion between a man and a woman with bystanders. Print no. 6 in a series of seven meetings in Paris and London

Esquisses Parisiennes, (Parisian Sketches), 1827-1828. Creator: Francis Conscience
Esquisses Parisiennes, (Parisian Sketches), 1827-1828. A reserved man is greeted exuberantly by an excited man. He arrive donc farceur, nous sommes deja au champagne

Scene from "Pefroen with the sheep head", 1740. Creator: Cornelis Troost
Scene from "Pefroen with the sheep head", 1740. "Pefroen met het schaapshoofd", farce by Y. Vincent

Every one his fancy, 1670-1675. Creator: Godfried Schalcken
Every one his fancy, 1670-1675

Very Polite: The Party on the Grey, having invited some Strangers to Lunch...1856. Creator: Joseph Swain
Very Polite: The Party on the Grey, having invited some Strangers to Lunch, shows them the Nearest Way (by half a mile) to his House, 1856

L'enlevement d'Hélène, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
L'enlevement d'Helene, 19th century. The abduction of Helen - play on words: Helen carries Paris who smokes a cigar

Le Mardi Gras, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Le Mardi Gras, 19th century. [Carnival scene. First man]: Tell me...Balandier...is it raining? [Second man]: You're wrong...Moussard...on the contrary I think I've got a bit sunburnt!

Vous savez bien l'éponge que vous disiez... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Vous savez bien l'eponge que vous disiez... 19th century. Parisians. First chef: You know the sponge that you said I'd lost, well you had put it in Madame Grimblot's vol-au-vent

Dire que je n'ai pas pu tirer... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Dire que je n'ai pas pu tirer... 19th century. When one has bad luck. First huntsman: To think that I haven't even managed a shot since this morning

Aspect de la rue Lacépède... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Aspect de la rue Lacepede... 19th century. Scene on the rue Lacepede - snake hunt. (French naturalist Bernard Germain Etienne de la Ville)

Les Parisiens ayant trouvé le moyen de circuler... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Les Parisiens ayant trouve le moyen de circuler... 19th century. Parisians have found a way of getting around on tarmacked boulevards during rainy weather

Ayant eu la vaniteuse idée de vouloir... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Ayant eu la vaniteuse idee de vouloir... 19th century....lutter de vitesse avec le chemin de fer. Swimmers attempting in vain to compete with the speed of the railway

Achat d'un tableau horloge, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Achat d'un tableau horloge, 19th century. Purchase of a clock picture - inexpressible joy of a bourgeois who hears the sound of the tocsin chiming midday

Le bon temps est passé... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Le bon temps est passe... 19th century. Parisians. Group of men looking at turnstile outside the stock exchange: The good times are over...nowadays, to get rich on the stock market

Le danger de s'assoupir en voyage, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Le danger de s'assoupir en voyage, 19th century. Railways. The dangers of dozing off during the journey. Porter wakes passenger who asks where are we?'. Porter replies Rouen'

Au restaurant a 32 sous, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Au restaurant a 32 sous, 19th century. Scenes we'd like to see. The restaurant with the 32-sou menu. Customer: Garcon, chicken with watercress

Un réveil en sursaut, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Un reveil en sursaut, 19th century. Startled awake. Man: Wife, wife? Woman: My God! what's wrong, Theodore? Man: I dreamt I had colic!

Nymphes des bords de la Marne, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Nymphes des bords de la Marne, 19th century. Nymphs bathing in the River Marne. (View taken from near Nogent)

Une erreur excusable, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Une erreur excusable, 19th century. Woman in a large crinoline dress. An understandable mistake. Chickens believing they have found the coop where they spent their youth

Monsieur, vu l'absence complète... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Monsieur, vu l'absence complete... 19th century. First man: Monsieur, given the complete absence of game, I ask your kind permission to shoot your dog

Something to Look At, 1817. Creator: Unknown
Something to Look At, 1817....or The Return of the Embassy. "Il vaut mieux plier que rompre" [It's better to bend than to break], French proverb

A Riding-House, published 1780. Creator: Unknown
A Riding-House, published 1780. Men learning to ride horses. A short man on the right, about to mount his horse, has been identified as Captain Grose

A Lock'd Jaw for John Bull, published November 23, 1795. Creator: Unknown
A Lock'd Jaw for John Bull, published November 23, 1795. British prime minister William Pitt: Don't be alarmed Johnny

The Pipe of Peace (recto), n.d. Creator: Ebenezer Newman Downard
The Pipe of Peace (recto); (Sketch of Village Street (verso)), n.d

The Pedestrian Hobbies, or the Difference of Going Up and Down Hill, published April 8, 1819. Creator: William Heath
The Pedestrian Hobbies, or the Difference of Going Up and Down Hill, published April 8, 1819. Men riding hobby horses (a forerunner of the bicycle)

The New Long Back'd Hobby made to carry Three without Kicking, published June 19, 1819. Creator: William Heath
The New Long Back'd Hobby made to carry Three without Kicking, published June 19, 1819. A hobby horse (a forerunner of the bicycle) adapted to carry a passenger

The Dandy and His Postillion - or the Waay to Laugh Up Hill, 1819. Creator: William Heath
The Dandy and His Postillion - or the Waay to Laugh Up Hill, 1819. Ha! Ha! Ha! poor fellow! goodbye! He! He! He!'. Cus these hills! If the lace of my Stays should break I'm done over'

The Battle R-L, published June 3, 1816. Creator: William Heath
The Battle R[oya]L, published June 3, 1816. Tug of war over a pair of breeches. [The Prince Regent:] Pull away my boy pull away, my Rib wanted to wear mine by they would not Fit her, hold fast Mc!!

Hobbies or Attitude is Everything, Dedicated with permission to all Dandy.. pub. April 17, 1819. Creator: William Heath
Hobbies or Attitude is Everything, Dedicated with permission to all Dandy Horsemen, published April 17, 1819. An accident involving men riding hobby horses (a forerunner of the bicycle)

Going to the Races, published May 14, 1819. Creator: William Heath
Going to the Races, published May 14, 1819. Carriage pulled by men riding hobby horses, a forerunner of the bicycle lacking pedals and brakes. Attributed to William Heath

Everyone His Hobby, plate 2, published April 24, 1819. Creator: William Heath
Everyone His Hobby, plate 2, published April 24, 1819. Caricatures of men riding hobby horses (a forerunner of the bicycle) designed to reflect their profession

A Family Party Taking an Airing, 1819. Creator: William Heath
A Family Party Taking an Airing, 1819. A hobby horse (a forerunner of the bicycle) adapted to carry a passenger (and her pets). The rider is teased by monkeys. Attributed to William Heath

Dandies, 1519 and 1819, published January 20, 1819. Creator: William Heath
Dandies, 1519 and 1819, published January 20, 1819. Male fashions of the 16th and 19th centuries. Attributed to William Heath

Haymarket - Scene from "The Second Calendar and the Queen of Beauty...", 1850. Creator: Unknown
Haymarket - Scene from "The Second Calendar and the Queen of Beauty who had to fight with the Genie", 1850. London stage production by the brothers Brough

Sadler's Wells - Scene from "Harlequin and the House that Jack Built in 1851", 1850. Creator: Unknown
Sadler's Wells - Scene from "Harlequin and the House that Jack Built in 1851", 1850. London stage production

Lyceum - Scene from "King Charming; or, The Blue Bird of Paradise", 1850. Creator: Unknown
Lyceum - Scene from "King Charming; or, The Blue Bird of Paradise", 1850. London stage production of James Planche's play

The New Fashion Phaeton, February 22, 1776. Creator: Philip Dawe
The New Fashion Phaeton, February 22, 1776. Sic Itur ad Astra, (Thus one goes to the stars). Attributed to Philip Dawe

Scene from the new farce of "The Slow Man", at the Adelphi Theatre, 1854. Creator: T. H. Wilson
Scene from the new farce of "The Slow Man", at the Adelphi Theatre, 1854. London stage show....the extraordinary scene in Mr

Illustration from "A Long-Vacation Vigil" by Cuthbert Bede, B.A. 1854. Creator: Unknown
Illustration from "A Long-Vacation Vigil" by Cuthbert Bede, B.A. 1854. Thunder and lightning: a young man stands outside in the rain, watched by woman from her window

Frivolous love, c1780-1789. Creators: Jean Frederic Schall, Nicolas Lavreince
Frivolous love, c1780-1789

Scene from "Harlequin and Humpty-Dumpty", 1850. Creator: Unknown
Scene from "Harlequin and Humpty-Dumpty", [Drury Lane Theatre, London], 1850....scene in which the hero figures in grotesque rotundity...The hero was a rebel in the days of King Richard

Death of the "Lion Queen", in Wombwell's Menagerie, at Chatham, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Death of the "Lion Queen", in Wombwell's Menagerie, at Chatham [in Kent], 1850. It was the business of the deceased [17-year-old Ellen Blight] to go into the dens

Ascent of M. Poiteven, on Horseback, in a Balloon, from the Champ de Mars, Paris, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Ascent of M. Poiteven, on Horseback, in a Balloon, from the Champ de Mars, Paris, 1850. Upwards of 10, 000 persons paid for admission...to witness the ascent...It was a matter of considerable

Scene from "The Merry Wives of Windsor; or, Harlequin and Sir John Falstaff, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Scene from "The Merry Wives of Windsor; or, Harlequin and Sir John Falstaff, [Surrey Theatre, London], 1850....the never-to-be forgotten incident of the buck-basket

Georgia road sign, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Georgia road sign. ['Got to Church - It Pays - Church of Christ - H.W. McClish, Minister']

Georgia road sign, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Georgia road sign. ['Hambuglars']

There Is No Deception - drawn by Leech, 1850. Creator: Unknown
There Is No Deception - drawn by Leech, 1850. Illustration to "Christmas Interiors", an article by the Old Batchelor

Wild Duck Shooting on the Potomac, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Wild Duck Shooting on the Potomac, 1850. American invention for duck-shooting:..one device attracted my notice especially [and] succeeds admirably

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