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Railway Trains in SpaceThe Book of Knowledge Volume 1 (1911)

Ten passenger trains, each with five carriages pulled by a steam locomotive, are heading for the sun, the moon, the nearest star, and for each of the other planets in this steam-punk Vctorian illustra [...]

Keywords: humour, space, trains, railways, steam engines, steampunk, retro, vintage, planets, solar system, diagrams, infographics, colour

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Added: 2018-02-13

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Title page detail: Scholarly KingBill Nye’s History of England (1900)

In this detail from the title page, a king (wearing a crown) sits at a table with a pen and an open book, and is also consulting a dictionary. He sratches his head, obviously baffled.

Keywords: cartoons, scholars, books, royalty, humour, greyscale

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Added: 2006-06-10

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Cartoon: barefoot boy fishingVictorian Trade Cards (1890)

A boy wearing a broad-brimmed sun-hat, a shirt, ragged breeches held up with suspenders, and who has bare feet, stands on a rock by a river and holds a fishing rod. A well-dressed and carefully-manicu [...]

Keywords: cartoons, humour, people, boys, fishing, men, bare feet, drawings, water, rivers, outdoors, greyscale

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Added: 2018-01-13

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The Well of KnowledgeThe Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

The jester leads the donkey (or mule) to the well of knowedge (written, quaintly, “Knowledge. HerWelle”) but, stubbronly, the mule refuses to drink. The mule is wearing the board and gown of a univers [...]

Keywords: colour, humour, jesters, wells, sketches, cartoons

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Added: 2010-05-07

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Bust of Cæsar.Bill Nye’s History of England (1900)

Cæsar (Caesar) here has a laurel wreath, a long nose and a rather unhappy face.

More about Julius Cæsar

Keywords: portraits, cartoons, faces, humour, greyscale

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Added: 2006-06-10

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The Discovery of Tin in BritainBill Nye’s History of England (1900)

A cartoon illustrating how the Romans discovered that Britain had... er... tin.

Keywords: people, boats, soldiers, weapons, romans, cartoons, humour, greyscale

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Added: 2006-06-10

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Cæsar crossing the channel.Bill Nye’s History of England (1900)

“Cæsar [Caesar] first came to Great Britain on account of a bilious attack. On the way across the channel a violent storm came up. The great emporor and pantata believed he was drowning, so that in an [...]

Keywords: people, boars, soldiers, romans, cartoons, humour, greyscale

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Added: 2006-06-27

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Cæsar treating with the BritonsBill Nye’s History of England (1900)

Cæsar (the Roman emperor) sits cross-legged on the ground, sharing a Native American peace pipe with the barefooted Britons. Of course, tobacco was not known in the ancient Western world; it came from [...]

Keywords: pipes, humour, cartoons, people, bare feet, beards, greyscale

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Added: 2006-08-08

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Ploughing 51 B.C.Bill Nye’s History of England (1900)

“Agriculture had a pretty hard start among these people, and where now the glorious fields of splendid pale and billowy oatmeal may be seen interspersed with every kind of domestic and imported fertil [...]

Keywords: people, cartoons, humour, agriculture, animals, horses, rocks, unicorns, mythical creatures, greyscale

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Added: 2006-06-28

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Awaiting the postman on Saint Valentine’s DayHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

St. Valentine’s day, the 14th of February (US: February 14) “Where can the postman be, I say? He ought to fly—on such a day!Of all days in the year, you know, It’s monstrous rude to be so slow: The fe [...]

Keywords: people, romance, sketches, humour, greyscale

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Added: 2007-01-05

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Steampunk flying cogAllegorien und Embleme, Vol II (1882)

A cog with feathered wings, a steam-whistle, perhaps a regulator knob, and another unidentifiable part, flies through the clouds.

Keywords: steampunk, victoriana, wings, machinery, humour, greyscale

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Added: 2018-10-29

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TroubleThe Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

They were driving to the poor-house when he car broke down. Granny is filling te engine, perhaps with fuel or with water, while someone in the foreground wields a hammer; behind them, a jester laughs.

Keywords: people, cars, jesters, cartoons, sketches, humour, colour

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Added: 2010-05-07

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The First MondayThe Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

“The First Monday”

Between two palm trees we see a clothes-line with, pegged to it, two fig-leaves.

Illustration before the week beginning on the 10th of June.

Keywords: humour, religion, cartoons, greyscale

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Added: 2013-01-06

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A Vision of the FutureThe Leisure Hour (1904)

A vision of a car of the future from May 1905. Amusingly, the two ladies in the passenger compartment are dressed in costume of the period, and appear to be paying no attention to driving: presumably [...]

Keywords: transport, people, aeroplanes, flying cars, humour, greyscale

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Added: 2006-05-13

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RufflecumtuffleDoings of the Bodley Family in Town and Country (1876)

THE FOUR QUEER ELVES Rufflecumtuffle and Floppytyfly, Bibbetybobble and Kickitteygo,   Were four queer elves   Who lived by themselves   On a mountain high, And scorned the fairies thta dwelt below [...]

Keywords: fairies, pagan, bare feet, beards, elves, mythical creatures, illustrations for children, carts, transport, humour, greyscale

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Added: 2012-11-25

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Drunken Man, Detail from BorderDie Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This part of the Sixteenth-Century border-image woodcut by Lucas Cranach the elder shows a man holding a large wineglass, holding a large tankard, with perhaps a barrel under his arm. He is crowned wi [...]

Keywords: drinking, overindulgence, ruin, bees, people, men, bare feet, drunk, hangover, gluttony, greed, addiction, humour, greyscale

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Added: 2020-10-23

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The Vigil of ArmsBill Nye’s History of England (1900)

“The most peculiar condition required for entry into knighthood was the “vigil of arms,” which consisted in keeping a long silent watch in some gloomy spot—a haunted one preferred—over the arms he was [...]

Keywords: people, cartoons, humour, spooky, ghosts, occult, interiors, greyscale

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Added: 2006-10-31

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Crest of a Popular KnightBill Nye’s History of England (1900)

“He wore a crest on his helmet adorned with German favors given him by lady admirers, so that the crest of a popular young knight often looked like a slump at the Bon marché” (p. 103)

Keywords: people, cartoons, humour, knights, helmets, greyscale

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Added: 2007-02-18

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One of Multum in Parvo’s “going” days.Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour (1856)

Parvo here is a rather strong-willed horse...We see the horse leaping past the hunting-dogs. The man riding the horse is a “toff” or country gentleman of the upper class, and hence portrayed as a lit [...]

Keywords: sports, horses, dogs, hunting, aristocracy, cartoons, sketches, drawings, humour, colour

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Added: 2011-07-03

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The BookmanThe Gnome King of Oz (1927)

“I can carry myself and turn over a new leaf every day in the year.” said the Bookman, smiling—Chapter 14 Tis is one of the gnomes that Peter met in the Land of Oz. “Why, it’s a book~” burst out Peter [...]

Keywords: people, books, pictures of books, humour, hats, mythical creatures, illustrations for children, colour

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Added: 2009-10-23

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