Embarrassed Collection (page 2)

Cheers, mother-in-law! (colour litho)
3102338 Cheers, mother-in-law! (colour litho) by German School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Cheers, mother-in-law! Postcard, early 20th century.); Look and Learn / Elgar Collection

A Reproval (oil on canvas)
CH139942 A Reproval (oil on canvas) by Denneulin, Jules (1835-1904); 88x114 cm; Private Collection; Photo eChristies Images; French, out of copyright

View of the Hustings in Covent Garden, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1806
NCO190159 View of the Hustings in Covent Garden, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1806 (hand-coloured etching with aquatint) by Gillray

Falstaff in the washbasket (chromolitho)
1093617 Falstaff in the washbasket (chromolitho) by European School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Falstaff in the washbasket. A scene from Shakespeares The Merry Wives of Windsor)

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

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Myanmar, Mandalay, Young woman washing herself outside her house, Yay Kyi village

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

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

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

Picture No. 11676707
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Ignominy by George Studdy
Bonzo, the comic canine creation of George Studdy looks somewhat embarrassed as he is carried by the scruff of his neck across the road by his lady owner

Historic image in sepia tone of women wearing shawls standing together and a dog lying on the ground with them. One woman appears to be reprimanding another

The Host Who Forgot To Approve The Dish by H M Bateman, this illustration shows a group of people about to have dinner, but the host has forgotten to approve the dish

Peter denies knowing Jesus for the third time. Then, he remembers Jesus had already told that before the cock crows he would have betrayed three times. Codex of Predis (1476). Royal Library. Turin

SPILT MILK
An embarrassed cow looks the other way as a milkmaid throws a bucket of milk over a steel girder, perhaps a mock opening ceremony in the USA? Still, no use crying over spilt milk... Date: 1930s

Unbalanced Skaters
Two attractive, fashionable young ladies grasp firmly to an obliging man who does his best to ensure they all remain on their feet. Date: 1935

Mongrel puppy with two pedigree dogs in the park -- the spaniel and terrier question the puppys parentage, but he has no answer for them as his mother didn t tell him. Date: 1914

No. 3: People We Don t Envy by George Studdy, 1915
No. 3: The German postman trying to deliver a letter to a ruined Belgium village. Date: 1915

No. 2: People We Don t Envy by George Studdy, 1915
No. II: The Army Service Corps subaltern compelled to deliver a lecture on Supplies to a contingent of men recruited from grocers, butchers, provision dealers etc. Date: 1915

In the Firing Line
A smartly dressed man, which a perplexed expression, being caught with the woman in pink and being told to be sent away by the man in militray uniform, who has an angry expression. Date: 1918

The Perfect Debutante by Adrian Porter
Front cover of The Perfect Debutante, a book of humorous verse and sketches from 1937 taking the reader through the hilarious pitfalls and pleasures of the social season

Parody Legend Xu You Chao Fu Edo period 1615-1868
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The Test (oil on canvas)
BAL8936 The Test (oil on canvas) by Armstrong, Thomas (1835-1911); Roy Miles Fine Paintings; English, out of copyright

Strange Faces (w / c & bodycolour on paper)
XYC198535 Strange Faces (w/c & bodycolour on paper) by Walker, Frederick (1840-75); 65.9x79.4 cm; Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, USA; English, out of copyright

Declaration of Love, 1889-91 (oil on canvas)
BAL120884 Declaration of Love, 1889-91 (oil on canvas) by Makovsky, Vladimir Egorovic (1846-1920); 53x39.5 cm; Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia; Russian, out of copyright

WW2 - Keep em Flying - Off the Beam - It looks as if our plucky pilot was a bit out of line and is now facing the consequences!! Date: 1942

Gentleman puffing away at his pipe in a No Smoking Carriage - " So what??" Date: circa 1940s

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"Embarassment: A Universal Experience Across Time and Situations" From female medical students blushing during their first anatomy class to a doctor asking a naked man to cough, embarrassment knows no bounds. Even children scratching their bums in public or awkward encounters with prostitutes in London can make us turn red with shame. But it's not just humans who experience this emotion; even animals like the sable-point rabbit caught grooming its face can feel embarrassed. Just like spies captured at Greenwich in 1798 or Alfred, the neat-herdsman, caught off guard in his cottage by an artist named I Hall. Even humorous illustrations like "The Parents Who Came By Charabanc" by H. M. Bateman or George Kershaw's cheeky valentine card titled "Why Should I Blush?" remind us that embarrassment is often intertwined with laughter. In one particular scene depicted as a color lithograph, a woman catches sight of someone making an awkward and ridiculous appearance at her door. The sheer mortification on both sides is palpable. And let's not forget the image aptly titled "Not Here, " where someone finds themselves in an embarrassing situation they wish they could escape from immediately. Embarrassment may be uncomfortable and sometimes painful, but it reminds us of our shared humanity. No matter the time period or circumstance, we all have moments that make us want to hide our faces and disappear into thin air.