Embarrassed Collection (page 3)

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
Artokoloro

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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Lion cub

A Spill On The Ice In Central Park
New York, New York: January 1940. A young girl looks for assistance from her friends after a fall on the ice in Central Park. They re appear to be more interested in the camera

Cervantess Don Quixote, naked tumbles, 1863 French edition. Don Quixote performing tumbles half-naked as Sancho looks away

Yacht Larks
One boy climbs to the top of a yacht mast whilst his friend looks embarrassed to be seen with him! Date: early 1930s

NFS(London Region) Boy trapped in a coal scuttle
Boy trapped in a milk churn is set free at Brigade HQ on 4 July 1947. The milkman had brought him to the fire station in his milk float

Child embarrasses an up-tight man
Its Rather Embarrassing An up-tight Gentleman doesn t know how to react to the playful young companion in his railway compartment. Date: 1904

Proudest Moment by Fougasse
The Proudest Moment of his Life by Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird 1887-1965). A small man, profoundly embarrassed, sits at the head of a table at a company or club dinner in his honour as everyone

Better Late Than Never - a groom hastily makes his way up the aisle to stand alongside his bride, who is not at all impressed by his rather lax timing, Date: 1903

Jealousy, conceptual image. Computer artwork of a red-faced woman with green eyes, representing jealousy

Aunt Sallys Christmas Boxes: John Crasss Discomfiture
A Victorian family around a dining table during the distribution of envelopes of money, or Christmas boxes to servants. The servant who has just received his is either embarrassed or unimpressed with

Dancer and an Admirer
Old hand... young heart

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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.