Author: Steve Melcher

Antonio Rotta, Italian

“Yes, Of Course I’m 21. I Assume You Mean Months,” Date Unknown

Oil on panel

Camille Félix Bellanger, French

“I’m in the Market For a Good Bovine Law Attorney, If You Know of Any. They Got Me Last Night For Drinking and Cattle Driving,” 1899

Oil on canvas

Edmund Birckhead Bensell, American

The Top 10 Most Awkward Romantic Moments (#7): The Preemptive Shotgun Wedding Proposal, 1878

Chromolithograph

Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller, Swedish

Man Admiring His Olympic Bronze Medal In Synchronized Silversmithing, 1782

Oil on canvas

Charles Joshua Chaplin, French

Goldilocks Reading the Bears’ Restraining Order, Date Unknown

Oil on canvas

Thomas Le Clear, American

On This Day In Photography History: An English Pointer Named Sparky Pulls Off The First Photobomb, ca. 1865

Oil on canvas

Carl Wilhelmson, Swedish

Poppy Hated Hat Hair, So She Scrounged Up a Few Electromagnets and Created “The Hoverhat,” ca. 1910s

Oil on canvas

James Henry Beard, American

Albert Had Never Known the Identity of His Father, But As He Grew Older, He Increasingly Suspected Santa Claus, 1859

Oil on canvas