Riddle Gallery

Photo of Baroness von Hutten in the Tatler

Black and white full page photograph of Baroness von Hutten in the Tatler of 22nd December 1909. Born Bettina Riddle in Erie, Pennsylvania, she married Friedrich Karl August, the Baron von Hutten zum Stolzenberg, in 1897, was a novelist specialising in historical fiction. This photo was taken to publicise her first venture into acting in the part of Aunt Imogen in Pinkie and the Fairies, a part previously played by Ellen Terry. Date: 22nd December 1909

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

An old Woman whipping her Cat for Catching Mice on a Sunday

489722 An old Woman whipping her Cat for Catching Mice on a Sunday, illustration from Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century by John Ashton, pub. 1882 (litho) by English School, (18th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: The True Trial of Understanding, or Wit Newly Reviv'd, being a Book of Riddles Adorned with Variety of Pictures.
Printed and Sold in London;); The Stapleton Collection; English, out of copyright

© The Stapleton Collection / Bridgeman Images

Oedipus and the Sphinx, 1880. Artist: Antique

Oedipus and the Sphinx, 1880. Oedipus was a mythical Greek king of Thebes. Oedipus meetd the Sphinx at the crossroads on his journey between Thebes and Delphi and must answer the Sphinx's riddle in order to pass. Failure means his own death and that of the besieged Thebans. The riddle was: What walks on four feet in the morning, two in the afternoon and three at night?. From Stories from the Greek Tragedies by the Rev. Alfred J. Church, M.A. [Seeley, Jackson, & Halliday, London, 1880]

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