Comment Collection (page 8)

Planing Off a Bit More
Comment on womens desire to achieve the fashionable silhouette of no curves. A thin, flat-chested woman with an Eton crop wears court shoes & a sailor style dress

Du Maurier / Coming Out
Comment on the aristocracy - time to come out into hollow society

Rail Accident Risk
A satirical comment on the remarkably high accident rate of excursion trains

Disraeli / Elephant / India
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Dizzy has turned the Conservative Party into a rogue elephant: a comment on his interest in India

TOO LATE ! Tommy Atkins mounted on Too Late by Verbosity out of Vacillation - a bitter comment on Gladstones refusal to rescue Gordon from Khartoum

Self-Preservation
The conservation of species - fashionably dressed animals make their way to the Ark : a satirical comment on society, each is bent on preserving his/her own

Orleans / Lpr / Fantasio 10
LOUIS-PHILIPPE-ROBERT DUC D ORLEANS A satirical comment on his claim to the French throne; also a scientist and explorer

Napoleon the Kingmaker
Napoleon the Gingerbread Baker creating new kings - a comment on his habit of appointing his relatives to the thrones of defeated or occupied nations

Snug Winter Quarters a comment on Napoleons claim that weather conditions favour his strategy in Russia

Japan Takes over World
The Japanese Yellow Peril - a paranoid comment on Japans expansionism

1867 / Reform Bill / Punch
The Derby, 1867. Dizzy wins with " Reform Bill" Comment on Disraeli and the Reform Bill

1846 / Lords & Corn Bill
The Lords " getting up" the Corn bill" Satirical comment on the repeal of the Corn Laws

WILHELM II German Emperor: a satirical comment on his intention to visit Paris in 1900 to attend the Exhibition

Wilhelm I / Moloch 1882
KAISER WILHELM I Emperor of Germany: a satirical comment on his greed for territory

Zola / Pelerin 1923
EMILE ZOLA Satirical comment on his novel, Lourdes (1894) - the Devil teaches him to be sceptical about miracles

Zola / Trombinoscope 1882
EMILE ZOLA French novelist: a satirical comment on his portrayal of the seedier side of life in his novels

Richard Wagner / Sambourne
RICHARD WAGNER German composer: a satirical comment on his four-opera Ring Cycle at Her Majestys and Drury Lane

Liszt / Pianist / Vie Parisi
A humorous comment on the Hungarian composers dramatic keyboard technique

Insurance Stamps
A comment on Lloyd Georges National Insurance Act : a maidservant asks her mistress if she is supposed to stick the insurance stamps on herself... ?

Reporting / Helle, 1908
Comment on the total lack of privacy for public figures (the Presidential nightmare in France)

STRIKE / JUDGE (1906)
Perceptive comment on the effect of most strike action - the public get it in the neck

Protective Fashions
The Prussians are shelling Paris, but the couturists rise to the occasion with this tasteful protective clothing, with matching outfit for dear Toutou

Additional Postmen
Huge increase in the number of postmen ! A comment on the pigeon post which employs carrier pigeons to fly messages out of Paris over the heads of besieging Prussians

Food Shortage 1870
Even the animals from the Zoo must queue for their food just like the rest of us Parisians

Anti-Suffrage Device
Automatic Suffragette Exterminating Pillar-Box - a comment on militant suffragettes who sabotage letter boxes

Dining on Oysters
An insolent young man smoking a cigar, puts on his gloves as he makes a parting comment to an affronted older gentleman who is stopped in the act of smashing open an oyster

School Report / Inside
A school report card for Ecole de Pont-Levoy for the academic year 1847 -8. This child generally achieves the comment Bien with a few Tres Biens for music

Dutch Merchants
An allegorical comment on Dutch trading ventures of the 17th century - merchants consult atlases and globes while their vessels sail eastwards intent on trade

Dutch Weight
Satirical comment on the way the Dutch were thought to have cheated the Native Americans by mis-weighing furs

Satire on Millenarians
Satirical comment on the MILLENARIANS

Satire on Shakers
Satirical comment on the SHAKERS

Satire on Quakers
Satirical comment on the QUAKERS

Satire on Jumpers
Satirical comment on the JUMPERS

Napoleon at Boulogne 4
Irreverent English comment on Napoleons failed coup d etat at Boulogne

The Lion of the Season
An alarmed flunkey introduces Mr Gorilla as The lion of the season, a comment on explorer Paul du Chaillus book on equatorial Africa with its eyewitness account of gorillas

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