Cynical Collection

Female Type / Cynical 1917
A cynical young woman, after an encounter: " The more I think about it, the more I feel that men are just big fools." Date: 1917

Undertakers regaling themselves at Death's Door, Battersea Rise, Surrey -- a satirical scene in the style of Hogarth, with lines from a serious long poem, The Grave

MUSSOLINI GOOSE-STEPS
MUSSOLINI he leads his soldiers, performing the Roman Parade Step, known to cynical outsiders as the goose-step Date: 1879 - 1940

Cartoon, The French Consular Triumverate [Triumvirate], settling the New Constitution, with a peep at the constitutional pigeon holes of the Abbe Sieyes in the Background, by James Gillray

The Same Old Moon by Bruce Bairnsfather
A cartoon by Bruce Bairnsfather, with one panel a traditional romantic idea, and the other a cynical subversion of it, brought on by the lethality of trench warfare. Date: 1915

A Madame Yevonde portrait of Mr W. Somerset Maugham
Mr Somerset Maugham regards the world with a cold and cynical eye and writes about it with a brilliant pen. Madame Yevonde was a prolific and ground-breaking society portrait

Intellectual child cynic by Frank R Grey
An irritatingly intellectual little boy (called by the cartoonist, Repulsive Rupert) sits reading some hefty tomes at a table and says to his mother, who is darning socks

Intellectual child cynic by David Wilson
Humorous cartoon showing a small, rather grown-up and intellectual boy lying on his bed reading while the radio is on and saying to his mother, There goes that Childrens Hour

The beggars of New York
Cynical view of New York beggars who apparently pretend to be blind and hire babies to attract more sympathy, then go home or to the nearest eatery for a slap-up dinner. Date: 1886

British Ballad, The Twa Corbies
THE TWA CORBIES (Two Ravens or Two Crows) being a derivative of The Three Ravens with a cynical twist. A brave knight lies dead while the two scavengers (ravens)

Ex Pede Herculem
A cynical Irish soldier returning home on leave from the Front refuses a shoe shine boy, preferring instead to keep the mud on his boots as a symbol of honour

Alexander Meets Diogenes
Alexander the Great meets the famous philosopher Diogenes the Cynic, who is unimpressed by Alexanders fame and merely asks him to stand aside and stop blocking out the sun!

British in Egypt / 1893
UN PROTECTEUR The French are cynical about Britains intentions in their occupation of Egypt - because the British beat them to it, no doubt

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