Fist Gallery

Picture Postcard - Humour

A humorous write-away postcard allowed the sender to write a greeting or short note on the front of the postcard at a time when only the recipient's address was permitted on the back of the postcard (ie: pre-1902). An irate man (still in pyjamas and nightcap) shakes his fist out of a window at a speedily-retreating smilingcat burglar who has pinched a dead rabbit. Artist: Evelyn Stuart Hardy

© Mary Evans / Peter & Dawn Cope Collection

Governor Andros in Boston

Edmund Andros was appointed governor of the Dominion of New England. He stands with a manservant in a Boston street, with various Bostonian men standing near and whispering to each other, one man leaning out a weaver's doorway to shake his fist at him.
1686

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Cartoon, F N Charrington, temperance worker

Cartoon, Frederick Nicholas Charrington (1850-1936), English social reformer and evangelical Christian who devoted himself to temperance work. He was a member of the Charrington Brewery family. The caption reads: A hard-working, East End missionary; he has not yet converted the Middlesex magistrates, though.
1883

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