Mocking Collection

Womens Rights / Mockery
A Womans Mind magnified

Mocking Bird (Card)
(Mimus polyglottus) An American bird renowned for its vocal powers

The Crown of Thorns
Jesus is given a crown of thorns by the mocking Roman soldiers

Recruitment poster parody WWI
Amusing pastiche based on advertisements for drawing schools and gently mocking the recruitment techniques of World War One

Roll out the barrel, cartoon gardener rolling lawn, with music playing from a neighbour's house, as if in mockery of the man's efforts

Poster, Barre Bicycles, Paris - depicting President Fallieres, King Edward VII and Emperor Franz Josef mocking Kaiser Wilhelm. Date: circa 1910

My Word! We caught THIS wandering here. Two young women mock a rather daft-looking young man, possibly trying to use his facial dexterity to gain their attention/affection?! Date: 1910

The Railway King! Down Upon Him! Satirical cartoon mocking the downfall of railway financier George Hudson. He is held upside-down by a bird - perhaps a crow or raven - dressed as a judge

Masked water tyrant, Fluvicola nengeta (Mocking water-chat). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William Swainson from Sir William Jardines Naturalists Library

The Joneses Holiday Beano by H. M. Bateman
A couple in a motorbike and sidecar find themselves bullied on the road by charabancs full of braying holidaymakers. 1926

Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris, mocking cliffchat
Plate 49, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Women Laughing by Francisco de Goya
Francisco de Goya (1746-1828). Spanish romantic painter. Women Laughing. 1820-1823. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain

Anti-Suffrage Cartoon
Beauty & Intellect are superior to Brute Force. An anti-suffrage cartoon mocking a suffragette. The speaker is depicted in a style in which suffragettes were often unfairly portrayed as a harridan

Folklore / Lupeux
A sinister creature of the night in Berry, central France, the mocking cry of the LUPEUX can lure the unwary passer-by into dangerous bogs

Pierce Egans Anecdotes: cartoon forced marriage pregnant b
Colour plate: A paris concern or prominent reasons for matrimony shows onlookers mocking couple in street scene from from Pierce Egans anecdotes of the turf, the chase, the ring and the stage, 1827

The musicians, c. 1617-1618, by Diego Velazquez (1599-1660)
Diego Velazquez (1599-1660). Spanish Baroque painter. The musicians, c.1617-1618. Gemaldegalerie. Berlin. Germany

Japanese Anti-Chinese Propaganda - John Bull and Uncle Sam
Japanese Anti-Chinese Propaganda featuring a representation of Japan (as a military General), alongside John Bull (Britain) and Uncle Sam (USA)

WW1 - Kaiser disappointed with his Zeppelin and U-Boat
WW1 - An illustration mocking the German Emperor Wilhelm II. Here he is depicted in his night robes, holding a down-scaled zeppelin in one arm, and a U-Boat in the other

WW1 - Cartoon - The Kaiser
WW1 - A cartoon illustrating mocking the Hohenzollern Kaiser (possibly German Emperor Wilhem II), illustrating the notion that in order to save himself

WW1 - Cartoon - The hero of the day
WW1 - A illustration making a joke out of the the rank of a Subaltern, seen as the lowest rank in the British army during WW1

The Radical Party - their promises are seen as all froth and no substance - a propaganda postcard mocking the ruling government (labelled the Radical Party )

Scenes from the Passion of Christ, ca. 1470. Anonymous
Scenes from the Passion of Christ, ca. 1470. Detail of Christ carrying the cross. Anonymous. Haarlem?. Catharijneconvent Museum. Utrecht. Netherlands

John Farquhar
JOHN FARQUHAR Scottish millionaire who purchased the ruins of Fonthill from William Beckford; in a fanciful surround, seemingly mocking. Date: 1751 - 1826

Charles Insulted / 1649
Charles I is mocked and insulted by Cromwells soldiers in the guardroom. Date: 27 January 1649

John Hewson Mocked
JOHN HEWSON mocking caricature of the shoemaker who rose to the rank of general in Cromwells army, regicide, escaped at the Restoration and lived in exile Date: ? - 1662

Posada, Illustration, The Adventures of Don Chepito
Illustration, The Adventures of Don Chepito -- Don Chepito addressing people in the street from a cart. Date: circa 1890s

Man pulling pram and children uphill, c. 1820
A rotund gentleman struggles to pull his two children in a pram uphill as his over-dressed wife follows on behind. The children look like they are rather enjoying this experience

The hunters sleep, Les Images en Musique
A hunter sleeps while rabbits dance round him in a ring, illustration in Les Images en Musique, with illustrations by Benjamin Rabier and easy pieces for piano by Jane Vieu. Date: 1908

WW1 - Mocking the Boche
WW1 - The enemy seen here captured by a British soldier. The soldier represented as a stereotyped Englishman, Cockney Tommy. The name Tommy was commonly ascribed to the British private soldier

WW1 - Successful Zeppelin raid
WW1 - The achievement and success of a recent zeppelin raid. The zeppelin is characterised as the child, that has returned, weeping to its Father the emperor

Armistice Day scene with Kaiser Wilhelm II cartoon
An Armistice Day scene in London on 11th November 1918 with a group of young men on the street holding up a placard with a cartoon of Kaiser Wilhelm II on it

Head of the Duke of York
Margaret of Anjou places a crown of paper on the head of Richard, Duke of York and has it placed above Micklegate Bar, York. Date: 1460

Cabbie advises fat fare to prevent horse spying him
Hilarious cartoon by Phil May: " I want you to take me to St. Johns Wood, Cabbie" " All right, Sir, but would you mind getting in on the other side so as the old horse don t see

Mocking bird
An illustration (Plate 17, Birds) from the Zoology of the Beagle

The Old Curiosity Shop, Quilp mocks the figurehead
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens, first published in the weekly serial Master Humphreys Clock from 1840 to 1841 and then as its own book in 1841

Fashion for the evening 1895
Three women wearing enormous leg-of-mutton sleeved blouse with bulging bodice, gored skirt and tiny waist. Date: 1895

Olympic poem
A satirical take on the Olympics by Alan Melville. 1948

British Ballad, Robin Goodfellow
ROBIN GOODFELLOW (The Mad Merry Pranks of) British ballad. More commonly known as Puck, the work of this mischievous creature is done by moonlight, and his mocking, laugh is Ho ho ho!

Fable / the Mock-Bird
THE MOCK-BIRD The mock-bird is chastised by a little warbler for imitating and ridiculing their songs without adding any original strains of his own

Grown Ladies Taught
Grown Ladies..taught to Dance: 2 girls smirk as a toothless yet fashionable old lady goes through her paces with the dancing master - (mirrored in a picture of a cat & monkey)

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