Mocks Collection

Old Bill and Co. August 1940
" Hey! Mind what yer doin ! Thats the second time you ve got me with that fifth column o yours!" Bruce Bairnsfather pokes fun at rumours of German spies

JULIAS BUREAU
Julias Bureau, created by journalist W T Stead, claims to receive messages from the Borderland : Punch mocks... Date: 1893

Cartoon, The London Mission -- Loading the Gun at Exeter Hall. Punch mocks evangelical calls for British military intervention in Tahiti

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 )

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

WW1 - Hindenburg in the saddle
WW1 - Depicting Paul Von Hindeburgs (1847 - 1934), Germanys Chief of the General Staff, commanding loyal co-operation from the Austrian armies on the Eastern Front

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

Macmahon or Thiers ?
England mocks France for choosing the dashing soldier Macmahon in preference to the boring businessman Thiers

Thiers the Magician
Adolphe the Alchemist, a Tale of Wonder and Enchantment - Punch mocks Adolphe Thiers efforts to get France back on her feet after the defeat by Prussia and the Commune

Boy into Lizard
Demeter, desperately seeking her abducted daughter, gets thirsty : the boy Stellio mocks her for drinking so quickly, so of course she turns him into a lizard

Hagar Leaves Abraham
Hagar, mother of Abrahams child, mocks his sterile wife Sara, for which she is turned away into the desert : but an angel sorts matters out and reconciles each to all

Shem is Cursed by Noah
Shem, Noahs eldest son, sees his father in an indecent posture and mocks him, for which he receives his fathers curse

Marguerite in Cathedral
Mephistopheles mocks Marguerite in the Cathedral

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