Pastiche Collection

Junction Picture
A medieval missionary finds a place where the Earth touches the Heavens. (Note that this is not a medieval illustration but a very clever 19th century pastiche !)

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

Mock article in Punch with a version of the popular book character Wee Macgreegor, written by J. J. Bell and drawn by John Hassall, pictured in tears. Date: 1903

Ballet dancer in Scottish costume in Robert Bruce, 1846
Ballet dancer in Scottish costume in the pastiche opera Robert Bruce by Gioachino Rossini, Academie Royale de Musique, 1846

Bettini as Arthur in the pastiche opera Robert Bruce, 1846
Italian tenor Geremia Bettini as Arthur in the pastiche opera Robert Bruce by Gioachino Rossini, Academie Royale de Musique, 1846

Paul-Bernard Barroilhet in Robert Bruce, 1846
French baritone Paul-Bernard Barroilhet in the pastiche opera Robert Bruce by Gioachino Rossini, Academie Royale de Musique, 1846

Soprano singer Mlle. Maria Nau as Nelly in Robert Bruce
Soprano singer Mlle. Maria Nau as Nelly in the pastiche opera Robert Bruce by Gioachino Rossini, Academie Royale de Musique, 1846

Tenor singer Louis Paulin as King Edward II in Robert Bruce
Tenor singer Louis Paulin as King Edward II of England in the pastiche opera Robert Bruce by Gioachino Rossini, Academie Royale de Musique, 1846

A page in the pastiche opera Robert Bruce by Gioachino Rossini, Academie Royale de Musique, 1846. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Alexandre Lacauchie from Victor Dollets Galerie

Ballet dancer Mlle. Maria Jacob in Robert Bruce, 1846
Ballet dancer Mlle. Maria Jacob in the pastiche opera Robert Bruce by Gioachino Rossini, Academie Royale de Musique, 1846

Bass opera singer Bessin as Dickson in Robert Bruce
Bass opera singer Bessin as Dickson in the pastiche opera Robert Bruce by Gioachino Rossini, Academie Royale de Musique, 1846

Mezzo soprano Rosine Stoltz as Marie in Robert Bruce
Mezzo soprano Rosine Stoltz as Marie in the pastiche opera Robert Bruce by Gioachino Rossini, Academie Royale de Musique, 1846

Bass singer Raffaele Anconi as Douglas in Robert Bruce
Bass singer Raffaele Anconi as Douglas in the pastiche opera Robert Bruce by Gioachino Rossini, Academie Royale de Musique, 1846

Music cover, Das Dreimaderlhaus, by Franz Schubert
Music cover, Das Dreimaderlhaus (House of the Three Girls), by Franz Schubert, a Viennese pastiche operetta in three acts, rearranged by Heinrich Berte

Early Victorian Label - Egyptian hieroglyphs pastiche. 19th century

JAPANESE PRINTING
How they print from wood blocks in the Orient - apart from its subject interest, a remarkable pastiche of Japanese painting Date: 1924

The Country House Season 1915 by Charles Robinson, WW1
House party at Castle Bareacres coming down to dinner during the munitions season. A pastiche on the traditional, upper class house party of the pre-war era

You Dirty Boy, Kaiser Wilhelm II cartoon, WW1
A cartoon depicting Europe as a sensible woman with sleeves rolled up, washing the ears of Kaiser Wilhelm II with a washing bowl labelled, Denunciation of Humanity

Mentmore Towers 1929
Aerial view of Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire. Built in 1855 for Baron Meyer Amschel de Rothschild & designed by Sir Joseph Paxton in the Elizabethan style

5th Duke of Buccleuch and 7th of Queensberry
Walter Francis Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch and 7th of Queensberry depicted as Monarch of all the Lowland Glens in a pastiche of Landseer. Date: 1883

Egyptian style advertisement for Shell Motor Spirit - King Petrolemy Sendeth Unto Pharaoh Gifts of Precious Spirit. Date: early 20th century

In the Wings by Bruce Bairnsfather
Peace still waiting in the wings at the British Empire, whilst the famous crosstalk comedians Conference Brothers present their latest and greatest absurdity - Versailles

Seeing themselves as Bairnsfather sees them
A homage to the cartoons of Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander, drawn by an amateur soldier artist, Major D. de la C. Ray

Bystander cover - Derby scheme attesting Bairnsfather
Front cover of The Bystander magazine featuring an illustration by Fred Buchanan which is a pastiche of Bruce Bairnsfathers famous The Better Ole cartoon (in the same magazine)

Armistice Day hand-drawn postcard
A postcard drawn by a British soldier on Armistice Day, 1918 in the style of horse racing results, but instead listing the winners, losers and " also rans" of the Great War

The East Coast is So Bracing! by James H. Thorpe
A pastiche of the famous " Skegness is so Bracing" poster by John Hassall, reworked by J.H. Thorpe in the light of the coastal bombardment suffered by Britain in January 1915

Japanese Printmaking
How they print from wood blocks in the Orient - apart from its subject interest, a remarkable pastiche of Japanese painting

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