Phil Collection (page 8)

Two Cockneys discuss the pedigree of a dog
Two Cockneys discuss the (er..) pedigree of a dog! " Say, Bill, wots is pedigree?" Bill: " Why es by a porter out o a third class railway kerridge." !! Date: 1895

Vignette of a distinctive East London Character Date: 1890s

Arriet - a good Cockney Girl in all of her finery. Date: circa 1890s

Cockney Couple on Hampstead Heath reading a magazine
" The Upper Ten" - being read by a Cockney Couple (and their bulldog) under a tree on Hampstead Heath. A few bottles of ale have been consumed. Date: 1901

Cockney couple off a day out at Margate
Cockney couple in their finery - all ready to depart for a day out in Margate. Date: 1900

Cockney Humour - temptation
Salvation Army Captain: " When the Serpent tempted Eve" Bill: " Oh Chuck it! There wanted no bloomin snake

Two laughing young Cockney scamps Date: 1890s

Observations at a Cockney Funeral - Phil May
One Easter Monday. Arriet (watching the funeral of Liza) - " Nice sort of Bank Oliday for er, poor dear!" Date: 1900

Cockneys visiting a Royal Navy Gunboat
An Honest London Taxpayer wanting full value for his contributions! Visiting Day on a Gunboat. Arry: " Is the Captain in?" Jack: " Yes, hes aboard

Cockney London Flowergirl sells buttonhole to city gent
A Cockney London Flowergirl sells a buttonhole bouquet to a well-to-do city gentleman. Date: 1895

Two Cockney Costers having a jovial chat: " Wots th row up the Court, Bill?" " Bob Smith was kissing my Missus, and is Old Woman caught im!" Date: 1892

Two Cockney ladies admiring an artist
Two Cockney ladies admiring (?) an artist and is bloomin at ! Date: 1895

Happy Hampstead - Coster Saleswoman at Hampstead Fair, who also seems quite open to offers for her noisy offspring! Date: 1899

Cockney ladies discuss their romantic life
Two Cockney ladies discuss their romantic life - cartoon by Phil May. There appears to have been a muddle up between the word clandestine and the word incandescent

Cockney Coster Woman - caricature by Phil May
" Shes just about the neatest, sweetest and prettiest Donah in the whole wide world" - lyrics to a Coster song by Albert Chevalier - caricature by Phil May Date: 1892

Coster Cockney couple embracing on a park bench on Hampstead Heath. Date: 1890s

Cockney lovers - marriage proposal on the grass - " How do you fancy having awkins as your other name?!". Lyrics fom a coster song by Albert Chevalier. Date: 1898

Caricature of Barry Eric Odell Pain - English journalist
Caricature by Phil May of Barry Eric Odell Pain (18641928) - English journalist, poet and writer. Date: 1893

Costers and Cockneys. Having a straight conversation! Date: 1895

American author Mark Twain
American author and humorist Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910) - smoking his inseparable corn-cob pipe and holding a billiard cue - caricature by Phil May. Date: 1892

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder - caricature by Phil May
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Molke) (1800-1891) - a German Field Marshal - caricature by Phil May. Date: circa 1891

German Emperor Wilhelm I - caricature by Phil May
German Emperor Wilhelm I (1797-1888) - caricature by Phil May. Date: circa 1890

Caricature of Otto Von Bismarck by Phil May
Caricature of Prussian Statesman Otto Von Bismarck (1815-1898) by Phil May. Date: 1892

Henry Labouchere - caricature by Phil May
Henry Du Pre Labouchere (18311912) - English politician, writer, publisher and theatre owner. Date: circa 1890s

Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt
Caricature by Phil May of Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt (18271904) - British lawyer, journalist and Liberal statesman. Date: circa 1890s

John Burns - caricature by Phil May
Caricature by Phil May of John Elliot Burns (18581943) - an English trade unionist and politician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Date: 1892

Caricature of Charles Beresford, First Baron Beresford
Caricature of Charles William de la Poer Beresford, First Baron Beresford (1846-1919) - an officer of the Royal Navy - by Phil May

3rd Marquess of Salisbury - caricature by Phil May
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830-1903) - British Politician and Statesman - caricature by Phil May. Date: 1893

Caricature of Joseph Chamberlain by Phil May
Caricature of Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) - British Politician - by Phil May. At this stage, Chamberlain was Mayor of Birmingham. Date: 1893

Caricature of William Ewart Gladstone by Phil May
Celebrities and Personages - The Grand Old Man - William Gladstone (18091898). Date: 1893

Phil May self-portrait - Artists Room - Paganis Restaurant
Doodlings on a panel at Paganis Restaurant, Great Portland Street, London, including a self-portrait by Phil May (1864-1903)

Phil May in Holloway Prison - having his hair cut for free
Hilarious cartoon by Phil May, showing the caricaturist in Holloway Prison - having his hair cut for free! The reason for his incarceration was non-payment of his barbers bill!!! Date: circa 1890

Caricature of Hungarian artist Mihaly Munkacsy by Phil May
A rather harsh parody / caricature of the Hungarian artist Mihaly Munkacsy (1844-1900) and his famous religious painting of 1896 Ecce Homo! (" Behold the Man!" ) by Phil May. Date: 1898

Phil Mays Social caricature - leading Victorian Gentlemen
Phil Mays First Social caricature - published in the Christmas Issue of Society - the leading figures of the late Victorian age, including Henry Irving, The Dean of Westminster

Studies for A Coster Girl Dancing by Phil May. A right ol Cockney Knees Up! Date: circa 1890s

Self portrait of the Engish caricaturist Phil May
Self portrait of the English caricaturist Phil May (1864-1903). Date: 1899

A Court Jester raising the punch cup high! The illustration for the Contents page of the Phil May Folio. Date: 1892

Portrait of the Artist Phil May
Signed Portrait of the English Caricaturist Phil May (18641903). Date: circa 1899

A wandering Pierrot Minstrel with his black cat. Date: 1892

Couple enjoying a romantic picnic under a tree
A Book of Verses undeneah the bough - A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread and Thou - Beside me singing in the wilderness - Oh Wilderness were Paradise enow! (Omar Khayyam) Date: 1901

Theatrical Jester
Portrait of a Theatrical Jester. Date: 1895

Great Expectations - Waiting to see An Ideal Husband
Satirical card entitled Great Expectations. A group of women waiting to see a performance of An Ideal Husband (an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde) at the Haymarket Theatre, London. Date: 1895

Bookplate of English caricaturist Phil May. Print shows the profile of a woman in a hat. Date 1895

Battle of Quingua, Phil. I. April 23, 1899. Print showing battle scene with American troops in the foreground advancing on Filipino troops behind earthworks. Date c1899

Phil Sheridans New City Sports Company woman in lowcut dress pointing at man holding chair and cane. Date 1899?

Phil Sheridans New City Sports Company. Date c1899

Silhouette portrait of Adam Mickiewicz by Phil May
Silhouette portrait of Adam Mickiewicz (1798 - 1855), Polish poet, playwright and radical. Date: 1888

Silhouette of Phil May
Wonderful silhouette self-portrait of the celebrated English cartoonist, Phil May (1864 - 1903) showing him in profile smoking one of his signature cigars. Date: 1911

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