Punch Collection (page 12)

Punch and Judy show at the seaside

Jugend front cover, woman in a yellow dress
Front cover design for Jugend magazine, depicting a young woman with ginger hair, dancing in a low-cut yellow dress. She is wearing an admirals hat, and is holding a Punch doll in her hand

Punch & Judy Punch & Judy
Punch & Judy. Poster for presentation of Punch & Judy at the Sioux City(?) Art Center, showing bust illustrations of the two characters. Date 1940

Chew Punch plug tobacco. National Tobacco Works, Louisville, Ky. Black man and white man in pugilistic pose, Punchinello clown and dog wearing hat and collar on wall. Date c1886

Mothers Little Darling by Chloe Preston
Illustration by Chloe Preston showing a small boy in a seated in a compartment of a train carriage wearing a suit and bowler hat

E is the Ease for which she makes
Advertising for Punch Cleaner. Alphabet series of 26 postcards featuring children using or holding the product. Date: c.1912

The Old Curiosity Shop, the Punch and Judy people
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

U stands for Useful
Advertising for Punch Cleaner. Alphabet series of 26 postcards featuring children using or holding the product. Date: c.1912

A scene from the Midnight Follies cabaret show at the Hotel Metropole, London, 1920s - All the fun of the fair, including Punch & Judy. Date: 1920s

B stands for Brightness
Advertising for Punch Metal Polish. Alphabet series of 26 postcards featuring children using or holding the product. Date: c.1912

Street music: St Cecilias Day street scene, 1837
A street scene showing the cacophony of noises to be heard on St Cecilas feast day, the patron saint of music, which falls in November

The Greater Game: WW1 and football
No doubt you can make money in this field, my friend, but theres only one field to-day where you can get honour. A severe looking Mr

Australian soldier punching shoeshine boy
Get out! Etla barra! An Australian soldier punches a shoeshine boy, evidently not happy about accepting his services. Date: 1916

Satire on art of Aubrey Beardsley
Airs Resumptive. V. - Lilith Libifera (after Rossetti). A satirical drawing and poem published in Punch in 1894 on the art of Aubrey Beardsley

Mark Lemon - 1
MARK LEMON journalist and editor of Punch Date: 1809 - 1870

Shirley Brooks Cartoon
CHARLES WILLIAM (SHIRLEY) BROOKS Writer, Editor of Punch caricatured as Mr Punch. Date: 1816 - 1874

Brooks, Punch Editor
CHARLES WILLIAM (SHIRLEY) BROOKS Writer, Editor of Punch. Date: 1816 - 1874

Street Fight by George Ranstead
Drawing of two men engaged in a punch up in the street, much to the horror of a lady watching from a doorway (possibly the cause of the fight)

Satire on Irish Home Rule - Husband punched by wife (who in Green symbolises one side of the Irish struggle). The Irish Home Rule Movement came to an end at the outset of World War One

Dispute in a rail carriage
A fight breaks out among business men in a train carriage, who are debating fiscal retaliation. 1903

Punch and Judy show, 1940s
A group of rather bemused looking children stand watching a Punch and Judy Show. 1940s

The Three R s
Following the introduction of the Elementary Education Act, commonly known as Forsters Education Act, in February 1870, Punch magazine depicts William Forster, the Liberal MP who drafted the Act

Ta ra ra boom de ay - the popular favourite
Mr. Punch shields his ears against the din of the popular music hall hit Ta ra ra boom de ay, sung, played and whilsted in the street by all and sundry. Date: 1892

Christmas dinner carried in by four children dressed in medieval costume. There is a large turkey, glasses of steaming punch, a large round pudding, and a plate of fruit. early 20th century

Girl Minds Baby C1900
A little girl minds the baby. Date: circa 1900

Test your Strength
A man tests his punch at a fairground sideshow, while some impressed onlookers gather round to watch. Date: 1950s

Middle Class Prize Wives
Woman, women, wife, housewife Mr Punchs Four Prize Middle Class Wives. The wife as cook, intellectual companion, clerk and tennis partner! Date: 1889

Preparing for Masquerade
Preparing for a Masquerade: people in traditional costumes including Harlequin, Mr Punch, Pierrot, a nun and a monk Date: circa 1825

Punch / Ruskin / Whistler
JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER American painter and etcher Punch comment on his winning his court fight with Ruskin Date: 1834 - 1903

Crowd of Children 1950S
A crowd of children watch a Punch & Judy performance at the Whit Monday Church fete in a park in Thaxted, Essex. Date: 1950s

Pusey (Punch)
EDWARD BOUVERIE PUSEY Theologian, leader of the Oxford Movement I like to be despised Date: 1800 - 1882

Santa & Punchbowl
" GOOD HEALTH AND HAPPY NEW YEAR !" A jolly, red-faced Father Christmas, smoking his long pipe and bearing a huge punchbowl full of hot punch. 1890s

The Election Campaign in Full Swing
Some curious scenes from the General Election campaign of 1910. The top left picture shows David Lloyd George making his way over the back wall of the Queen Hall Skating Rink in Peckham to address an

Census tabulation in former Lambeth workhouse
Data from the 1931 census being transferred to punched cards in the former Lambeth workhouse - presumably the one on Princes Road (now Black Prince Road), Lambeth, south London

Good Cheer by Ethel Parkinson
Good Cheer -- four children dressed in medieval costume bring in the Christmas feast, consisting of a large turkey, glasses of steaming punch, a large round pudding, and a plate of fruit

Poster advertising Pygmalion for babys first toys
Poster advertising a shop called Pygmalion for babys first toys, open throughout the month of December

Bartholomew Fair (1721)
Coloured, semi-circular illustration of Bartholomew Fair (1721), with small text giving the history of the fair, published by J. F. Setchel, London, c1820. HPF/5C/47

An 18th Century Kitchen by Pauline Baynes
A galaxy of eighteenth century food and a kitchen scene showing food preparation. From the top is a Stargazey pie, then a baked ham stuffed with apricots, fried apple pasties

Government Critics
Its a thankless task stopping a Punch ball - The harder you hit it, the harder it comes back. Cartoon showing the Prime Minister, David Lloyd George

W. K. Haselden
Portrait of William Kerridge Haselden (1872-1953), British cartoonist, notable for his theatrical cartoons in Punch and his cartoons in the Daily Mirror

Grandolph Ad Leones
LORD RANDOLPH SPENCER Churchill, Tory politician lampooned in Punch following his letters about his exploits in Africa, published in the Daily Graphic

Frank Reynolds at Work
Frank Reynolds, artist, illustrator and cartoonist (1876-1953), later art editor of Punch. Profiled in The Sketch at one of their humorous artists

Shirley Brooks (1816-1874)
Engraved portrait of Shirley Brooks (1816-1874), the English journalist, pictured c.1874. Brooks worked for the Morning Chronicle, Punch and the Illustrated London News

Dave McCleave using a punch bag, 1936
Photograph showing Dave McCleave, then British welterweight champion, using a punch bag in a gym, 1936

Irish Nationalist Mocked
An Irish nationalist writer mocked as Mr G-O Rilla of the Young Ireland Party exulting over insults to England; Shouldn t he be extinguished at once? asks Punch

Elizabeth / Austria / Punch
ELIZABETH, EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA Wife of her own cousin, Franz Josef I of Austria, seen here on horseback during a visit to England

Jcp Bonaparte / Punch 1879
JOSEPH-CHARLES-PAUL BONAPARTE Prince Napoleon, nicknamed Plon-Plon, feeling sure that he can fill his great ancestors boots

Joseph Chamberlain Punch
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN Statesman, satirised early in his career

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