Satire Collection (page 10)

League of Nations satire
The League of Nations Incomplete : The Gap in the Bridge Date: December 1919

A long snouted sow plays a harp, walks on stilts and wears the fashionable French steeple-shaped headdress known as a Hennin. A style rare in England. Date: late 15th century

Cartoon, Dora Discomfited -- when peace returns after the end of World War One, we are once again free to write what we like without fear of the censors black pencil. Date: 1919

Cambridge Double-decker Horse Tram
circa 1910s

The General Election - Intelligent Voters
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - Intelligent Voters. A mild satire as a bunch of working class rural yokels of Mudford take great interest in the finest small print of a prospective

The General Election - The Candidates Vision
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - The Candidates Vision. The glorious reception given to Josh Binks M.P. 1908

The General Election - Village Politicians
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - Village Politicians. A local candidate giving a speech to the assembled clientelle at the local rural boozer... 1908

The General Election - True Blue
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - True Blue. A Candidate takes a few local yokels out for a ride in his carriage to show solidarity with the common man voter... 1908

The General Election - Free Fooders
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - Free Fooders. Candidates at a hustings face the warth of the electorate and also face a barrage of eggs and vegeatbles

The General Election - An Enthusiastic Supporter
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - An Enthusiastic Supporter rolling-in after a hearty session of seemingly liquid-based campaigning!! 1908

A Rain-beau c. 1790
A Rain-beau - a fashionable young man wearing a tall pilgrim or Puritan-style hat, striped waistcoat, short boots revealing striped stockings, tight breeches, and carrying a parasol or umbrella

SATIRE ON HENRI III
Henri III, murdered by the monk Jacques Clement with the encouragement of the Catholic League, is conveyed to Hell for his wickedness in making a deal with Henri de Navarre. Date: 1 August 1589

Holloway and Suffragette
Holloway prison... We place them on plank beds and very low diet, To stop all their din, We just run them in, Into this house that man built. Date: circa 1910

SPAIN GOYA WAR VULTURE
The Carnivorous Vulture: a satire on Napoleons arrival in Spain during the Peninsular War. Date: circa 1808

BAD TASTE OF THE TOWN
The Bad Taste of the Town, also known as Masquerades and Operas: a satire on foreign imports such as pantomime, Italianate architecture and opera. Date: 1724

USE FOR CRINOLINES
A novel suggestion for the use of cage crinolines - an ornament for the Fire Stove! Date: 1859

HOW MANY CHAIRS?
A disgruntled looking woman wearing an enormous crinoline is asked by the chair proprietor how many chairs she is sitting on so that he can calculate her bill. Date: 1859

PROHIBITION CARTOON 1923
An X-ray examination of the American males person would reveal hidden alcohol aplenty, according to this cartoon. Date: 1923

Cartoon, An Exit Speech (Gladstone)
Cartoon, An Exit Speech -- Gladstone is isolated and unpopular in his arguments over the Irish Question. Date: 1886

Cartoon, Bulls Eye On Bobby
Cartoon, Bulls Eye on Bobby -- John Bull suspects police corruption. Date: 1877

SOCIAL / LONDON GOING OUT
A satire on the expansion of London: London going out of Town - or - The March of Bricks & Mortar Date: 1829

BRITISH IN EGYPT / 1893
A protector: a French satire on the British presence in Egypt Date: 1893

SATIRE ON STEAMBOATS
An early steamship, which like a giant kettle has built up too much pressure and exploded throwing its unwitting passengers overboard. The rowing boat appears safer. Date: circa 1830

Cartoon, Bottoms Dream (Republicanism)
Cartoon, BOTTOMS DREAM -- Nick Bottom (the working-man): I have a dream... [I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream Bottoms Dream because it hath no Bottom

WAR REPORTERS MOCKED 1880
The War Correspondent, imperturbable amidst shot and shell - if you believe his own account of his adventures ! Date: 1880

PIC-NIC AT HOME
A PIC-NIC IN THE DRAWING ROOM A satire on the growing habit of snacking instead of sitting round the table at formal meals Date: 1859

Bloomerism 1852
Cruikshanks Exhibition of Bloomers in Hyde Park - a satire on the fashion which Amelia Bloomer made famous Date: 1852

Cartoon, The Grand Old Name of Gentleman
Cartoon, THE GRAND OLD NAME OF GENTLEMAN -- Me and another gentleman ere as just been avin a bet on the breed of yodog. Date: 1888

Cartoon, Sowing Tares (Socialism)
Cartoon, SOWING TARES -- the Socialist devil sows tares (weeds) in the field of labour, a parody of a religious painting by Millais, His enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat. Date: 1886

ANTOINETTE AS OSTRICH
Satire depicting Marie Antoinette as an ostrich (she was Austrian) for her unwillingness to accept the Constitution. Date: 1789

Cartoon, The Live Shell (Gladstone and Salisbury)
Cartoon, The Live Shell (Which of em will throw it overboard?) William Gladstone and Lord Salisbury depicted as sailors, with the Irish question about to explode on the deck of their ship. Date: 1886

FRE REV / LOU XVI SATIRE
Louis XVI satirised as a traitor within a lantern, blocking out the sun. Date: 8 August 1792

FRANCE / REVOLUTION / SATIRE
A satire on the privileged classes. Date: 1789

Cartoon, How to Treat the Female Chartists -- cockroaches, rats and mice should see off the most ferocious crowd of females. Date: 1848

HOGARTH: THE TIMES
THE TIMES 1 of 2 a satire on political rivalry between the Pitt and Temple factions Date: 1762

ART / HOGARTH / ROAST BEEF
THE GATE OF CALAIS, OR, O THE ROAST BEEF OF OLD ENGLAND a satire on the well-fed English versus the poorly- fed French Date: 1749

COSTUME SATIRE 1796
A caricature of the extravagant fashions of the period Date: 1796

Beau Brummell Satire
BEAU BRUMMELL An impertinent young man notes the demise of the formerly famously handsome (but now fat) dandy, George Beau Brummell. Date: 1778 - 1840

Weird Hats of 1819
MONSTROSITIES OF 1819 & 1820 A satire on the fashion victims of the day, including various hideous hats. Date: 1819 - 1820

WOMENS RIGHTS / SATIRE
Women sit in judgement on a breach-of-promise case Date: 1849

Cartoons, Improving landscapes
Cartoons, Improving Landscapes, with the addition of smoky chimney-stacks, gas towers, soap factories and drainage pipes. Date: 1880

THE CAT DID IT
The cat did it ! The cats are to blame for every breakage... Date: 1849

REVOLUTION SATIRE 1794
French Revolutionary satire : Les Animaux Rares. Date: circa 1794

Cartoon, Mr Briggss Pleasures of Housekeeping -- Irish labourers employed to build a house. Date: circa 1850

Cartoon, The Tourists Guide
Cartoon, THE TOURISTS GUIDE, a satirical comment on the growing number of climbing accidents. Date: 1867

CECIL RHODES / SOURIRE 00
A perfidious John Bull in league with Jack the Ripper - this is the true nature of England. Satire on Cecil Rhodes and Chamberlain at the time of the Entente Cordiale. Date: 1853 - 1902

SURGERY CURES INFIDELITY
SATIRE:RESULTS OF ETHER - surgery as a cure-all: infidelity cured by replacing much-pierced heart Date: 1847

SURGERY CURES STUPIDITY
SATIRE:RESULTS OF ETHER - surgery as a cure-all: young mans stupidity cured by replacing straw head- stuffing with a brain! Date: 1847

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