Satire Collection (page 18)

Women at War / Satire
A satire on women at war. One female soldiers is redoing her make-up on parade. Date: 1927

Cartoon, Making progress. A young woman sitting at the piano tells her friend: My voice is coming on -- I just had a complaint from the tenant on the sixth floor ! Date: 1919

Cartoon, Montmartre by Night, WW1
Cartoon, Montmartre by night -- a woman thinks to herself, this is what our enemies call the Modern Babylon ! Date: 1918

Front cover, La Baionnette
Front cover design, La Baionnette, looking forward to the time when women get the vote. Date: 1919

Cartoon, Their Theatre, WW1
Cartoon, Their Theatre. The French make fun of what they conceive to be the German ideal of beauty, as portrayed by a stage actress being prepared for her entrance by her dresser. Date: 1917

Satire on Education Act
WHO SHALL EDUCATE? OR, OUR BABES IN THE WOOD The church battles against dissent for rights over education, while children themselves are ignored Date: 1853

Cartoon, Parisian woman out shopping, WW1
Cartoon showing an elegant Parisian woman in a very tall hat, out shopping for fabrics. She asks for a large amount of material for a new hat, in spite of wartime austerity. Date: 1917

Cartoon, Croesus, WW1
Cartoon, Croesus (Cresus). A comment on the food shortage in France during the First World War - a man hides his egg in a safe

Cartoon, Still Life, WW1
Cartoon, Still Life, showing a foaming tankard of beer, with some saloon-bar strategists in the background. Date: 1916

Country Inn / Election
Passengers board the coach as it is about to depart. An English sailor prepares to knock off a Frenchmans hat who is dejected at the news of a recent British naval victory Date: 1747

Cartoon, Modern artist and visitor
Cartoon, modern artist showing his abstract painting to a visitor. She says she likes it; he replies: I can tell you re a connoisseur ! Date: 1919

Cartoon, German Kultur, WW1
Cartoon, German Kultur or the cultivated truth during the First World War, showing a blindfolded allegorical female figure with flames rising around her. Date: 1915

Cartoon, The peaceful ex-scarecrow, WW1
Cartoon, the peaceful ex-scarecrow, a satirical comment on the mistake of believing in a peaceful relationship between France and Germany during the First World War. Date: 1915

Satire on ethics of Louis Pasteurs experiments
A moral dilemma. Satire on the ethics of Louis Pasteurs experiments on animals. Date: 1889

Europe in Arms 1932
Armed Europe can t see its way to making even a 25% cutback in armaments Date: 1932

Germans Name the Guilty
France (Delcasse) and Russia (Isvolski) are blamed by the Germans for plunging Europe into World War One, despite the peaceful aspirations of Germany Date: September 1914

War is a Business
English Foreign Minister Sir Edward Grey is depicted by the Germans as acting on the principle that War is a business like any other Date: August 1914

Brother Workers Fight
Brother-workers......now you must fight each other ! Date: 1907

France and the Kaiser
France is menaced by the war-mongering Kaiser Date: 1911

Caricature, Rupert of Bavaria, WW1
Caricature of Prince Rupert, Crown Prince of Bavaria, looking rather glum during the First World War. Date: 1918

Cartoon, The Double Monarch, WW1
Cartoon, The Double Monarch. Franz Josef, Austrian emperor (1830-1916), asks: When will it be over, then, this war? Date: 1915

John Skelton - 1797 Eng
John Skelton (?1460 - 1529) - English poet and clergyman, known for his caustic satire

John Skelton - Woodcut - ROD
John Skelton (?1460 - 1529) - English poet and clergyman, known for his caustic satire

Cartoon, German relations with the Middle East, WW1
Cartoon, German relations with the Middle East, showing a German soldier struggling with two ladies of the harem. Date: 1918

America, home of $$$
America - where the dollars come from! Date: 1924

Boyars Beards Trimmed
In his efforts to introduce Western customs into Russia, Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards. This satire shows him trimming the beard of a Boyar. Date: 1698

Caroline & Bergami / 1819
The Modern Genius of History at her Toilet Satire on Caroline of Brunswick and Bergami Date: circa 1819

Cartoon, Old man at the cinema, WW1
Cartoon, Old man at the cinema, watching a heroic war film. He turns round to the soldiers seated behind him, saying that they too have the chance to take part in such glorious scenes. 1917

Religious Satire / 1653
Satire on the religious dispute - anti-Catholic. Date: 1653

Aberdeen Snowballed
George Hamilton Gordon, fourth earl of ABERDEEN Statesman - but not, it seems, a very popular one; as prime minister during the Crimea War he was much criticised Date: 1784 - 1860

Hugh Peters (Satire)
HUGH PETERS chaplain to Oliver Cromwell, satirised as a preacher of blasphemy, rebellion and heresy Date: 1598 - 1660

Gounod / Sambourne / Punch
CHARLES GOUNOD French musician and composer - a satire on his opera, Faust - Chacun a son Gounod Date: 1818 - 1893

Sir James Matthew Barrie, caricature in Punch
SIR JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE (1860 - 1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist, best known for writing Peter Pan, satirised in Punch Date: 1897

Annie Besant / Phil May
ANNIE BESANT English theosophist and Indian political leader, with Madame Blavatsky and an apparition of Mahatmaism above her Date: 1847 - 1933

Cartoon, How Many Lumps? WW1
Cartoon, How many lumps? The French comic actress Cecile Sorel serves her guests, including a bearded man who has been fighting in the war. On the left sits the French philosopher Voltaire. Date: 1917

Mania / Director Down
A former railway director is reduced to the humble occupation of sweeping the streets : a satire on the rise and fall of railway speculators Date: 1846

Browning Punch Sambourne
ROBERT BROWNING the English poet in one of Punchs Fancy Portraits, in a satire on his epic poem, The Ring and the Book Date: 1812 - 1889

Carlyle Fun Satire
THOMAS CARLYLE Scottish philosopher and historian: a satire on his pessimistic social criticism Date: 1795 - 1881

Cartoon, The Martians, WW1
Cartoon, The Martians. During the First World War, the residents of Mars complain to their neighbouring planet about the noise, and ask them to be more considerate. Date: 1918

Cartoon, The Interview, WW1
Cartoon, The Interview. A professor on another planet gives a journalist his views on life on Earth. On the subject of the First World War, the journalist asks: Who will be the winner, people or fire

Satire / Woman of Mind
My wife is a woman of mind Date: 1847

Satire / New Woman
The German New Woman Date: 1882

Brummell / Jesses / Boy
GEORGE BRYAN (BEAU) BRUMMELL English dandy and friend of the Prince of Wales. A satire on himself as a tearful cherub in 1837. Date: 1778 - 1840

Boer / Cartoon / Uk General
CARTOONS A British general on reconnaissance during the Boer War discovers a mountain. Satire on British incompetence. Date: 1900

Cartoon, Walking past an accident. Its a housemaid who was hit by a taxi. Oh, as if the servant problem wasn t bad enough already ! Date: 1919

Coalition Satire / 1783
A satire on coalition government Date: 1783

Satire on The Yellow Book
Punchs satirical view of the fin-de-siecle publishing phenomenon, The Yellow Book, whose art editor was Aubrey Beardsley caricatured here

Cartoon, and Officers? WW1
Cartoon, and Officers? A military man seeks a toilet appropriate to his rank. Date: 1918

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