Satire Collection (#7)

Cartoon, The French Serpentine Dance (Panama Scandal)
Cartoon, The French Serpentine Dance -- a satirical comment on the Panama Scandal, showing the French Republic dancing in a dress labelled with the words bribery, blackmail and anarchy. Date: 1893

Money no object. Satire on marrying for money Date: circa 1850s

Emancipated women of America, satire 1851
Emancipated women of America, as depicted by the illustrator of Alice. Date: 1851

Cartoon, A Wilde Idea (Oscar Wilde)
Cartoon, A Wilde Idea -- Oscar Wilde, Irish-born playwright, depicted as a French soldier (a reference to the fact that he first wrote his controversial play, Salome, in French). Date: 1892

Anna Zinkiesen - Mariegold - Mariegold Broadcasts - Soon - it may not matter much - Do
Anna Zinkiesen - Mariegold - " Mariegold Broadcasts" - " Soon - it may not matter much - Do away with Men - as such!" Date: 1933

Cartoon - Disraeli and Victoria - Dangers of Imperialism
Cartoon - Benjamin Disraeli and Queen Victoria brave the dangerous waters of Imperialism cheered and jeered by the previous Kings and Queens of England on the far bank of the river.... Date: 1876

Propaganda cartoon - The Kaiser shocked at War Developments as he reads his paper in the morning in bed

Fashion for large hats, roller skating and hobble skirts
Comic postcard - satire on the penchant for women to wear large and enveloping hats during this period. Also this card encompasses the fashion for Hobble skirts and roller skating! Date: circa 1911

Suffragette Madonna - Crop of 1910 - Anti-Suffrage card
Anti-Suffrage card - Suffragette Madonna - Crop of 1910 - The man of the House holding the baby whilst his wife goes out and campaigns for womens rights

Illustration, Gullivers Travels
Illustration to Gullivers Travels, showing Gulliver captured and tied down in Lilliput. circa 1860s

Ricardo Palma (1833-1919). Peruvian author, scholar, librarian and politician. Portrait. Engraving. Colored

Fishing for Souls, 1614, by Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (c
Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (c. 1589-1662). Dutch painter. Fishing for Souls, 1614. Detail. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

Jonathan Swift (1667 1745). Gullivers Travels, 1726. Illu
Jonathan Swift (1667 1745). Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer. Gullivers Travels, 1726. Illustration by Andre Devambez (edition, 1911)

Japanese Anti-Chinese Propaganda - John Bull and Uncle Sam
Japanese Anti-Chinese Propaganda featuring a representation of Japan (as a military General)

The Reckoning
THE RECKONING. Pan German: Monstrous, I call it. Why, its fully a quarter of what WE would have made THEM pay if WE D won. Supposed German reaction to war reparations after the First World War

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky portrayed as an imposter
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky(1831-1891). Russian mystic and writer portrayed in the last year, satirised by her detractors

Anti-German cartoon, map of Europe, WW1
The tailors of strafe street

French Theatre -- Sottie du Prince des Sotz
Sottie du Prince des Sotz (Foolery from the Prince of Fools), by Pierre Gringore (Gringoire). Showing a musician in a red and grey fools costume, standing on one leg and playing the mandolin

Comus, Themis and Momus, Greek gods

Cartoon, The New Dance Mistress, WW1
Cartoon, The New Dance Mistress, showing an Austro-Hungarian or German officer in eastern costume introducing a plump German woman, Fraulein Gans (Miss Goose)

Cartoon, Things that matter, WW1
Cartoon, Things that matter -- Brain. Crown Prince: It doesn t matter what Papa or Michaelis says. After all, we are the real brain(s) of the Empire

Old Bill car mascot on a metal plinth, WW1
Old Bill car mascot. Produced by Louis Lejeune (Mascots) Ltd, on a metal plinth. Copyright No. R2669204. Bairnsfather Ware. Date: circa 1919

Cartoon, Kaiser Wilhelm II in civilian dress, WW1
Cartoon, The Last Uniform of All, depicting Kaiser Wilhelm II in civilian dress

Satirical cartoon of Kaiser Wilhelm II, WW1
The Little Tin God, satirical cartoon of Kaiser Wilhelm II at the start of the First World War

German cartoon, three allies in the stocks, WW1
First World War cartoon, showing the German view of the allies France, Britain and Russia, seen here in the stocks, with lists of the territory claimed by the Central Powers. Date: December 1917

Anti-German cartoon, Made in Germany, WW1
Made in Germany, an anti-German First World War cartoon, showing a long-legged Kaiser Wilhelm II running from France to Germany with a flask of wine

Cartoon, The Censor at Work, WW1
Cartoon, The Censor at Work as he is seen by the Press, with a quotation from The Taming of the Shrew: Heres snip, and nip, and cut, and slish, and slash, Like to a censer in a barbers shop

Cartoon, Kaiser Wilhelm II and Abdul Hamid, WW1
Cartoon, The Expert, showing Kaiser Wilhelm II on horseback with massacred civilians at his feet and a sword dripping with blood

Three cartoons at the start of the First World War: at the top, a comment on needing another war to collect the debts for this one

Cartoon, body parts after the battle, WW1
First World War cartoon entitled After the Battle, showing German soldiers trying to match up body parts before loading them onto a train. Date: 1914-1918

Sensible Roosevelt - A whipping-post for wife-beaters. Cover illustration showing man wearing mask whipping another man manacled to whipping post, as a woman with arm in sling looks

German holding up the other Central Powers
Russian caricature from WWI era showing Germany struggling to support the failing efforts of their allies, the other Central Powers, The Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria (?). Date: circa 1917

The Cuckold Hat
A new type of hat - suitable for use by married men... the cuckold hat! Date: circa 1910s

One Ass is as Good as Another
Comic Postcard - One Ass is as Good as Another - This lovely lady - a vision in purple

She Was Only a Gardeners Daughter
" She was only a gardeners daughter, but she knew how to handle a rake." A gaudily-depicted woman of humble origins seduces a " rake" - a womanising young man. 1928

?Dandies of 1817 & Monstrosities of 1818? - Cruikshank
?Dandies of 1817 & Monstrosities of 1818?. 1818. Coloured etching by George Cruikshank, published by H Humphry, St James?s St, 1818. Part 2 of a series of etchings

Cartoon, Mr Punch painting a portrait of Shakespeare
Cartoon -- Don t you think it is just a little out of drawing, Mr Burnand

Scene from Molieres play, Le Misanthrope, first performed in 1666. 17th century

Angus Macpherson at Lords - changing fashions
Angus Macpherson at Lord s, 1875 and 1930

Sisowath, King of Cambodia shaking the trunk of Fallieres
Satirical postcard showing Sisowath (1840-1927), King of Cambodia shaking the trunk of French President Armand Fallieres (18411931) who is in the form of a benevolent Sacred Elephant

Cartoon, Gladstone punishing Randolph Churchill
Cartoon, William Gladstone (1809-1898), Liberal Prime Minister, punishing his younger political colleague, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill (1849-1895), for causing trouble. 1883

Modes Pour Rire by Charles Vernier -- A woman (left) asks her ladys maid (right) whether the crinoline she has brought will be full enough. She doesn t want to be ridiculed for being too flat

La Crinolonomanie by Charles Vernier -- A fashionable young woman visits a blacksmith for repairs to the iron ring of her crinoline frame. circa 1850

Romeo and Juliet, balcony scene
Juliet hoisting her true love Romeo up in a basket. Date: 1919

Protestant Reformation. Germany. Satire against the sale of
Protestant Reformation. Germany. Facsimile of an engraving of the period (16th century). Satire against the sale of indulgences. Universal History, 1885. Colored

History of medicine. Dentist. Middle Ages. Satire. Engraving
History of medicine. Dentist (barbers or general physicians). Middle Ages. Satire. Engraving of a collection of comic work. 12th century. Colored

Roman sarcophagus. About 140 AD. Marriage of Dionysus and Adriadne. Detail Adriane in the carriage. Glyptothek. Munich. Germany

Aristophanes (c. 446 BC c. 386 BC). Cover of his comedies
Aristophanes (c. 446 BC c. 386 BC). Comic playwright of ancient Athens. Cover of his comedies. Edition in Leiden (Lugdunum Batavorum), 1624. Library of Catalonia. Barcelona. Spain

House of Fools of Love by Francisco Quevedo. Illustration
Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas (1580-1645). Spanish writer. House of Fools of Love. Illustration. Printed in 1895. Private collection

Mr Punch. 19th century

Cartoon, Bubbles, WW1
Cartoon, Bubbles, showing Kaiser Wilhelm in a parody of Millais painting for Pears Soap. 1914-1918

Cartoon, tailoring for actors, J L Toole
Cartoon, tailoring for actors -- Actors pieces may be made up nowadays with every consideration to peculiarity of figure

Caricature of Ambrose Maynard, theatrical agent, depicted as a parody of Shakespeare. 1883

Caricature of Queen Victoria as a shepherdess with lambs and an animated pot of mint sauce

Caricature, Oscar Wilde as Romeo
Caricature, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) in the role of Romeo -- an American newspaper had recently reported that this was about to happen. 1883

Caricature of Arthur Sullivan and Ws Gilbert -- The Latest Converts to Aestheticism. A reference to their latest operetta, Patience, a satire on the aesthetic movement. 1881

Cartoon, German women as seen by the French, WW1
Cartoon, German intellectual women as seen by the French. Date: 1916

Education Act 1870 / Punch
OBSTRUCTIVES Comment on the Education Act of 1870, which set up locally elected school boards to provide for adequate basic schooling in all areas Date: 1870

Cartoon, German officer (Boche Faces), WW1
Cartoon, Boche Faces. A group of German officers, looking rather stolid and described as the asphyxiating brutes of humanity. Date: 1915

Cartoon, Waking up Germania, WW1
Cartoon, Waking up Germania. After the war, Madame Germania must pay the bill for all the damage she has done. The waiter is a macabre, thin man with a skull for his head. Date: 1918

Cartoon, Hearing cannon fire in Constantinople, WW1
Cartoon, Hearing cannon fire in Constantinople, showing the ladies of the Turkish Harem alarmed by the sound of the guns of Gallipoli - likewise the Sultan himself! Date: 1915

Cartoon, Two young Frenchwomen, WW1
Two women in winter coats which echo the fashionable silhouette: high waisted, voluminous skirts & high all round collars. Hats now have high crowns & narrow brims. Date: 1918

William Gladstone as twins
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE (1809-1898) as both First Lord of theTreasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer, ensuring a single- minded approach to finance

French cartoon, anarchist newspapers
French political cartoon -- Fin du trimestre (End of term) -- a woman is upset to see what she thinks are anarchistic newspapers in her house. 19th century

Cartoon, The false shepherd, WW1
Cartoon, The false shepherd, showing a man posing as a shepherd, with a sheepdog and a flock of sheep, making notes on local aircraft activities. Date: 1915

Cartoon, Espionage? Snooping? WW1
Cartoon, Espionage? Snooping? A German couple and their daughter go for an innocent country walk, but gradually metamorphose into a concrete platform, a camera and a telephone! Date: 1915

Grotesque head, illustration by William Heath Robinson (The Works of Mr Francis Rabelais, 1921). Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J. C

An Ideal Husband, Oscar Wilde caricature
A caricature of playwright Oscar Wilde, acting the part of An Ideal Husband when it was playing at the Haymarket Theatre. Date: 1929

Cartoon, The Cow Pock, or, the Wonderful Effects of the New Inoculation! by James Gillray

Cartoon, John Bull taking a Luncheon, or, British Cooks cramming Old Grumble-Gizzard with Bonne Chere, by James Gillray. Celebrate Britains victory at Aboukir Bay in August 1798

Cartoon, Promis d Horrors of the French Invasion, or, Forcible Reasons for negotiating a Regicide Peace, Vide, The Authority of Edmund Burke, by James Gillray

Cartoon, Anti-Saccharites, or John Bull and his Family leaving off the use of Sugar, by James Gillray

WW1 - Cartoon - German gun Big Bertha
WW1 - A satirical cartoon illustrating the German gun personified as Big Bertha attacking the city of Paris

Oxeye daisy flower fairies wearing flower hats, plucking petals.. Handcolored steel engraving by C

Cartoon, German women gossipping, WW1
Cartoon, German women gossipping about a diner in a restaurant -- He must be a horrible French spy! Hes eating his veal without jam! Date: 1915

Cartoon, Boche idealism, WW1
Cartoon, Boche idealism -- a fat German with food and drink on the table and portraits of two German philosophers (Leibniz and Kant) on the wall. Date: 1915

Cartoon, A dry telegram, WW1
Cartoon, A dry telegram, showing a chef (a spy) writing to his boss, that after eight days the boxes of rubbish have contained nothing of diplomatic interest. Date: 1915

Cartoon, The Senegalese in the Dardanelles, WW1
Cartoon, The Senegalese in the Dardanelles, showing a soldier from Senegal (then part of the French Empire) hitting a Turkish soldier (fighting for the Central Powers) with his rifle. Date: 1915

WW1 - What did you do in the Great War, Daddy?
Child: " And is the War really over, Daddy? Father: " Practically, My Boy." Child: " Then may I ask you a question about it which I couldn t ask till it WAS over

The Road to Epsom by Thomas Rowlandson
" Those red-cheeked, guffawing Cockneys, who sreamed to Epsom in coach, carriage, wheelbarrow, donkey cart

Cartoon, Being Unable to Take Paris, WW1
Cartoon, Being Unable to Take Paris, showing Crown Prince Wilhelm during the First World War, taking anything else he can lay his hands

Exit tango: satire on the end of a dance craze, 1914
Satirical comment from Punch Magazine on the end of the tango craze

Cartoon, The Weight On His Mind, WW1
Cartoon, The Weight On His Mind, showing Kaiser Wilhelm II squashed down by the heavy weight of Russia on top of his head in the early days of the First World War. Date: September 1914

Cartoon, German sword with loot from Belgium, WW1
Cartoon showing a German sword with two moneybags impaled on it, representing loot taken from Brussels and Liege during the invasion of Belgium in the early days of the First World War

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