Satire Collection (#8)

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

Cartoon, Atlas with Kaiser Wilhelm on a globe, WW1
Cartoon showing Kaiser Wilhelm II jumping around on top of a globe, supported by the mythological figure of Atlas, at the start of the First World War. Date: 1914

Jean Debry coat 1799
Satire on mens fashion. Mr Skeffington wearing a Jean Debry coat, named after Jean Debry, president of the National Convention in Revolutionary France. Date: 1799

Cartoon, The Glorious Twelfth -- the Bird to be brought down this August being not a Grouse but a Mad Eagle

The Debutante by H. M. Bateman (Tennis at Wimbledon)
Humorous illustration by the master of social satire, H. M. Bateman showing a new tennis player on the famous centre court at Wimbledon, feeling very much as if all eyes are upon her. Date: 1926

Cartoon, Knights of the Air, WW1
First World War cartoon entitled Knights of the Air, showing Kaiser Wilhelm II and Field Marshal Von Hindenburg with a scene of destruction behind them

Cartoon, Critics from Shadowland, WW1
Cartoon, Critics from Shadowland, showing Kaiser Wilhelm I, Helmut von Moltke and Count Otto von Bismarck, as they appeared during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1

Cartoon, His Masters Voice, WW1
Cartoon, His Masters Voice, showing Kaiser Wilhelm as a German dachshund looking back at a British bulldog inside the amplifier of a wind-up gramophone

Cartoon, Kaiser Wilhelm and Russian Bear, WW1
First World War cartoon on a postcard, showing Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany on the branch of a tree, looking worried as a Russian Bear starts climbing up towards him

Cartoon satirising German soldiers, WW1
Cartoon satirising German soldiers during the First World War: Goot gracious me! Here kom der 16th Royal Scots. Date: 1914-1915

Cartoon, Siege Guns of Rhetoric, WW1
Cartoon, Siege Guns of Rhetoric, or how our politicians are helping the work of the services

Cartoon, More Hands Wanted, WW1
Cartoon, More Hands Wanted

In Marble Halls - Jobbing actors chatting in a theatre bar
" In Marble Halls" - Jobbing actors standing in a theatre bar discussing their fortune, both successful and not

A horse disgusted to find she is eating HUMAN
" Bad Stable Manners" - Eating with Ones Mouth Open! Dobbin disgusted to find out that instead of oats she has in fact been eating HUMAN

Satirical cartoon, The March of Intellect, showing a street scene with balloons in the sky above. 1828

Tolpuddle Martyrs
The Tolpuddle Martyrs caricature, April 1834, the Dorchester Unionists imploring mercy of their king Date: 1834

Government Legislation
Conservative Party political cartoon, Prime Minister Arthur James Balfour talking to John Bull about the proliferation of government legislation and acts of Parliament, 1906 Date: 1906

French satirical cartoon - criticism of Second Boer War (1899-1902)

Edward VII lampooned with a Chastity Belt
French postcard lampooning British Monarch King Edward VII, by picturing him in association with a Chastity Belt

Hobble skirt fashion victim
A fashionable ladys vision and gait is impaired by her enormous hat and tight hobble skirt. A chance encounter with a gentlemen friend, also out walking his dog, saves the day. Date: 1911

Cartoon - Joke about Officer - WW1 era
Teacher: " No Pencil again? What would you think of a soldier who went into battle without his gun?" Bobby: " I d think he was an officer." circa 1915

Satirical cartoon with Turkish and German soldiers, WW1
A satirical cartoon showing a fat German soldier strangling a thin Turkish soldier during the First World War

Anti-British cartoon, withdrawal from Gallipoli, WW1
An Anti-British cartoon by a German cartoonist, showing an English sailor-sealion being ejected from Gallipoli by a Turkish soldier during the First World War. Date: 1916

American election cartoon with Uncle Sam voting
Cartoon by Clifford K Berryman entitled Anxious Moments, showing Uncle Sam voting in an American presidential election, about to drop his voting paper into the ballot box

Anti-German cartoon, Germans at Verdun, WW1
An anti-German cartoon by a Belgian cartoonist showing the German Kaiser Wilhelm II and his son, Crown Prince Wilhelm, having difficulties on the battlefield at Verdun, north eastern France

Satirical cartoon on poverty, WW1
A satirical cartoon by the German artist George Grosz, showing three people living in a slum

Howitzer shell, Iron Ration, WW1
A 15 inch Howitzer shell on the ground, during the First World War, with the ironic words Iron Ration painted on it. Date: 1914-1918

The Deformito-Mania
Satirical cartoon on what Punch calls the " taste for the Monstrous" by the general public, encouraged particularly by the exhibits at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly

Morocco - A man from a Tabor (Moorish battalion)
A Satire of a Moorish Moroccan soldier from a tabor. A tabor is a Moroccan military term used to describe a formation of three of four goums

Asquith & Lloyd George in the boxing ring by Bairnsfather
Humorous satirical illustration by Bruce Bairnsfather showing the politicians, Asquith and Lloyd George, both of whom served as Prime Minister during World War I, in a boxing ring facing each other

th Huxley / Sambourne 1881
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY A satire on the English scientists role as Inspector of Fisheries

Mahatma Gandhi cartoon
A cartoon on the subject of Mahatma Gandhi, Indian nationalist and spiritual leader, showing him making international calls on a telephone, with bags of money at his side

Catholic Emancipation
A British battering Ram preparing the way for a Popish Bull - A satire on the pressure for Catholic emancipation, which led to an Act of Parliament in 1829

A Peep at the Premier: The Duke of Wellington examines a caricature of himself as a policeman and of his friend Eldon as a radical

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