Showing posts with label punch cartoons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label punch cartoons. Show all posts
Sunday, 21 November 2010
Skeleton Crew
I can't be bothered to check what was happening with fishing fleets and Newfoundland in 1890 to prompt this grim image [caption: "THE VICTIMS OF HIGH SPEED. The dream of an anxious captain after tearing across the fishing-grounds of Newfoundland"] but I like it nonetheless - another flight of fancy from Punch ...
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
Valentine's Day
VALENTINE'S DAY
By rights, I should save this until February, but I will have forgotten by then. A great Punch cartoon from 1844, with a strong hint of the fantastical about it, that doubtless - if I knew anything about the subject - could be placed in a long line of people-animal drawings.
By rights, I should save this until February, but I will have forgotten by then. A great Punch cartoon from 1844, with a strong hint of the fantastical about it, that doubtless - if I knew anything about the subject - could be placed in a long line of people-animal drawings.
Friday, 11 September 2009
Punch drunk!
PUNCH DRUNK!Continuing the (not very convincing) food and drink theme for this month's blog entries, I've started a new project. I have a whole run of Punch reprints mouldering on my shelves (1841-91) and I'm putting the full-page cartoons online.
The first volume (July-Dec 1841) is now available here
http://punchproject.blogspot.com/
and I plan to add additional volumes, when I get the chance.
The cartoons, although visually engaging, are largely satirical/political in nature and Victorian politics is quite beyond me - most feature Robert Peel or Lord Melbourne in this period, but I have difficulty telling the difference between even them. If anyone wants to add comments that would enable me to put some contextual information, please do so!
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