WWI Punch Cartoons (1915-1916)

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Cover of Punch Magazine

Punch, the magazine of humour and satire, ran from 1841 until its closure in 2002. A very British institution with an international reputation for its witty and irreverent take on the world, it published the work of some of the greatest comic writers (Thackeray, P G Wodehouse and P J O’Rourke among others) and gave us the cartoon as we know it today. Its political cartoons swayed governments while its social cartoons captured life in the 19th and 20th centuries. The world’s finest cartoonists appeared in Punch: such great names as Tenniel, E H Shepard, Fougasse, and Pont.

Darvill's Rare Prints is pleased to offer the following original cartoons from 1844-1916.
The sheet size is about 8 x 10 3/4 inches and the cartoons from 1915-1916 are printed on one side of the paper, unless noted. Please click on a thumbnail to see an enlarged view. Condition is mostly excellent with slight corner or edge wear. The earlier cartoons from the 1840s and 1850s may have some foxing and/or light image transference.

THESE ARE ORIGINAL PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI CARTOONS
FROM THE YEARS STATED, NOT REPRODUCTIONS!

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THE GOD IN THE CART
(An Unrehearsed Effect.)

Turkey. "I'm getting a bit fed up with this. I shall kick soon."

Austria. "Well, I was thinking of lying down."

(Jan. 6, 1915)

$20

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AS BETWEEN FRIENDS

British Lion."Please don't look at me like that, Sam. You're not the eagle I'm up against."

(Jan. 6, 1915)

[OPPOSITE SIDE HAS A REVIEW OF
"DAVID COPPERFIELD"]

THE PATRIOTIC BURGLAR

(Jan. 6, 1915)

$10

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THE EUPHEMISTS

Kaiser: "I say, how are you going to explain away the surrender of your army corps in the Caucusus?"

Sultan of Turkey: "Nothing simpler. I shall say, 'Our gallant troops determined to embarrass the enemy's commissariat, and carried out their object with overwhelming success."

Kaiser: "Splendid! Couldn't have put it better myself."

Sultan: "My dear boy, we were in the business ages and ages before you were thought of."

(Jan. 13, 1915)

$20

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THE BREAKING OF THE SPELL
STEINBACH, JANUARY 3, 1915

(Jan. 13, 1915)

$20

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THE WHITEWASHERS

Kaiser: "Lay it on, my worthy professors—lay it on thick! I want every drop of it."

(Jan. 20, 1915)

$20

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AN AWFUL WARNING

Austria (to Rumania): Now, be careful! Remember what I did to Serbia!"

(Jan. 20, 1915)

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THE DISSEMBLERS

Emperor of Austria: "Now what do we really want to say?"
Sultan of Turkey: "Well, of course we couldn't say that; not on his birthday."

(Jan. 27, 1915)

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THE FLIGHT THAT FAILED

The Emperor: "What, No babes, Sirrah?"
The Murderer: "Alas! Sire, none."
The Emperor: "Well, then, no babes, no Iron Crosses."
[Exit murderer, discouraged.]

(Jan. 27, 1915)

$20

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THE RETURN OF THE RAIDER

Kaiser: "Well, I am surprised! "
Tirpitz: "So were we."

(Feb. 3, 1915)

$20

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WHO FORBIDS THE BANDS?

["A band revives memories, it quickens association, it opens and unites the hearts of men more surely than any other appeal can, and in this respect it aids recruiting perhaps more than any other agency."—Mr. Rudyard Kipling at the Mansion House meeting promoted by the Recruiting Bands Committee.]

(Feb. 3, 1915)

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THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS

Turkish Camel: "Where to?"
German Officer: "Egypt."
Turkish Camel: "Guess again."

(Feb. 10, 1915)

$20

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THE OUTCAST
A PLACE IN THE SHADOW

(Feb. 10, 1915)

$20

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THE RESOURCEFUL LOVER

Teuton Troubadour (serenading the fair Columbia): "If she won't listen to my love-songs, I'll try her with a brick."

(Feb. 17, 1915)

$20

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SOUND AND FURY

Kaiser: "Is all my high seas fleet safely locked up?"
Admiral von Tirpitz:"Practically all, Sire."
Kaiser:"Then let the starvation of England begin!"

(Feb. 17, 1915)

$20

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RIDERS OF THE WIND

John Prospero Bull
"Ariel, thy charge exactly is perform'd; but there's more work."
The Tempest, Act I., Sc. 2

(Feb. 24, 1915)

$25

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RUNNING AMOK

German Bull: "I know I'm making a rotten exhibition of myself; but I shall tell everybody I was goaded into it."

(Feb. 24, 1915)

$20

THE FOLLOWING 11 SHEETS ARE FROM THE SUPPLEMENT TO "PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI" FROM MARCH 3, 1915 TITLED "OUR VOLUNTEER ARMY".
EACH PAGE IS PRINTED ON BOTH SIDES, AS OPPOSED TO THE USUAL PRINTS FROM 1915 WHICH ARE BLANK ON THE REVERSE. THE REGULAR 1915 PRINTS FOLLOW THIS SECTION, IN DATE ORDER.

(We have not typed the subtext to each cartoon, only the titles.)

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