The Punch Project: September 2009

Wednesday, 30 September 2009

Jan-June 1843, p197 - The Original Industrious Flea (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.LXXVII)

ARTIST:
John Leech

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CAPTION:
THE ORIGINAL INDUSTRIOUS FLEA.

(Kindly suggested by SIR EDWARD SUGDEN)

Jan-June 1843, p187 - After the originals in the Queen's collection (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.LXXVI)

ARTIST:
H.G.Hine

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CAPTION:
AFTER THE ORIGINALS IN THE QUEEN'S COLLECTION

OTHER:
£6000000

CHINESE RANSOM

TORYISM

EXCHEQUER BILLS

What's o clock

PROCLAM

LIGHT GOLD

GOLD DUST

LANCETORSE [?]

INCOME TAX

1000000

INCOME TAX ESTIMATED
£3000000

INCOME TAX REALISED
£6954000..2.[?]

Jan-June 1843, p177 - A Scene at Greenwich Fair (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.LXXV)

ARTIST:
John Leech

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CAPTION:
A SCENE AT GREENWICH FAIR.

A Game of " Knock 'em down."

OTHER:
GLACIARIUM ON SLIDING SCALE

TO BE SEEN HERE
THE GATES OF SOMNAUTH

Tuesday, 22 September 2009

Jan-June 1843, p167 - Post-Office robbery (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.LXXIV)

ARTIST:
unknown

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CAPTION:
POST-OFFICE ROBBERY

OTHER:
DOWNING STREET

PARLIAMENT STREET

ONE PENNY

NEW POST OFFICE

1D ALL THE WAY

CONDUCTOR NO.1

ROWLAND HILL

Jan-June 1843, p157 - Punch received at the Tuileries (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.LXXIII)

ARTIST:
unknown

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CAPTION:
PUNCH RECEIVED AT THE TUILERIES

Jan-June 1843, p147 - Sancho Panza tossed in a blanket (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.LXXII)

ARTIST:
unknown

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CAPTION:
SANCHO PANZA TOSSED IN A BLANKET

OPTION:
Mr Stansfield

Mr BRIGHT

PUBLIC OPINION

Dear Mr. Bright

Jan-June 1843, p137 - Portraits of the Writers and Artists of Punch (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.LXXI)

ARTIST:
H.G.Hine

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CAPTION:
PORTRAITS OF THE WRITERS AND ARTISTS OF PUNCH.

TAKEN EXPRESSLY FOR THE FIRST OF APRIL

OTHER:
KANT

MONEY BOX

AQUA FORTIS

VINEGAR

Jan-June 1843, p127 - A Scene from Romeo and Juliet (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.LXX)

ARTIST:
unknown

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CAPTION:
A SCENE FROM ROMEO AND JULIET —
AS PLAYED IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS

NURSE, by the D—e of W—n.
PETER, by L—d B—m.
Nurse. — My Fan, Peter.

Jan-June 1843, p117 - Brougham and the Civic Giants (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.LXIX)

ARTIST:
unknown

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CAPTION:
BROUGHAM AND THE CIVIC GIANTS

"A few nights ago he made dreadful sparring with his old civic friends, the Guildhall Giants." - Vide page 116.

Jan-June 1843, p107 - A Pleasant Position (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.LXVIII)

ARTIST:
H.G.Hine

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CAPTION:
A PLEASANT POSITION.

Sketched in the House of Commons, Friday, February 17th, 1843

OTHER:
I am not responsible

GUNPOWDER

ANTI CORN LAW LEAGUE

Jan-June 1843, p97 - The "Christian" Bayadere Worshipping the Idol "Siva" (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.LXVII)

ARTIST:
Kenny Meadows

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CAPTION:
THE "CHRISTIAN" BAYADERE WORSHIPPING THE IDOL "SIVA."

"It implieth no countenance shown to Hindooism by the Governor-General, than whom a more pious Christian did not exist."

Lord Brougham in the House of Peers.

OTHER:
THE INSULT OF 8 HUNDRED YEARS IS AVENGED

Jan-June 1843, p87 - The Charity Ball (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.LXVI)

ARTIST:
John Leech

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CAPTION:
THE CHARITY BALL

Having purchased a ticket for a Charity Ball, you are deluded by the promise of a pretty Partner to waltz, and are victimized as above.

Monday, 21 September 2009

Jan-June 1843, p77 - Punch turned out of France! (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.LXV)

ARTIST:
unknown

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CAPTION:
PUNCH TURNED OUT OF FRANCE!
"I have this moment, in a half-tempest, arrived from Boulogne - thrust from the port by the point of the sword. Yes; it is true - Punch is no longer to be admitted into France." Vide page 75.

OTHER:
MAGNET
for LONDON

PUNCH
Passenger for Boulogne

Jan-June 1843, p67 - The First Tooth (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.LXIV)

ARTIST:
Kenny Meadows

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CAPTION:
THE FIRST TOOTH

Jan-June 1843, p57 - The Queen's Speech (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.LXIII)

ARTIST:
unknown

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CAPTION:
THE QUEEN'S SPEECH

OTHER:
PEACE WITH CHINA

GLORY IN INDIA

GLORIOUS HARVEST

Assurances of Peace from all Powers

Asking for supplies

INCOME TAX

QUEEN'S SPEECH

Jan-June 1843, p47 - The "Milk" of Poor-Law Kindness (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.LXII)

ARTIST:
Kenny Meadows; Ebeneezer Landells

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CAPTION:
THE "MILK" OF POOR-LAW "KINDNESS."

Jan-June 1843, p37 - The "Repeal Farce" (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.LXI)

ARTIST:
unknown

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CAPTION:
THE "REPEAL FARCE;"
OR, MOTHER GOOSE AND THE GOLDEN EGGS

OTHER:
BLIND BEGGAR
Good Entertainment
for Man & Baste

AGITATION

DERRYNANE

REPEAL ASSOCIATION

REPEAL

UNION

RINT

Jan-June 1843, p27 - Private Opinions (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.LX)

ARTIST:
Alfred Crowquill

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CAPTION:
PRIVATE OPTIONS

GENTS. - "Did you ever see a rhinoceros?" - RHINOCEROS. - "Vell, I never seed sich monkeys!"

OTHER:
BITE

ASSES MILK
TAX

Jan-June 1843, p17 - Royal Nursery Rhymes (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.LIX)

ARTIST:
Ebeneezer Landells

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CAPTION:
ROYAL NURSERY RHYMES
Young Mother Hubbard she went to the cupboard
To give her poor dog a bone;
But when she got there the cupboard was bare,
And so the poor dog had none.

OTHER:
TARIFF

INCOME TAX

July-Dec 1842, p253 - The Presentation of the Chinese Ambassador (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.LVIII)

ARTIST:
John Leech; Ebeneezer Landsells

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CAPTION:
THE PRESENTATION OF THE CHINESE AMBASSADOR

July-Dec 1842, p243 - Social Miseries - No.14 (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.LVII)

ARTIST:
unknown

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CAPTION:
HAVING sent up a letter to your landlady, saying you will return to town with your country friend and agent, at half-past six on Monday next; and requesting that she will not fail to have a good fire and warm cup of tea prepared against your arrival. - You return, after a six hours' journey outside the Highflyer, on one of the coldest and wettest days in November, and find that your letter has miscarried, and you and your friend are in the above pretty predicament.

Wednesday, 16 September 2009

July-Dec 1842, p233 Social Miseries - No.13 (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.LVI)

ARTIST:
unknown

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CAPTION:
"Are you the young man who threatened to pull my nose?"

July-Dec 1842, p223 - Belisarius Redivivus (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.LV)

ARTIST:
unknown

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CAPTION:
BELISARIUS REDIVIVUS
"Please to remember the poor."

OTHER:
VAGRANTS
R. PEEL

WHIGGISM

July-Dec 1842, p213 - Illustrations of Humbug - No.1 (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.LIV)

ARTIST:
John Leech; Ebeneezer Landsells

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CAPTION:
"'Tis true there is a slight difference in our ages, but with hearts that love, such considerations become frivolous. The world! Pshaw! Did you but love as I do, you would care but little for its opinion. Oh! say, beautiful being, will you be mine?"

July-Dec 1842, p203 - Fair Rosamond; or The Ashburton Tragedy (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.LIII)

ARTIST:
unknown

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CAPTION:
FAIR ROSAMUND; OR, THE ASHBURTON TRAGEDY

OTHER:
DEPLOMACY

TREATY

WAR

SLAVERY

July-Dec 1842, p193 - Columbus balancing the egg (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.LII)

ARTIST:
H. Heath

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CAPTION:
COLUMBUS BALANCING THE EGG.

OTHER:
CHEAP WAR

CHEAP BREAD

INCOME TAX

REVENUE

CHEAP MATCHES

CHEAP

July-Dec 1842, p183 - The Modern Milo (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.LI)

ARTIST:
unknown

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CAPTION:
THE MODERN MILO.

Vide. "The Life and Times of Feargus O'Connor."

OTHER:
PLACE

BRITISH CONSTITUTION

Universal Suffrage

Vote by Ballot

CHARTER

Tuesday, 15 September 2009

July-Dec 1842, p173 - Social Miseries - No.12 - Gratifying Intelligence (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.L)

ARTIST:
unknown

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CAPTION:
GRATIFYING INTELLIGENCE

Enter CAPTAIN PERCUSSION - Here I am, old fellow - all right - Six to-morrow moring - Wimbledon - brought the barkers - come to keep you company, and scrape some lint while you make your little arrangements in case of accidents, as it's your first duel.

July-Dec 1842, p163 - A Political Parallel (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.XLIX)

ARTIST:
unknown

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CAPTION:
A POLITICAL PARALLEL

"THE Danaides were said to be condemned to fill with water a vessle full of holes, so that the water ran out as soon as poured in - their labour was, therefore, infinite."

OTHER:
Tariff

Income Tax

Duty on Corn

Pension List

Standing Army

Salaries

Church and State

Royal Stables

War in China

July-Dec 1842, p153 - Social Miseries - No.11 - The Pleasures of Folding Doors (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.XLVIII)

ARTIST:
John Leech; Ebeneezer Landells

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CAPTION:
THE PLEASURES OF FOLDING DOORS

Hearing "The Battle of Prague" played with a running accompaniment of - One, and Two, and Three; - and One, and Two, and Three; - and - - - -

July-Dec 1842, p46 - Punch's Guide to the Watering Places

ARTIST:
Alfred Crowquill

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CAPTION:
PUNCH'S GUIDE TO THE WATERING PLACES

1. Blackwall - Quite happy
2. The Nore - A sensation
3. "I love, oh! how I love to ride."
4. "The Sea! The Sea!"
5. "A mother she was and is to me."
6. Inhaling the breeze
7. Salting down
8. Putney nautical - at the wheel
9. "Rest, Weary Traveller."
10. A Yarn

July-Dec 1842, p35 - Social Miseries - No.10 (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.XLVII)

ARTIST:
H.G.Hine; Ebeneezer Landsells

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CAPTION:
MR. DOBBS - "Very good. I intend to have my shutters painted green and that's just the shade I should like."
MRS. D. - "Couldn't you put in a sunflower or two, Mr. Mastic? I'm very partial to yellow."

Monday, 14 September 2009

Jan-June 1842, p251 - Laying Down the Law (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.XLVI)

ARTIST:
unknown

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CAPTION:
LAYING DOWN THE LAW.

OTHER:
DUTY OFF HORSEHAIR

LIGHT SOVEREIGNS

TARIFF

NEWCASTLE

For the protection of LINCOLNSHIRE Geese

Jan-June 1842, p241 - King Stork (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.XLV)

ARTIST:
unknown

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CAPTION:
KING STORK

The frogs of old asked a king from Jupiter, who threw them a log of wood. Discontented with so tame a monarch, they wished for a change, whereupon Zeus sent them a Stork, who immediately ate them up.

OTHER:
SLIDING SCALE

DAY BOOK

Annual Income

TARIFF

THE TILL

LEDGER

PETITION

Jan-June 1842, p231 - Social Miseries - No.9 - The Pursuit of Matrimony under Difficulties (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.XLIV)

ARTIST:
Alfred Crowquill; Ebeneezer Landells

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CAPTION:
THE PURSUIT OF MATRIMONY UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
"Gracious! that must be my guardian's knock!"

Jan-June 1842, p221 - The Political Hoaxer (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.XLIII)

ARTIST:
unknown

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CAPTION:
THE POLITICAL HOAXER

"Open your mouth and shut your eyes
And see what Peel will send you."

OTHER:
SLIDING SCALE

Jan-June 1842, p211 - Punch's Parliamentary Sheet (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.XLII)

ARTIST:
Alfred Crowquill; Ebeneezer Landells

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CAPTION:
PUNCH'S PARLIAMENTARY SHEET.

1. Vote and Interest
2. Ordered to Lie on the Table
3. Had by the Noes
4. The Ayes have it.
5. Passing the Bill
6. Objecting to the Clause.
7. Re(a)d the First Time
8. Pa(i)ring off
9. Polled from the Boro'
10. The People properly represented
11. The Close of the Poll
12. The Queen's Speech
13. A Deputation from the Commons

OTHER:
TAX

Income Tax

Queen's Speech

Business of Session

Speeches

Jan-June 1842, p201 - Indirect Taxation (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.XLI)

ARTIST:
A.S.Henning; Ebeneezer Landells

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CAPTION:
INDIRECT TAXATION.
MULTUM IN PARVO

OTHER:
SPIRIT TAX

TOBACCO DUTY

SUGAR DUTY

CORN LAW

SOAP TAX

TALLOW DUTY

LEATHER TAX

COFFEE COCOA TEA TAX

Jan-June 1842, p191 - The Modern Eresicthon (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.XL)

ARTIST:
unknown

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CAPTION:
THE MODERN ERESICTHON

ERESICTHON, of Thessaly, affronted Ceres, who punished him with famine; in his extremity he ate his own flesh.

OTHER:
BUCKINGHAM

Jan-June 1842, p169 - Social Miseries - No.8 - The Dutiful Sons (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.XXXIX)

ARTIST:
John Leech; Ebeneezer Landells

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CAPTION:
THE DUTIFUL SONS.

"Ain't i t prime, Bill, being out o'nights?"
"I believe yer ;- 'specially when the Gov'nors don't know anything about it."

OTHER:
Soda

Sunday, 13 September 2009

Jan-June 1842, p159 - The Tight Shoe (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.XXXVII)

ARTIST:
unknown

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CAPTION:
THE TIGHT SHOE.
"No one knows where the shoe pinches but he who wears it." - Proverb

OTHER:
SLIDING SCALE

INCOME TAX

Jan-June 1842, p149 - Social Miseries - No.7 - Metaphysics (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.XXXVI)

ARTIST:
John Leech; Ebeneezer Landells

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CAPTION:
METAPHYSICS.
"What you say about Corporeity is all very well, but it presupposes the idea of - (hic) - absolute spirituality and transcendental - (hic) - perfection - (hic); b'sides, it's incompatible - (hic) - with the def'nition of space." - (Hic.)
"Well! don't - go - old fellow. Have some m-m-m-ore - g-g-g-r-o-g-grog." - (Hic.)

OTHER:
KANT

PUNCH

[illegible]

Jan-June 1842, p139 - The Queen's "Sevenpence" (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.XXXV)

ARTIST:
A.S.Henning; Ebeneezer Landells

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CAPTION:
THE QUEEN'S "SEVENPENCE"

OTHER:
INCOME TAX

60,000

38,000

Jan-June 1842, p129 - The Modern Ugolino (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.XXXIV)

ARTIST:
Ebeneezer Landells

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CAPTION:
THE MODERN UGOLINO;
OR THE WHIG TOWER OF FAMINE

Jan-June 1842, p119 - Social Miseries - No.6 - A Morning Call. - More free than welcome (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.XXXIII)

ARTIST:
John Leech; Ebeneezer Landells

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CAPTION:
A MORNING CALL - MORE FREE THAN WELCOME.
"OH! If you please, Sir, here's that dark gentleman called again. I told him you wasn't at home but he says he'll just step up, and's a comin' up-stairs!"

OTHER:
MARYANN MIGGINS

POST

Jan-June 1842, p109 - Mother Church and her Pussey-ites (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.XXXII)

ARTIST:
Ebeneezer Landells

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CAPTION:
MOTHER CHURCH AND HER PUSSEY-ITES

OTHER:
TIMES

Tracts

Church Property

Protestantism

Jan-June 1842, p99 - Social Miseries - No.5 - Returning from business (PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS. NO.XXXI)

ARTIST:
Ebeneezer Landells

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CAPTION:
SOCIAL MISERIES - No.5

RETURNING FROM BUSINESS.
"Who is that broad-shouldered fellow walking with a big stick and my wife?"