Items matching cartoons

Boy thumbing his nose out of a window

The frontispiece shows Jean-Paul Choppart, the boy the book is about, looking out of a circular stone window and thumbing his nose. He has curly hair. I am not sure that I have the name of the engrav [...]

Keywords: boys, people, windows, cartoons, gestures

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Added: 2007-02-07

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Lobster primping before a mirror

’Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare,     “You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.” As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose     Trims his belt and his buttons, and tur [...]

Keywords: alice, fish, lobsters, cartoons, illustrations for children

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Added: 2006-10-30

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detail: swinging corpse: silhouette

A version of the swinging corpose cartoon with the details obliterated, leaving just an outline.

Keywords: spooky, death, people, punishments, cartoons, humour, silhouettes

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Added: 2006-10-15

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Cæsar crossing the channel.

“Cæsar [Caesar] first came to Great Britain on account of a bilious attack. On the way across the channel a violent storm came up. The great emporor and pantata believed he was drowning, so that in an [...]

Keywords: people, boars, soldiers, romans, cartoons, humour

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Added: 2006-06-27

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Title page detail: Scholarly King

In this detail from the title page, a king (wearing a crown) sits at a table with a pen and an open book, and is also consulting a dictionary. He sratches his head, obviously baffled.

Keywords: cartoons, scholars, books, royalty, humour

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Added: 2006-06-10

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A Reluctant Tax-Payer

It is night-time and a man’s corpose swings from the hangman’s noose on the gibbet. He is clothed, including boots and a hangman’s hood. In the background the moon looks on, aghast. At one time most p [...]

Keywords: spooky, death, people, punishments, cartoons, humour

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Added: 2006-10-15

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Cæsar treating with the Britons

Cæsar (the Roman emperor) sits cross-legged on the ground, sharing a Native American peace pipe with the barefooted Britons. Of course, tobacco was not known in the ancient Western world; it came from [...]

Keywords: pipes, humour, cartoons, people, bare feet, beards

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Added: 2006-08-08

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Ploughing 51 B.C.

“Agriculture had a pretty hard start among these people, and where now the glorious fields of splendid pale and billowy oatmeal may be seen interspersed with every kind of domestic and imported fertil [...]

Keywords: people, cartoons, humour, agriculture, animals, horses, rocks, unicorns, mythical creatures

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Added: 2006-06-28

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Crest of a Popular Knight

“He wore a crest on his helmet adorned with German favors given him by lady admirers, so that the crest of a popular young knight often looked like a slump at the Bon marché” (p. 103)

Keywords: people, cartoons, humour, knights, helmets

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Added: 2007-02-18

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The Discovery of Tin in Britain

A cartoon illustrating how the Romans discovered that Britain had... er... tin.

Keywords: people, boats, soldiers, weapons, romans, cartoons, humour

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Added: 2006-06-10

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Bust of Cæsar.

Cæsar (Caesar) here has a laurel wreath, a long nose and a rather unhappy face.

Keywords: portraits, cartoons, faces, humour

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Added: 2006-06-10

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The Vigil of Arms

“The most peculiar condition required for entry into knighthood was the “vigil of arms,” which consisted in keeping a long silent watch in some gloomy spot—a haunted one preferred—over the arms he was [...]

Keywords: people, cartoons, humour, spooky, ghosts, occult, interiors

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Added: 2006-10-31

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