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Boy thumbing his nose out of a windowLes Aventures de Jean-Paul Choppart par Louis Desnoyers: L’Episode de Panouille (1843)

The frontispiece shows Jean-Paul Choppart, the boy the book is about, looking out of a circular stone window and thumbing his nose, or perhaps pretending to play the flute. He has curly hair. I am not [...]

Keywords: boys, people, windows, cartoons, gestures, greyscale

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Added: 2007-02-07

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Title page detail: Scholarly KingBill Nye’s History of England (1900)

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, greyscale

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Added: 2006-06-10

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Cartoon: barefoot boy fishingVictorian Trade Cards (1890)

A boy wearing a broad-brimmed sun-hat, a shirt, ragged breeches held up with suspenders, and who has bare feet, stands on a rock by a river and holds a fishing rod. A well-dressed and carefully-manicu [...]

Keywords: cartoons, humour, people, boys, fishing, men, bare feet, drawings, water, rivers, outdoors, greyscale

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Added: 2018-01-13

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The Well of KnowledgeThe Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

The jester leads the donkey (or mule) to the well of knowedge (written, quaintly, “Knowledge. HerWelle”) but, stubbronly, the mule refuses to drink. The mule is wearing the board and gown of a univers [...]

Keywords: colour, humour, jesters, wells, sketches, cartoons

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Added: 2010-05-07

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HRH The Prince of WalesThese Be Your Gods (1929)

The Prince of Wales in 1929, when this book was written, was His Royal Highness Prince Edward, Duke of Cornwall, who later became (briefly, until he acceded) King Edward VIII. “I am glad that I was no [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, sketches, caricatures, cartoons, greyscale

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Added: 2006-09-03

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Bust of Cæsar.Bill Nye’s History of England (1900)

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

More about Julius Cæsar

Keywords: portraits, cartoons, faces, humour, greyscale

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Added: 2006-06-10

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The Discovery of Tin in BritainBill Nye’s History of England (1900)

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

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

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Added: 2006-06-10

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Cæsar crossing the channel.Bill Nye’s History of England (1900)

“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, greyscale

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Added: 2006-06-27

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Cæsar treating with the BritonsBill Nye’s History of England (1900)

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, greyscale

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Added: 2006-08-08

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Ploughing 51 B.C.Bill Nye’s History of England (1900)

“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, greyscale

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Added: 2006-06-28

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The Governor-GeneralThese Be Your Gods (1929)

“We have been supplied with a company of pleasant men to live in that stately hall which gently looks down on the turbulent Ottawa through the trees of Rockcliffe’s parkway. Soldiers, statesmen, even [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, sketches, caricatures, cartoons, greyscale

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Added: 2006-09-03

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TroubleThe Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

They were driving to the poor-house when he car broke down. Granny is filling te engine, perhaps with fuel or with water, while someone in the foreground wields a hammer; behind them, a jester laughs.

Keywords: people, cars, jesters, cartoons, sketches, humour, colour

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Added: 2010-05-07

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Rt. Hon. W. L. Mackenzie KingThese Be Your Gods (1929)

“The Prime Minister. William Lyon Mackenzie King is Prime Minister of Canada by virtue of a coin that turned up tails when the run of the risk indicated that heads would win. If heads had turned up—a [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, sketches, caricatures, cartoons, greyscale

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Added: 2006-09-03

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The First MondayThe Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

“The First Monday”

Between two palm trees we see a clothes-line with, pegged to it, two fig-leaves.

Illustration before the week beginning on the 10th of June.

Keywords: humour, religion, cartoons, greyscale

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Added: 2013-01-06

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Hon. Dr. S. F. TolmieThese Be Your Gods (1929)

“A Happy Warrior No one in British Columbia, and no one in Ottawa or anywhere in the east, for that matter, ever speaks of the Honourable Simon Fraser Tolmie. But thousands of people talkk of Doc Tolm [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, sketches, caricatures, cartoons, greyscale

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Added: 2007-04-29

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The Vigil of ArmsBill Nye’s History of England (1900)

“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, greyscale

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Added: 2006-10-31

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Crest of a Popular KnightBill Nye’s History of England (1900)

“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, greyscale

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Added: 2007-02-18

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One of Multum in Parvo’s “going” days.Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour (1856)

Parvo here is a rather strong-willed horse...We see the horse leaping past the hunting-dogs. The man riding the horse is a “toff” or country gentleman of the upper class, and hence portrayed as a lit [...]

Keywords: sports, horses, dogs, hunting, aristocracy, cartoons, sketches, drawings, humour, colour

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Added: 2011-07-03

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A Reluctant Tax-PayerBill Nye’s History of England (1900)

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, gibbets, gallows, cartoons, humour, greyscale

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Added: 2006-10-15

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detail: swinging corpseBill Nye’s History of England (1900)

This is a version of A Reluctant Tax Payer with the background cut away, to make a more powerful (but less moody) image. A dead man is shown hung by the neck, “you are to be taken from this place and [...]

Keywords: spooky, death, people, punishments, gibbets, gallows, cartoons, humour, greyscale

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Added: 2006-10-15

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