Black on White. A review of some British cartoons and caricatures of the last 200 years - ACE002.3

George Cruikshank’s Massacre at St. Peter’s (1819) on the Peterloo Massacre. Duke of Wellington as the enemy of reform and other political ideas. Industrialisation. Drawings by Thomas Rowlandson of village and rural life. Cruikshank lampooning extreme fashions in Monstrosities of 1822 (1822), Humming Birds – or – A Dandy Trio (1819), etc. Drawing of London Fog; railway scenes including Mr John Bull in a Quandary – or – The Anticipated Effects of the Railway Calls. Actual railway. Carving a wooden printing block for Punch. Various railway drawings including one by William Thackeray of himself and Douglas Jerrold overhearing railway carriage conversation about the magazine. Portrait of editor Mark Lemon. Various drawings (including likenesses of themselves) by Charles Keene, John Leech; effects of women’s emancipation. John Tenniel – Britannias in New Lands, or Comforting the Irish in Throes of Unrest; An "Ugly Rush" (1870) with John Bull against women’s suffrage. God Save the Queen (1862), commemorating the Silver Jubilee. George du Maurier’s drawings of Victorian society "as it liked to imagine itself". Max Beerbohm’s The rare, the rather awful visits of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, to Windsor Castle. Edwardian traffic scene at Piccadilly Circus. Drawings by Phil May, one of the earliest artists to take advantage of the new technique of photo-engraving. Max Beerbohm’s Mr Rudyard Kipling takes a bloomin’ day aht, on the Blasted ’Eath, along with Britannia,’ is gurl.