Black on White. A review of some British cartoons and caricatures of the last 200 years - ACE002.4

Photograph of Will Dyson. Film of Suffrage march. Dyson’s Miss Davison (1914), and other comments on suffrage. World War I recruiting poster; actuality footage of recruitment and combat scenes. Bruce Bairnsfather’s Old Bill. Bernard Partridge for Punch, In Honour of the British Navy. Crowds celebrating victory. Dyson’s Curious, I Seem to Hear a Child Weeping (1919). The Hatching (1920) by David Low. Comments on unemployment, the League of Nations, and war: Low’s Safety First (1936), etc. Thoughts on other changes in society. Sidney Strube’s "Little Man" and John Millar Watts’s "Pop". Sequence by H. M. Bateman showing man struggling with deck chair. Comments on society and the Wall Street Crash. Cartoons by Pont (Graham Laidler). Low’s "How much will you give me not to kick your pants for, say, twenty five years?" (1936); The Man Who Took the Lid Off (1935); Stepping Stones to Glory (1936); Where Next, Mein Führer? (1940); other comments on the coming war. Cartoons by Osbert Lancaster and Carl Giles. Some of Ronald Searle’s St Trinian’s drawings. The slowness of "man’s moral progress" compared with the speed of technological advances. Low’s Life or Death: "Baby play with nice ball?" (1945). Caption: "The art of caricature lies halfway between laughter and tears" written and signed by Low.