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Not only British cartoons @Cartoonmuseumuk. There are some great French ones. The satirical comic L'Assiette au Beurre attacked Queen Victoria and Edward VII over the Boer War in South Africa. Cartoons show how others see us. #MuseumsFromHome
8/8 Bedlam. Alcohol has ruined the father. The children's flashy clothes show that they have turned to a life of crime. Cruikshank's sequel The Drunkard's Children follows their road to ruin.
7/8 Now the mother is dead. Father loses his mind. What will become of the children?
The baby has died. The room is bare. Desperation. They are still drinking.
It started as one glass of wine - but soon it's necessary to pawn possessions for money for drink #MuseumfromHome
🖋️H.M. Bateman: The Late Arrivals, The Tatler, 3 December 1922. In a Royal Society of Arts lecture in 1949, Bateman first promoted the idea of a museum of cartoon art in Britain, a dream his daughter Diana (a founder of the Cartoon Art Trust) did much to realise. #MuseumFromHome
At 5pm we will announce the winner of the #DrawTheCoronaVirus competition set up by @MartinRowson! We'll share some of the entries during the day. Still time to enter - please tag #DrawTheCoronaVirus @Cartoonmuseumuk #MuseumFromHome
(7/8) #MuseumFromHome @BBCArts @MuseumsAssoc
In the Defence of the French Princess, or the Painting of Hector and Andromache, 1792 by Richard Newton (1777-1798)
Hand-coloured etching
This is the first print to suggest that Britain might be about to go to war with Revolutionary France.
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