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Today's PUNCH colour cover. The mouse that roared....from the brilliant pen of Ronald Searle 1958 #circus #lions #liontamer #performers #performances #animals
Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. With new film on Emily Bronte, here's Michael ffolkes take on the literary sisters in 1983. "Emily dear, this isn't healthy. Why don't you write it out of your system." #literature #writers #writing #authors #Victorians #women #legends #Brontes
Today's PUNCH colour cover. Nights are drawing in... nuclear power plants are not yet online, how will the last few gas lamps fare? Still some in London! Bill Scully 1957 #evenings #city #cities #urban #streetlamps #lamplighter #tradition #nuclear #energy #gas #power #electricity
The great PUNCH cartoonist George du Maurier who died #OTD 8 October 1896, at work and at the PUNCH Table.
#OTD 8 October 1896 the great PUNCH cartoonist George du Maurier died. Later in life, his eyesight failing, cartoonist became bestselling author. He gave the world the character of Svengali from his book 'Trilby'
#OTD 8 October 1896 the great PUNCH cartoonist George du Maurier died. His work also featured fantasmagoria and nightmarish images like these.
#OTD 8 October 1896 the great PUNCH cartoonist George du Maurier died. His cartoons were famed for their attacks on the Aesthetic Movement and the fads of 19th C collecting like 'Chinamania'.