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Boy thumbing his nose out of a window Les 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. He has curly hair. I am not sure that I have the name of the engrav [...]

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

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Added: 2007-02-07

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Title page detail: Scholarly King Bill 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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The Well of Knowledge The 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 Wales These 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.

Keywords: portraits, cartoons, faces, humour, greyscale

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Added: 2006-06-10

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The Discovery of Tin in Britain Bill 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 Britons Bill 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-General These 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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Trouble The 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 King These 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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