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1933: The (very) rich are different

I suspect that is this an attack on the very wealthy. Punch cartoons often look down on the poor but never look up to the super rich. Wilson’s employer is pampered to excess.

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1936: Modern Architecture again

It is difficult to imagine how Miss Wilson came to consider this architect as the designer of her old fashioned dream home. The furnishing in his studio should have warned her off the idea.

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1933: Minimalism opposed

The cartoonist is not keen on the concept that less is more.

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1924: Choosing a Valentine card

He has come to the wrong person. She is not going to help him in his intended deception.

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1932: Quick thinking waiter

George Belcher is being consistently down market.

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1934: Upsetting the, ahem, apple–cart.

I wonder if this artist is consciously influenced by HH Bateman – he of the ‘the man who…’ series?

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1925: A dose of realism

This is an unusual effort for a Punch cartoonist. He is contrasting the pantomime fantasy with the actual reality of poverty.

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1926: Who is really educated?

Undoubtedly the man who is speaking lacks the education of the ‘superior’ couple as we can see. The cartoonist is surely on the side of the scoffers.

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1920: Livestock kept as pets

Margaret is too young to understand the adult readiness to kill animals previously kept as pets. She has unmasked the pretence that had been invoked.

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1924: Showing off

Not that many people owned cars at that time let alone taking them abroad on the cross channel ferry. The car itself has clearly seen better days.