Miguel Covarrubias’s illustration for an article titled “Our changing tastes … in 1938,″ from the May 15, 1938, edition of American Vogue. The celebrities of the moment are, from left, Benny Goodman, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, Orson Welles, Robert Taylor, Lily Pons, Salvador Dali, Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Walt Disney, Dorothy Thompson, and Shirley Temple.

Photo: Posterazzi

Pictish Warrior and Aristocrat Ancient Carved Stone, The National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

German caricature of Josephine as a “nocturnal apparition” waking up Napoleon from his sleep

Nächtliche Geister-Erscheinung, anonymous, early 19th century

Siegfried Woldhek - Trump

Caricatures I made!

That guy that doesn't believe in lupus

I’m obsessed with John Leech’s illustrations of swells and other ridiculous fashionable men. Do you have any sources of images or further information you can point me to?

Do I ever!

I love to recommend the collection of John Leech's cartoons that I have used heavily for @is-the-19thcentury-man-okay: John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character, Volume 1 on Google Books. At this time it looks like the John Leech Archive web site is down. That's really a shame because it was searchable by year and (limited) keywords/subjects. It's still on the Internet Wayback Machine although I'm not sure how much is preserved.

The Victorian writer and entertainer Albert Smith (sadly forgotten today) is another great source for 1840s and 1850s fashions and foibles. I highly recommend The Natural History of the Gent and The Natural History of the Idler Upon Town.

For fashion history references to go with the cartoons, you can't go wrong with A History of Men's Fashion by Farid Chenoune, and the classic Handbook of English Costume in the 19th Century by Phillis Cunnington and C. Willett Cunnington.

Thanks for the question, this subject is dear to my heart.

I also saw Tears for Fears

these are all over a decade old, and are as relevant as ever

the last one references an infamous holocaust photo of a little Jewish boy in the Warsaw Ghetto raising his hands in surrender to the Nazis who appear to be visibly enjoying terrorising the child.

history doesnt repeat itself, people do

The February 21, 1925 issue of Judge magazine. The "editors' caricatured on the cover are some of the theatrical heavies of the day: George M. Cohan, Fanny Brice, G. and H. Marx, W.C. Fields, Flo Ziegfeld, Al Jolson, Madge Kennedy, etc.

Cover illustration: Ralph Barton via Wikipedia

A Cruikshank Feathursday

As part of a recent gift from Frederick Vogel III, we received a copy of George Cruikshank's Table-Book, edited by English humorist Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (1811-1856), illustrated by English caricaturist and book illustrator George Cruikshank (1792-1878), and published in London by the British satirical magazine Punch in 1845. Among the scores of ridiculous illustrations is a steel engraving titled “Annual Emigration of Birds” illustrating a short article entitled “Social Zoology -- Ornithology” in which à Beckett equates various segments of English society to species of birds, including Vultures (”always pouncing upon others”), Hawks (”whose prey is the pigeon”), Boobies (”walks with difficulty, and in fact can’t get on”), and Spoonbills (”a sort of adjutant to the Wild Goose . . . going frequently on Wild Goose errands”).

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Days of Grace

Hermann-Paul (René Georges Hermann-Paul)

At the notary

ca. 1920

This list of caricatures of Napoleon is so funny

I’m Funcking the Corsican

Published by R. Ackermann

Siegfried Woldhek - wolf, watercolor illustration. His own comment on X (Twitter): In 2020, wolves killed 295 sheep (source: St. NatPark De Hoge Veluwe). Brr, it must be your sheep. By the way, dogs killed or injured approximately 4,560 sheep and foxes approximately 4,480 in 2020 (same source). And in 2020, 685,300 sheep were killed by humans (source: CBS).