Daily Life

Punch Magazine Caricatures

from the golden era of good manners

A collection of exquisitely hand-coloured caricatures. These are rare prints (not photocopies) from Punch Magazine, published from the 1870's to the 1930s. All prints are, therefore, over 70 years old.

Every caricature is meticulously hand coloured by Jolanda van Belzen in her atelier in Scotland, using fine water-colour paints from Windsor & Newton.

The reproductions on this page are scans made of the prints after they were coloured. They are available for purchase and will be sold mounted with Crescent conservation quality mountboard (colour: antique). Please email for details.

1926

"No Gwendolen Jane and Teresa Anne, you cannot come with us. The game would only suffer through the obtrusion of social considerations."

G L Stampa, 1922

"But why don't you work? You look strong enough."

"Work, Lidy! Why, I works when you and the rest uv 'em's joy-making'. I'm a Bank 'Ollidy tickler-merchant."

Brock, 1921

Spectator (furious at the reticense of the referee). "What's the whistle for?"

Informative stranger (on his first visit). "I understand that it is a signal from the referee to the players to indicate that the game is temporarily stopped owing to a breach of the rules, or to the ball having passed out of the field of play, or–." (Ambulance sent for.)

J H Dowd, 1922

Mabel. "Mummy, may i have an orange? I feel rather fruitless."

Lewis Baumer, 1922

"Need I say grace, Mother, in all this crowd?"

"P'r'aps not, dear, just for once."

"Look here, I'll tell you what – I'll mention it to-night at the end of my prayers, where I say my odds and ends."

Brock, 1922

Father (to small son who has been watching him shave). "What on earth is the matter?"

Small son. "Yesterday you let Betty look on and you cut yourself; and to-day you didn't."