Satire, print shops and comic illustration in late eighteenth and

nineteenth century London

Mark BillsCurator, Watts Gallery

• Blending of tradition

• Cornucopia

• BOOK SELLERS

• Print shop

• SLIDE 17 WILLIAM HOLLAND WATERCOLOUR OF INTERIOR/ interiors

• SLIDE 22 SELLING PRINTS

• SLIDE 30 THE LOOKING GLASS

The Squib (1842), Judy (first of that name, 1842) etc. Cleave’s Gallery of

Comicalities, (c1844), Hood’s Magazine and Comic Miscellany, (1844-

1848), Puck, a journalette of fun (1844), Joe Miller, the Younger, (1845),

The Man in the Moon, (1847-49), Puck (1848), The Puppet-Show, (1848-9),

Chat (1850-1851), Diogenes (1853-1855), Town Talk, (1858-9), Fun,

(1861-1901), Comic News (1863-1864), The Hornet (1867-1880),

Tomahawk (1867–1870), Judy (the second so named, 1867-1907), Iris: a

Serio-Comic Magazine, (1868-9), Vanity Fair (1868-1914), Will o’ the Wisp

(1869-1870) The Hackney Comic Sketches. An Illustrated Manuscript

Magazine of Humour (1871), The Days’ Doings, (1871-2), Moonshine,

(1879-1902), The Alarum: A Panorama of the Times, (1886-1887), Saint

Stephen’s Review (1883–1892), which continued as Big Ben (1892–1893)

and Topical Times (1884).

• SLIDE 39 PUNCH SUBSTANCE & SHADOW