Dear Michael
I have been studying the cartoons and wonder whether
it is possible to decipher the signatures more easily
on the original slides than on the scanned images? For
example, cartoon 2 looks to be signed ".... Huw
Thomas" when enlarged 2X, but the pixels become too
large for accuracy after that.
Additional comments (but not solutions!) re cartoon 1
is that in addition to the golf club and table-tennis
bat, RK looks to be wearing a boxing glove on the
right hand and a cricket pad on the right leg. There
could also be a football boot on the left foot.
Re cartoon 2, the quote of 'Strong meat for men' looks
as though it originated in Hebrews 5:14, was used by
John Bunyan in 'A Discourse of the Building of the
House of God' Chapter VIII, and also by H.V. Blavatsky
in an article on 'A Society without dogma' in 1877.
One couldn't get many more interesting associations
than that.
As for cartoon 3, I can't add anything to your
comments.
With best regards
David Page, Harrow
--- Michael Smith <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >
Dear Colleagues,
>
> John Radcliffe very kindly put on to the web images
> of three cartoons I have
> in slide form and about which I am seeking
> information. One shows a defiant
> RK in an astride pose, holding a golf club and a
> table tennis bat. He is
> showing defiance to three characters, the middle one
> of which is in a state
> of collapse and appears to be wearing a Russian or
> German uniform. His
> supporters look like a soldier and a gent in a
> stove-pipe hat. Britannia is
> in the background and shell-bursts can be seen in
> the sky.
>
> The second, entitled "Curiosities of Literature"
> shows RK in a chef's habit
> with a hand on an oval serving dish.
>
> The third is of RK in service dress holding a quill
> pen rather than a rifle,
> and a large pouch from which ink is dripping.
> Shrapnell is bursting
> overhead.
>
> I should very much like to know when each was
> published; in which journal;
> the name of the artist and the circumstances which
> prompted it. You can see
> them on the web by clicking on "Three Cartoons of
> RK" on the home page.
>
> Any information most grafully accepted - many
> thanks Michael Smith
> e-mail as above or tel; (01273) 303719
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