Pun Collection

Le Constitutionnel Napoléonien, 1848. Creator: Honore Daumier
Le Constitutionnel Napoleonien, 1848. Le constitutionnel se mettant heroiquement a la tete du corps Franc recrute rue de Valois et rue de Poitiers pour soutenir la cause du Prince Louis

Tiens, ce n'est rien que des peintures!... 1855. Creator: Honore Daumier
Tiens, ce n'est rien que des peintures!... 1855. Pun on the French word toile which can mean canvas or cloth. - Tiens, ce n'est rien que des peintures

Mon cher ami, je viens sans cérémonie.. 1838. Creator: Honore Daumier
Mon cher ami, je viens sans ceremonie.. 1838. Mon cher ami, je viens sans ceremonie vous demander a diner'. (My dear friend, I have come without ceremony to ask you for dinner)

La Présidente criant à tue-tête: Mesdames!... 1844. Creator: Honore Daumier
La Presidente criant a tue-tete: Mesdames!... 1844. La Presidente criant a tue-tete: Mesdames!vous violez formellement l'article 3 de notre reglement...lequel porte que les academiciennes ne

Fichtre!...que ces êtres-là sont sciants!, 1839. Creator: Honore Daumier
Fichtre!...que ces etres-la sont sciants!, 1839. Man tripping over sawn logs: Damn!...how clever these things are!'. Pun on the French word sciant which can mean surprising or sawing

Vous avez la parole, expliquez-vous, vous êtes libre!, 1835. Creator: Honore Daumier
Vous avez la parole, expliquez-vous, vous etes libre!, 1835. Play on words - parole can also mean word in French, so the judge is saying: You have parole/you may speak, explain yourself

Les Écuries d'Augias, 1842. Creator: Honore Daumier
Les Ecuries d'Augias, 1842. The Augean Stables. Se faire recureur, pour un heros superbe, C'est, par Hercule, un gout difficile a chanter

Oedipe chez le Sphinx, 1842. Creator: Honore Daumier
Oedipe chez le Sphinx, 1842. Oedipus and the Sphinx. Ce vilain animal a tete d'antiquaire, Lui dit: Pourquoi, monsieur, ne faut-il pas compter Sur une pyramide

Sybil Thorndike as Saint Joan, 1924. Artist: William Kerridge Haselden
Sybil Thorndike as Saint Joan, 1924. English actress Thorndike (1882-1976) took the heroine's role in the first London production of George Bernard Shaw's play Saint Joan which was first

Dites donc, not'maire... des communistes qué qu'c'est ça?, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Dites donc, not'maire... des communistes que qu'c'est ca?, 19th century. Pierre: Tell me mayor, what are communists

An Enquiry Concerning the Clock Tax, 1797. Creator: Charles Ansell
An Enquiry Concerning the Clock Tax, 1797. British Prime Minister William Pitt writes with a tax pen'; on his list are Shoe Strings, Knee Strings, Hair Strings'

"Angler" - Saxons in Ireland, 1891. Creator: Unknown. "Angler" - Saxons in Ireland, 1891
"Angler" - Saxons in Ireland, 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44. July to December, 1891

Murphy the Dick-tater, alias the weather cock of the walk, 1837. A figure with a potato surmounted by a weathervane for head, globe for body, holding bellows and telescope under right arm

Comment! encore une caricature sur nous.. 1844. Creator: Honore Daumier
Comment! encore une caricature sur nous.. 1844. Comment! encore une caricature sur nous, ce matin, dans le Charivari!...ah! jour de ma vie! J'espere bien que cette fois c'est la derniere

Adieu, ma chère Flora...ne manquez pas.. 1844. Creator: Honore Daumier
Adieu, ma chere Flora...ne manquez pas.. 1844. Adieu, ma chere Flora, ne manquez pas d'adresser au bureau du journal deux exemplaires de vos bulles de savon et je ferai mousser cela dans mon

Monsieur veut-il des crêpes?.. 1855. Creator: Honore Daumier
Monsieur veut-il des crepes?.. 1855. Monsieur veut-il des crepes?...- Ca doit etre un ancient croque-mort!'. Waiter: Would Monsieur like pancakes

A Small Scotch from Oban, 1934. Creator: Unknown
A Small Scotch from Oban, 1934. Child in traditional Scottish kilt - play on words

Martyrdom of St. Andrew. Creator: Carlo Maratti
Martyrdom of St. Andrew

The Railway World - Ironing Done Here, 1845. Creator: Alfred Crowquill
The Railway World - Ironing Done Here, 1845. A globe covered in railway tracks, from a comic story written and illustrated by Alfred Crowquill on the subject of railway speculation - investment in

A Tight Fit, 1872. Creator: Charles Samuel Keene
A Tight Fit, 1872

The Man of Feeling, November 25, 1785. November 25, 1785. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
The Man of Feeling, November 25, 1785

Captain Epilogue, March 7, 1786. March 7, 1786. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
Captain Epilogue, March 7, 1786

Two New Slides for the State Magic Lantern, December 29, 1783. December 29, 1783
Two New Slides for the State Magic Lantern, December 29, 1783

Great Cry and Little Wool, December 22, 1783. December 22, 1783
Great Cry and Little Wool, December 22, 1783

The Departure, April 29, 1784. April 29, 1784. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
The Departure, April 29, 1784

A Sailor Miss-taken!!, September 12, 1801. September 12, 1801
A Sailor Miss-taken!!, September 12, 1801

Fraternization in Grand Cairo, or The Mad General & his Bonny Party Likely to Become Tame Musselmen, October 9, 1798

Fall of the Vaux-Hall Performer, 1834. Creator: John Doyle
Fall of the Vaux-Hall Performer, 1834. Lord Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux portrayed as a circus tightrope-walker. The play on words in the title connects his name with entertainments at

Hounds on a Wrong Scent, or the Red Herring Drag illustrated, 1836. Creator: John Doyle
Hounds on a Wrong Scent, or the Red Herring Drag illustrated, 1836. The Duke of Wellington drags a herring with the head of John Singleton Copley in a comment on British politics

Two Personages of Great Weight on the Turf. Query_Which is the weightier ?, 1829. British racehorse owner Thomas Thornhill (1783-1844), and jockey and racehorse trainer Samuel Chiffney (1786-1854)

He smelt - O Lord! How he did smell!, c1820. Creator: George Cruikshank
He smelt - O Lord! How he did smell!, c1820. Satirical cartoon, with a quote from Southeys " Minor Poems", vol. iii p. 103

A Point of Honour, 1897. Creator: John Leech
A Point of Honour, 1897. Man in 17th century dress with a letter on the point of his sword. From " The Comic History of England" by Gilbert Abbott A Beckett

An Invitation Card by Hogarth, (1881). Creator: Unknown
An Invitation Card by Hogarth, (1881). Card with drawing of a plate, knife and fork by William Hogarth (1697-1764), inviting a friend to dinner

Extraordinary Meeting of Leaders of Opposition. 1835. Creator: John Doyle
Extraordinary Meeting of Leaders of Opposition. 1835. Satire depicting British politicians as animals. The sheep (or lamb) may be William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, who served as Home Secretary

Frozen Out, c1830. Creator: Unknown
Frozen Out, c1830. No more Cabbage all the Salary nipped - caricature of British politicians Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850), dressed as a policeman and wearing a gardeners apron

John Nash on the spire of All Souls Church, Langham Place, Westminster, London, 1824
Nashional taste!!!; 1824; showing the architect John Nash spiked by the seat of his trousers on the spire of All Souls Church, Langham Place, St Marylebone, Westminster, London

Its most hinfamous to let these here steamers out on a Sunday... 1834. Artist
Its most hinfamous to let these here steamers out on a Sunday. If this is Chelsea Reach, I am afraid it will make me wery sick, 1834

The origin of Cockney, London, c1800; a well-to-do provincial family arrive in London. One of the children notices a cock neighing

The self created brute... 1830. The Lord Mayors bedroom. A woman representing the City is ejecting the Lord Mayor, Sir John Key

The Donkey Mare... 1830
The Donkey Mare, braying Ecaw, ecaw loud and deep, from the great City to the great dictator, 1830. The Lord Mayor, Sir John Key, with asses ears

The mares lamentation, or the self-willed Don-Key, 1830. Artist
The mares lamentation, or the self-willed Don-Key, 1830. Sir John Key, in mayoral robes, with asses ears and legs. The cartoon refers to the cancellation of the Lord Mayors show by Key for fear of

Undertakers regaling themselves at Deaths Door, Battersea, London, 1801. Print depicting the undertakers eating, drinking and making merry outside Robert Deaths tavern, Battersea Rise

December - Boxing Day, 19th century. Artist: George Cruikshank
December - Boxing Day, 19th century

Aries - Ram-pant jollities, 19th century. Artist: George Cruikshank
Aries - Ram-pant jollities, 19th century

An entertainment at Kings College Hospital, 1885. Artist: Charles Joseph Staniland
An entertainment at Kings College Hospital, 1885. Illustration from the The Graphic, (23 May 1885)

A Sawrian, 1836. Artist: John Scott
A Sawrian, 1836. Cartoon on Gideon Mantell (1790-1852) the English geologist who discovered a saurian, the Iguanodon, near Cuckfield, Sussex, in 1820

The Jug of the Nightingale, 1854. Florence Nightingale flying to the aid of British troops in the Crimea carrying remedies

A Sub-Lime Character, early 19th century. A building labourer carrying a hod of mortar

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