cartoons (humorous images)
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Pictorial images, usually drawings, that are humorous or that use wit and satire to comment on contemporary events, social habits, political trends, or other topical subjects, often executed in a broad or abbreviated manner. Originally referred to full-page illustrations in a circulating paper or periodical, especially when comical and relating to current events.
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Child scroll of cartoons
Collection — Box 001: [Barcode: X031579400]
Identifier: MSS 16740
Content Description
This collection contains a scroll of cartoon characters drawn by an unknown child, likely from sometime in the 1940s to the 1950s. The manila paper scroll is 3.25 inches in width and approximately 70 feet long. The outward-facing side of the scroll has about 250 individual illustrations depicting mid-century characters like Elmer Fudd, Dick Tracey, Archie, Popeye, and Donald Duck, as well as other characters from comic books, Sunday strips, television, and movies. The reverse is blank. The...
Dates:
undated, c. 1940-1950
Child scroll of cartoons
Unprocessed Material — Box 001: [Barcode: X031579400]
Identifier: ViU-2023-0031
Dates:
undated, c. 1940-1950
Edgar Wentworth cartoons and correspondence
Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2019-0120
Dates:
1886 - 1912
Szauer S. Ferencz World War I cartoon collection
Collection — Box BW 35, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16553
Content Description
This collection contains a private collection of approximately one hundred cartoons and caricatures of World War I propaganda. Most of the cartoons are written in German, but some are in Hungarian. Many are printed in color and were probably cut from magazines, but there are privately printed carbon copies too. Included in the front few pages is a folded poster titled "Humorist. Darstellung der Wappen unserer Feinde 1914" [Humorist. Depiction of the coats of arms of our enemies, 1914] and...
Dates:
c. 1914-1918
LB Watts manuscript diary
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: ViU-2021-0152
Dates:
ca. 1916-1944
The Devil's Steeplechase
Collection — Box BW 54, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16787
Content Description
This collection contains an anonymous sketchbook containing a highly illustrated handwritten gothic story, additional watercolor paintings, and numerous pen and ink sketches. The primary story pertains to a horse race between the devil and death that takes place on March 12, 1830. It is likely a satire on the first English National Steeplechase, which was run in Bedfordshire on March 8, 1830, and was the precursor of the Grand National race at Aintree. Nine full-page watercolors are devoted...
Dates:
n.d, c.1830
L.B. Watts diary
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 16624
Content Description
A small hand-written and illustrated manuscript diary compiled by Commander LB Watts, RNR (Royal Navy Reserve) on his World War I and later service that holds details and information on the merchant ship, HMS City of London. The diary contains detailed lists of officers and men, armaments and technical diagrams, maps, newspaper clippings, and annotated cartoons.
Dates:
ca. 1916-1944
Edgar Wentworth cartoons and correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16703
Content Description
Edgar Wentwork archive of primary material documenting the career of a little-known American cartoon illustrator from 1886 to 1912. There are original cartoons and related correspondence containing approximately 295 pen and ink drawings and sketches, 125 illustrations,170 loose drawings, including his personal album, "Original Pen & Pencil Sketches, A Book of the Etiquette of the Day, by Ed. Wentworth, 1886." General warning: Twenty three of his cartoons portray...
Dates:
1886 - 1912