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 14 Collections and/or Records:
Barbara Shermund editorial cartoon
Unprocessed Material — Flat_box ACC_BW_004: [Barcode: X006178800], Oversize_Flat_File_folder: ViU2024-0049_001
Identifier: ViU-2024-0049
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
English and French Medical Caricatures, circa 1760-1835
Series — Box 7, MS-67, item: 9, 21-49
Scope and Contents
Caricature by definition is a representation in which the subject’s distinctive features or peculiarities are deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic or grotesque effect. Nineteenth-century medicine provided caricaturists with a wealth of material. Artists humorously exaggerated medical conditions and physical characteristics. Bulbous noses, protruding stomachs, and hunched backs were some of the more common features drawn to extraordinary proportions. Bizarre treatments, massive doses...
Dates:
circa 1760-1835
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 that were cut out of magazines and pasted in a blank book. Most of the cartoons are written in German, but some are in Hungarian. Many are printed in color, 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...
Dates:
c. 1914-1918
Leaves from the War Diary of a Cootie
Collection — Box BW 57: [Barcode: X032668454], Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16863
Content Description
This collection contains an illustrated manuscript by John R. Abbit that tells the comic story of a mother louse and her children traveling across the bodies of American soldiers in the First World War. The manuscript measures 6 X 5 inches and contains thirty-one pages in its original blue wrappers. The spine is punched with grommets and bound with red ribbon. The dedication page is typed in red ink, and the volume contains fifteen pen-and-ink drawings initialed...
Dates:
undated, c.1918
John Leech watercolor sketches
Collection — Box BW 58: [Barcode: X032668462], Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16912
Content Description
This collection contains eight original pen, ink, and watercolor sketches with initials by the English caricaturist John Leech (1816-1864). Illustrated roughly around 1840, each illustration depicts his observations of daily British life of the lower and middle classes: on the street, in taverns, and at home. All contain captions related to the image, and some have titles in addition to their caption. These titles include "A Speculation," "On the Boulevards," "A Toothless Trio," "A Learned...
Dates:
undated, circa 1840
Margaret Trafford editorial cartoon
Unprocessed Material — Flat_box ACC_BW_003: [Barcode: X006178799], Oversize_Flat_File_folder: ViU2024-0050_001
Identifier: ViU-2024-0050
Ange Denis M’Quin "Series of Heads" Album
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032762361]
Identifier: MSS 16934
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a small quarto (9 1/8 X 7 1/2 inches) of over a hundred caricatures created by Ange Denis M’Quin (Ange-Denis Macquin) (1756-1823). A pen and ink manuscript title page that reads "A Series of Heads by A.D.M." with a roundel of sixteen heads is dated at the lower right-hand corner, "June 1819." An index follows with four handwritten pages and then a sub-title page, "A congeries of heads, May 1819," with a quote from Macbeth and an illustration of heads drawn together...
Dates:
1812 - 1819
Paul Kenton Conrad's childhood cartooning album (Addition 28) 2023-0197, 1941-1944
File — Flat_box 4: [Barcode: X032762381]
Scope and Contents
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains Paul Kenton Conrad's childhood cartooning album and scrapbook. The sketchbook, a string-tied leatherette album, documents a young boy's self-guided attempts to develop cartooning skills. Cut-out tutorials from Frank Webb's "How to Make Faces" are mounted on the album's early pages, with attempts in pencil to follow their instructions. Midway through, Conrad...
Dates:
1941-1944
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
University of Virginia Medical Illustrations collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-67
Scope and Content
The collection comprises mostly of anatomical illustrations of humans and animals by professional medical illustrators and medical practioners, but there is a good number of caricatures. Many of the images depict 20th century surgical prodedures; there are also physiological illustrations included in the collection. Most items are drawn in pencil on illustration paper with cardboard backing. In addition, there are some drawings in notepads and on tracing paper.
Dates:
1720 - 1969; Majority of material found in undated
Found in:
Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
L.B. Watts diary
Collection — Flat_box 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