Category Archives: Punch

A Touching Appeal: A Parody of “The Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò”

Posted on September 19, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

Punch, Vol. 107 (17 November 1894), pp. 234-235. From Amy Matthewson’s Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era. London and new York: Routledge, 2022, pp. 114-116. John Tenniel’s “A Touching Appeal” depicts an overgrown childlike Chinese man named Younghy-Bung-Boo-Hoo … Continue reading →

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Awful Protection against Midges

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Marco Graziosi

John Everett Millais, Awful Protection against Midges, 1853. Pen and sepia ink on paper. Signed with monogram, inscribed and dated 1853. This drawing comes from a series of about twenty-five amusing records that Millais made as a visual diary of … Continue reading →

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