1890 S Political Cartoons

"King Working Man" , an ogre-like symbol of Australian labour unions, demanding a worker's "honest earnings".

Original version of THE SITUATION IN THE FAR EAST, with Russian bear intruding from the north, British bulldog in south China, French frog in Indochina, and the American Bald Eagle approaching from the Phillip More

Thermomètre des salaires Public domain reproduction of political cartoon, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Русский: Адольф Вилле. Марианна и северный медведь. Карикатура в газете "Soleil" 18 декабря 1893 к заключению франко-русского союза. Марианна (Франция), с некоторым портретным сходством с активной поклонницей Р More

Anonymous Swedish political cartoon from 1895. Entitled "John Bull and the Russian watch the results of the Sino-Japanese peace negotiations with tense attention". Published by Fäderneslandet on 1895-04-17 (p. 3).

Anonymous Swedish political cartoon of Cecil Rhodes (the rat) and Piet Cronjé (the cat) from 1899. Entitled "A Critical Situation". Published by Fäderneslandet on 1899-12-30 (p. 3).

Anonymous Swedish political cartoon of Li Hongzhang from 1895. Entitled "The peacemaker Li-Hung-Chang on his way to Japan". Published by Fäderneslandet on 1895-03-13 (p. 3).

Anonymous Swedish political cartoon of Cecil Rhodes (the rat) and Piet Cronjé (the cat) from 1899. Entitled "A Critical Situation". Published by Fäderneslandet on 1899-12-30 (p. 3).

Anonymous Swedish political cartoon of Li Hongzhang from 1895. Entitled "The peacemaker Li-Hung-Chang on his way to Japan". Published by Fäderneslandet on 1895-03-13 (p. 3).

Antisemitic and anti-socialist cartoon in the Romanian satirical biweekly Lumea Vechĭe. Titled Ideal Sotir ("The Sotir Ideal"), after a socialist club in Bucharest. Romania is the cow pictured in the middle, i More

Antisemitic cartoon in the Romanian satirical biweekly Lumea Vechĭe. Published as an illustration to the article Jos perciunii ("Down with the Payots"), authored by Lumea Vechĭe editor Alceu Urechia. The artic More

Antisemitic picture. The farmers opressed before the French Revolution by the nobility, and after by Jews, Freemasons and Capitalists.

Original caption: "En ChineLe gâteau des Rois et... des Empereurs" English: "China -- the cake of kings and... of emperors" (a French pun on king cake and kings and emperors wishing to "consume" China). Fren More

Original caption: "En ChineLe gâteau des Rois et... des Empereurs" English: "China -- the cake of kings and... of emperors" (a French pun on king cake and kings and emperors wishing to "consume" China). Fren More

Original caption: "En ChineLe gâteau des Rois et... des Empereurs" English: "China -- the cake of kings and... of emperors" (a French pun on king cake and kings and emperors wishing to "consume" China). Fren More

Cartoon published in Vieaţa, a liberal and neoromantic magazine edited by poet Alexandru Vlahuţă, as D-l Delavrancea are cuvîntul ("Mr. Delavrancea Takes the Stand"). Writer-parliamentarian Barbu Ştefănescu De More

Editorial cartoon in the Romanian Conservative newspaper Epoca, published as an attack on the National Liberal government. It illustrates the Conservative viewpoint on the Ghenadie Affair: Orthodox Metropolita More

Source: http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/miscpics/0/0/6/doc/mp006003.shtml Engraving of John Lawrence Toole as "The Don" 1890

Anti-socialist cartoon in the Romanian satirical biweekly Lumea Vechĭe, parodying the "Fox and Crow" classical fable. "The Fox" is Ioan Nădejde, leader of the Romanian socialists; the gullible "Crow" is Nicola More

Marele colector colectivist ("The Great Collectivist Gutter"), depicting political life in 1888–1889 Romania. The new Conservative administration using phenol, a powerful disinfectant, to clean out the streets More

Un concert-monstru saŭ supliciul uneĭ "femeĭ... de stradă" ("A Monster of a Concert or the Torment of a 'Street... Worker'"): an allegory of the vibrant and competing press in 1890s Romania, with the newspaper More

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. Father time buries the news stories of the past year. Dustman is a term for a refuse collector.

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. The Earl of Rosebery, as a housemaid, declares delight at her new broom, Henry Campbell-Bannerman, who has replaced William Vernon Harcourt as Liberal leader. Harcourt's br More

Caption: “En Chine - Le gâteau des Rois et... des Empereurs”, (eng.: "China - the cake of kings and... of emperors".) French political cartoon from Le Petit Journal published in Le Petit Journal Jan. 16th, 189 More

Haĭ la deal, Samurache! ("Let's you and I go uphill, pooch!"), cartoon published in Moftul Român, the Romanian satirical paper. It depicts the Conservative government forcing the reluctant Junimist faction int More

Cover and editorial cartoon of Moș Teacă magazine, showing one of its eponymous character's adventures moving house.

The fictional Captain Moș Teacă shown reading the eponymous magazine. Public domain reproduction of political cartoon, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ελληνικά: Γελοιογραφία περί συμβιβασμού Εφημερίδα Σκριπ, 29 Μαΐου 1894. Public domain reproduction of political cartoon, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. Welsh Liberal politician Herbert Lewis (1858-1933) unsuccessful attempts to remove religious peers from the House of Lords.

Political Cartoon by JM Staniforth: Herbert Kitchener attempts to raise £100,000 for a College in Sudan by calling on the name of Charles George Gordon

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. A barrister representing H. H. Asquith (?) grills a cross-dressed Joseph Chamberlain over his promised support for the Old Age Pension Bill.

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. A comedic representation of an interview by a police officer of St Mellons on the fallout of the introduction of the Welsh Closing Act of 1881.

Political cartoon by J. M .Staniforth showing John Bull, the national personification of Great Britain, struggling with the Uitlanders issue in Transvaal which would ultimately lead to the Second Boer War.

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth commenting on the wasteful money spent on leisure in Cardiff (here represented by a Barnum and Bailey elephant, who were visiting the capital at the time) at the expense of h More

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. A Ritualist clergyman, blinded by his faith, threatens to bring down the pillars of the Church of England.

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth - Commentary on the Hague Convention of 1899 which set out to create a treaty on warfare. Soldiers beg believing they will soon be unemployed.

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. Commentary on the Diocese of Llandaff employing more moderate churchmen and rejecting those following the recently legislated Ritualism arm of Christianity.

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth: Lord and Lady Wimborne (Ivor Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne and Lady Cornelia Henrietta Maria Spencer-Churchill) are depicted as "Good Fairies" banishing squalor through their ch More

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth: Commentry likening the coalminers of Wales to American slavery.

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. John Bull and a bear, a personification of Russia, embrace after agreements to a Europe to China railway, easing relationships ahead of the 1899 Hague Convention.

Political Cartoon by JM Staniforth. Commentary on the new bill passed in the UK, lead by Sir John Henniker Heaton, 1st Baronet, in which the price of postage is reduced across the British Empire.

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. A personification of the Philippines holding a knife warns Uncle Sam that if America treats her as England does Egypt, there will be no need for conflict. Commentary on the More

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. Commentary on the state of the Liberal Party in Cardiff.

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth: The Liberal Party of Cardiff search for yet another candidate, a with news the Leicester's Arthur Wakerley is entering the fray.

Cartoon in the Evening Express (Wales)- Commentary on the exposure by the Daily Chronicle of the would-be explorer 'Louis De Rougemont'. The cartoon is probably by Western Mail regular Joseph Morewood Stanifor More

'Breathing Time' - JM_Staniforth political cartoon in which Joseph Chamberlain (right) complains of being unable to move Paul Kruger (State president of Transvaal) from the 'uitlander' (foreigners). Alfred Mil More

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. A group of Protestant lie in wait with a scarecrow, representing Protestant religious leader John Kensit, for Arthur Balfour. Comment on Kensit's announcement that he would More

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. James Mackenzie Maclean, MP for Cardiff, is shown being unfairly slandered, but then rescued by Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury.

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. A person representing the Philippines carries a new load titled American Sovereignty, after losing the load carried through Spanish control. Uncle Sam (named Brother Jonatha More

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth, showing Lord Robert Beresford castigating the Foreign Secretary Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury on his handling of issues in China.

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. A worker, a personification of the National Association of Operative Plasterers, is thrown out of a yard titled the National Association of Master Builders of Great Britain. More

Political Cartoon by JM Staniforth. As the first Hague Convention on peace convenes a crowd listens to an Imperialist agitator who spreads words of aggression and the need for Britain to arm herself more.

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. A personification of the city of Cardiff goes angling for the prize of housing the National Museum of Cardiff.

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. Dame Cardiff is dismayed at Russian reports that petroleum will replace coal, leaving her city broke and desolate in the future. Although the reports correctly predicted the More

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. Dame Cardiff and Dame Swansea apologize to their 'younger sisters' of Llanelli and Newport for not being big enough to host an international rugby game in the 1900 Home Nati More

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth: David Alfred Thomas' attacks towards political rival MacLean are compared to the fable of the Viper and the File.

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth: William Vernon Harcourt depicted as a second mate on the ship HMS Liberal Party, threatens to leave the ship if he is not made captain.

Political carton by JM Staniforth: The Personification of France, Marianne, struggles in an arena with a python representing the Dreyfus Affair, while other nations look on as the crowd.

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. John Bull, a personification of Great Britain, is alarmed as Uncle Sam takes more British engineering skill across the Atlantic to support US growth.

Political cartoon by JN Staniforth. Lascalles Carr, editor of the Western Mail (Wales), advises a publican to keep fit, while a person representing teetotallers roams outside with a club.

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. Liberal Party leader Henry Campbell-Bannerman, advises the Irish politician John Redmond, depicted as a stubborn donkey, to wait for the English opposition to Irish Home Rul More

Political carton by JM Staniforth. In the struggle for where the new Cardiff Town Hall is to be located, Cathays Park is imagined as a public house. Cathays Park would eventually win the bid.

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. Two characters named as Obidiah, take offence at the requirement for a proposed National Museum in Cardiff, to open on Sundays. Dame Cardiff stands to the left with open arm More

Political Cartoon by JM Staniforth: Herbert Kitchener is welcomed by the personification of the city of Cardiff after his successes in Sudan. Madhist Sudan is represented by the slain Jabberwocky.

Cartoon by JM Staniford. Dame Wales weeps over the death of MP Thomas Edward Ellis.

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth: Trade union leader and Liberal Politician William Abraham, known in Wales as Mabon, mourns the loss of Mabon's Day, a monthly holiday awarded to miners that was lost due to More

Political Cartoon by JM Staniforth. Tzar Nicholas II of Russia, depicted as a magician, proposes the disarmament of the major world powers at the Hague Convention of 1899.

Political cartoon - JM Staniforth. The Small Houses (Acquisition of Ownership) Bill, which enables small householders to seek a loan from the local authority to buy their homes, reaches the second reading, thr More

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth: Lord Salisbury continues to prepare John Bull for war, despite Nicholas II of Russia's attempts to form a peace conference. Events leading up to the Hague Conference of 1899

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth: Lord Kitchener is shown gaining weight as he is celebrated throughout Britain before his return to Sudan. Words by Punch magazine.

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. The towns of Llanelli and Carmarthen fight over a Liberal candidate.

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. Cecil Rhodes is besieged by political opponents in the guise of wasps as he tries to complete a transcontinental railroad.

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth: Commentry on the rifts between the Liberal Party, with Joseph Chamberlain leading the raft marked Liberal Unionists

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth: Sir Edward James Reed is tempted to run as a candidate for Cardiff by the Liberal Party

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. MP David Alfred Thomas is described as 'Meddlesome Dai', and challenged by Dame Cardiff, after he put forward a private members bill to demolish and rebuild All Saints Churc More

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth commenting on the slow 'torturing' to death of licensers through further legislation. The report in question is the Peel Comission of 1899 which in turn informed the Licensin More

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth: David Alfred Thomas is depicted as a jester and buffoon, while his political rival, and present MP for Cardiff, James Mackenzie Maclean is shown as more professional.

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth: A French poodle begs for scraps from a British bulldog, commentary on the Fashoda Incident (in present-day South Sudan).

Political Cartoon by J. M. Staniforth. The character of Shylock, acting as a personification of British money lenders, beseeches Parliament not to pass the Money-Lending Bill of 1899, which was introduced to c More

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. Joseph Chamberlain MP, depicted here as an inventor, frets over his latest invention, an old age pension bill.

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth: John Bull is unfazed by reports that France is to make a power moved in Sudan. Commentary on the Fashoda Incident.

A heroic Charles Stewart Parnell protects Erin from Tim Healy, Thomas Sexton and Justin McCarthy

Political cartoon printed in the Evening Express (South Wales), art and words by JM Staniforth

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. Commentary on Protestant dissent towards Catholics in Cardiff. The Protestant are shown in an unfavourable light in this cartoon, as a large bully, towering and wielding a club.

Political Cartoon by JM Staniforth. John Bull, a national personification of Great Britain, places a wreath at the coffin of French president Félix Faure. Marianne lies weeping on the coffin.

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth: Trade union leader William Abraham (Mabon) is unable to control his colliery members after agreements were made to end the 1898 Coal miners strike. The strike saw the end to More

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth: Brother Jonathan picks the pocket of a restrained Spain. Commentary on the Treaty of Paris 1898.

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. William Vernon Harcourt, represented as the sea monster encircling his parliamentary seat of West Monmouthshire, while Dr. Leander Starr Jameson as Perseus threatens Harcour More

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. Dame Cardiff explains to, Ma Cymru, the personification of Wales, that her town already has a rich treasure of books and deserves the national library. Rival town Aberystwyt More

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth showing the double standards of Great Britain here represented by John Bull. Bull commends peace at the Hague Convention of 1899 with the national personifications of France, More

Political Cartoon by JM Staniforth. With the first Hague Convention on peace imminent, John Bull, a national personification of Great Britain, struggles heavily laden with the arsenal of the British Empire. In More

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. John Bull, a personification of Great Britain, is puzzled by a House of Lords decision that allows betting at a racetrack but not a public house.

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. Two telephones share a chair titled British Isles. One representing the national Post Office, and receiving government aid, is pushing the National Telephone Company from its seat.

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. Liberal party leaders, Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery and William Vernon Harcourt, are shown as generals contradicting each other on how to lead their party.

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. John Bull and Johnny Crapeau, personifications of Britain and France, argue over lady Fashoda. Commentary on the Fashoda Incident.

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. The Cardiff Watch Committee literally sits on the fence on the matter of deputising either a member of the Catholic church (represented by a bulldog) and a Protestant candid More

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth: Dame Wales needs to be revived by John Bull after reading the article 'The New Welsh God" an anonymous published article in the Welsh magazine "Y Geninin", which attacked th More

Political Cartoon by JM Staniforth. Paul Kruger, President of Transvaal, attempts to gain favour by reducing the voting time for the 'Uitlanders'. Joseph Chamberlain of the United Kingdom looks on. Nederlands: More

Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. German businesses, riding a modern safety bicycle, race ahead of their British competitors, depicted by John Bull on a penny-farthing.

Political Cartoon by JM Staniforth: Lord Charles Beresford complains to John Bull over Russia's continuing stance in impeding British trade in China.