It is hard to escape the legacy of the Punch Magazine. From 1841 to 2002, the magazine cast a satirical eye on life in Britain. It charted the interests, concerns and frustrations of the country and today it stands as an invaluable resource not just as cartoon art and satire, but for social historians.

Illustration by Bernard Partridge. Original, from British Punch humor/satire magazine, not a modern reproduction. Full size: 8 x 10 1/2 inches, including margins. Condition: very good -- very small hole on upper edge, some repair by putting matching paper on backside (using archival tape), otherwise,  bright and clean, no handling wear, lays flat for easy framing; backside is blank. 

[Published December 9, 1936] SORROWS OF A SPONSOR:

Mr. Punch: “And to think that it was I that gave you your name when I was a mere lad.

In 1850, before the Great Exhibition began, Mr. Punch jokingly applied to the Crystal Palace the title which throughout it’s whole existence it continued to be.”

--Crystal Palace is an area in south London, England, named after the Crystal Palace Exhibition building which stood in the area from 1854 until it was destroyed by fire in 1936. 

Sir John Bernard Partridge (11 October 1861 – 9 August 1945) was an English illustrator. Born in London, for some years he was well known as an actor under the name of Bernard Gould. But he was most renowned for his association with Punch magazine. He joined the Punch staff in 1891 and became chief cartoonist in 1910, a position he held until his death in 1945. His cartoons usually featured one or two stately figures centre stage; as Price, Punch’s biographer, pointed out Partridge’s cartoons were ‘theatrical’ rather than ‘dramatic’. He was a master cartoon propagandist, amply shown in his many war-time cartoons published in Punch.

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