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Political satire is basically as old as politics itself - think of Sophocles in ancient Greece or the jesters in Shakespeare's "King Lear". As a Briton under Queen Victoria, anyone who wanted to indulge in the latest social or even political mockery usually demanded the "punch" from 1841 onwards. The cover picture with the British counterpart to Punch came from the pen of Richard Doyle, who also made some of the first "cartoons".
As the younger son of a caricaturist and portrait painter, Richard Doyle was born into this art. At the age of twelve he is said to have illustrated Homer with mocking pictures. His talent became known at an early age - he worked with the caricaturist John Leech from 1840; Doyle's clients included the novelists John Ruskin, William M. Thackerey and Charkes Dickens. It should be noted that before the age of photography, many novels were illustrated with drawings, woodcuts or steelcuts. Good authors demanded good illustrators; this is one of the reasons why first editions of literary classics are so valuable today.
In 1843 Doyle became a full-time illustrator at the "Punch". Its founder, Henry Mayhew, was committed to social reform - he is still known in professional circles for his extensive statistical research on the situation of impoverished workers and craftsmen in Britain - and called for a mouthpiece for everything that was not right in the Victorian age. The journal, with its novel "cartoons" (drawn picture stories), spread rapidly, and Richard Doyle played a major part in it.
But Doyle was not only a mocker with crayon, but also - as his Irish family name suggests - a devout Catholic. When the punch criticized Pope Pius IX's change of policy (Pius, at first a liberal reformer, changed to a conservative course in reaction to the revolution of 1848), Doyle resigned in 1850 and turned back to book illustration, especially of fairy tales and sagas. His last major work was the collection of drawings, which were written by Andrew Lang and published in 1884 as "The Princess Nobody".
Richard Doyle did not live to see the success of this invisible princess: in 1883 he died of a stroke. By this time his former companions, Charles Dickens as a writer and "The Punch" as a satirical magazine, had long since written literary and media history.
Political satire is basically as old as politics itself - think of Sophocles in ancient Greece or the jesters in Shakespeare's "King Lear". As a Briton under Queen Victoria, anyone who wanted to indulge in the latest social or even political mockery usually demanded the "punch" from 1841 onwards. The cover picture with the British counterpart to Punch came from the pen of Richard Doyle, who also made some of the first "cartoons".
As the younger son of a caricaturist and portrait painter, Richard Doyle was born into this art. At the age of twelve he is said to have illustrated Homer with mocking pictures. His talent became known at an early age - he worked with the caricaturist John Leech from 1840; Doyle's clients included the novelists John Ruskin, William M. Thackerey and Charkes Dickens. It should be noted that before the age of photography, many novels were illustrated with drawings, woodcuts or steelcuts. Good authors demanded good illustrators; this is one of the reasons why first editions of literary classics are so valuable today.
In 1843 Doyle became a full-time illustrator at the "Punch". Its founder, Henry Mayhew, was committed to social reform - he is still known in professional circles for his extensive statistical research on the situation of impoverished workers and craftsmen in Britain - and called for a mouthpiece for everything that was not right in the Victorian age. The journal, with its novel "cartoons" (drawn picture stories), spread rapidly, and Richard Doyle played a major part in it.
But Doyle was not only a mocker with crayon, but also - as his Irish family name suggests - a devout Catholic. When the punch criticized Pope Pius IX's change of policy (Pius, at first a liberal reformer, changed to a conservative course in reaction to the revolution of 1848), Doyle resigned in 1850 and turned back to book illustration, especially of fairy tales and sagas. His last major work was the collection of drawings, which were written by Andrew Lang and published in 1884 as "The Princess Nobody".
Richard Doyle did not live to see the success of this invisible princess: in 1883 he died of a stroke. By this time his former companions, Charles Dickens as a writer and "The Punch" as a satirical magazine, had long since written literary and media history.
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.jpg "Asleep in the Moonlight by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "Manners and Customs of ye Englyshe in 1849: A View of Epsom Downe on ye Derbye Daye by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "The Death of the Giant Cormoran by Richard Doyle")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-387274).jpg "Richard Coeur-De-Lion and Saladin by Richard Doyle")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-282848).jpg "Dancing Fairies by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "Music Rehearsal in Fairyland (Illustration from")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1053579).jpg "Punch Cartoon: Revolutions of 1848 by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "The Fairy Queen")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-387257).jpg "Midsummer Night")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-387778).jpg "May Flowers by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "Cruel Elves, and The Elf-King Asleep, illustrations from")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1061489).jpg "Illustration for Jack The Giant Killer by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "The Manners and Customs of Monkeys by Richard Doyle")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-288498).jpg "The Dance of the Pixies by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "An Elf and a Fairy Kissing by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "Triumphal March of the Elf-King, illustration from")
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.jpg "Jack looking up at a giant who has two heads. The giant is Welsh. Colour illustration in a children")
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.jpg "The Witches")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-54264).jpg "A Fairy and a Knight by Richard Doyle")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1127726).jpg "The Fairy Ring by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "An Elfin Dance by Night, Illustration from")
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.jpg "Fairies and Squirrels by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "Water-Lilies and Water Fairies, Illustration from")
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.jpg "The Witches")
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.jpg "Thor and the Dwarves by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "Jack standing on the body of a giant, with his sword raised by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "Jack approaching a giant from behind. The giant is dragging a knight of the round table, by his hair. A lady holds onto the knight. Colour illustration in a children")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-387276).jpg "Perkin Warbeck reading his confession by Richard Doyle")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-101187).jpg "Rumpelstiltskin by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "Fairies, nymphs and elves resting in the moonlight on a branch, Illustration of")
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.jpg "Fairy Dance in a Clearing by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "Wood Elves at Play, illustration from")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1117765).jpg "The Witch and her Broomstick by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "The Modern Ophelia, or The Doomed One, 1845 by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "King Henry I and Serlo, Bishop of Seez by Richard Doyle")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1322439).jpg "Elf Prince Rejected by a Fairy on a Toadstool by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "Poor Little Birdie Teased by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "Animal Symbols of Countries Visiting the Great Exhibition by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "Poor little Birdie teased, and Courtship cut short, illustrations from")
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.jpg "The National Sport of Steeple Chasing by Richard Doyle")
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 with Robert Devereux 2nd Earl of Essex in council 1586 (cartoon print) - (MeisterDrucke-212080).jpg "Elizabeth I (1533-1603): with Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, in council, 1586 by Richard Doyle")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1354547).jpg "The Knight and the Spectre by Richard Doyle")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-387270).jpg "Surrender of Calais by Richard Doyle")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-387272).jpg "Henry III meeting his Parliament by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "An Elf in Search of a Fairy, illustration from")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1108376).jpg "The Toilet of Titania, c.1870 by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "Edward the Black Prince, with his prisoner King John of France, entering London by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "The Altar Cup in Aagerup: The Moment of Departure by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "Triumphal March of the Elf-King by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "Feasting and Fun among the Fuschias, illustration from")
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.jpg "Cruel Elves by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "St Valentine")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1351514).jpg "Girls combing beards of goats by Richard Doyle")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-387271).jpg "Signing of Magna Charta by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "Papa Cobden Taking Master Robert a Free Trade Walk, 1845 by Richard Doyle")
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_a_cheval_sur_un_oiseau_mouche_Illustration_tiree_de_In_F_-_(MeisterDrucke-1350824).jpg "A fairy (or a nymph) riding a hummingbird. Illustration from")
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.jpg "The Altar Cup of Aegerus, 1883 by Richard Doyle")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-387834).jpg "A Panic by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "A View of Epsom Downs on Derby Day by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "An Intruder, illustration from")
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.jpg "The Fairy Queen")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1129122).jpg "Feasting Amongst Fuscias by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "The Elf-King asleep by Richard Doyle")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-561072).jpg "The Altar Cup in Aagerup by Richard Doyle")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-387266).jpg "Critical moment in the Life of Catherine Parr by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "Moonlit Landscape, with a Witch and Young Dragons by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "An Evening Ride, illustration from")
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.jpg "Baby")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-387265).jpg "Field Of The Cloth Of Gold by Richard Doyle")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1129119).jpg "Goblins and Squirrels by Richard Doyle")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1129121).jpg "Feasting and Fun Amongst the Fuscias II by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "Dressing the Baby Elves, and Rejected!, illustrations from")
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.jpg "The Little Princess")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-387275).jpg "Title page for Selections from the Rejected Cartoons by Richard Doyle")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-55154).jpg "Unknown Picture by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "The Public Excitement on the Appearance of Miss Lind by Richard Doyle")
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_and_Francis_I_of_France_(1494-1547)_at_the_Field_of_the_C_-_(MeisterDrucke-212082).jpg "Henry VIII (1491-1547) and Francis I of France (1494-1547) at the Field of the Cloth of Gold by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "The Fashionable World Taking Its Exercise in Hyde Park by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "Dame Julianna Berners Teaching her Young Pupils the Art of Fishing by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "An At Home, The Polka by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "The Fairy Queen")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-387277).jpg "St George killing the Dragon by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "A prospect of the 5th of November showing the Guys (1849) by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "A Flight by Night of Bats and Elves by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "Italian Visitors to the Great Exhibition by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "British Grenadiers mounting guard at St Jamess Palace Yard (1849) by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "Deer Stalking in the Highlands (1849) by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "Manners and Customs of the English in 1849: The Commons resolved into a committee of the whole house by Richard Doyle")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-387268).jpg "Striking Scene between Queen Elizabeth and her favourite Essex by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "Venice and Poetry by Richard Doyle")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-387267).jpg "First Knight of the Garter by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "My Turn Next by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "A Cider Cellar during a Comic Song (1849) by Richard Doyle")
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.jpg "Fairy Rings and Toadstools, 1875 by Richard Doyle")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-387264).jpg "Una and the Lion by Richard Doyle")
.jpg "Madame Tussauds Waxworks, The Chamber of Horrors (1849) by Richard Doyle")