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Four Watercolors by Walter M. Dunk 14 Aug 2013 | 03:30 am
by John Adcock Walter M. Dunk was born in Philadelphia in 1855. In the 70s he attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts where he was a pupil of Thomas Eakins. By 1882 he was president of the Phi...
The London Sketch Club — A 1915 Memoir 5 Aug 2013 | 11:49 pm
[1] The Forge, watercolour sketch by John Hassall. Walter Churcher, the club’s former secretary, wrote this short memoir of the London Sketch Club, for The International Studio, Vol. 54, No. 216, Feb...
Humor in the Trenches — The Songs My Mother Never Taught Me 28 Jul 2013 | 10:42 am
[1] “Madelon – Madelon – Madelon!!” [2] Composer-performer John Jacob Niles. by E.M. Sanchez-Saavedra This delightful 1929 compilation was published by The Macaulay Company of New York. It was the ...
The Demon Cat; A Naval Melo Drama 25 Jul 2013 | 07:03 am
[1] Art by William Ralston, 1889 (detail). Hester Viles sent me a little memoir about a favourite comic picture-book in her family, about an incredibly catastrophical cat, nicknamed The Demon. A larg...
The War of 1812 and its Publications — Picture Gallery 21 Jul 2013 | 08:28 pm
[38] Cartoon by William Charles (1776-1820), woodcut by Benson John Lossing (1813-91), celebrating the capture of HMS Frolic by the U.S. sloop-of-war Wasp on October 18, 1812. by E.M Sanchez-Saavedra...
The War of 1812 and its Publications 21 Jul 2013 | 08:23 pm
[1] Interior of Fort George, Ontario. A gun port. by E.M. Sanchez-Saavedra Years ago, a standup comic pointed out that school textbooks of U.S. history only briefly mentioned mysterious groups calle...
Herbert E. Crowley — A New Form of Art 14 Jul 2013 | 01:36 am
[1] ‘The Influence of Slander,’ Current Literature, 1911. Herbert Edmund Crowley was a man of many trades. Born in 1873 near London, England, his life ended in 1939 in Zurich, Switzerland. I could fi...
Humor in the Trenches — STOP THIS DAMM’D NONSENSE ! 11 Jul 2013 | 07:07 am
[1] Herbert Jenkins Ltd. facsimile edition, 1918. The world wasn’t made in day, And Eve didn’t ride on a ‘bus, But most of the world’s in a sandbag, The rest of it’s plastered on us.’ [2] Vol. 2, ...
Tears and Flapdoodle, Schoolboy Doodles and Poetry 5 Jul 2013 | 05:47 pm
[1] 1885, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., illustration E.W. Kemble. by E.M. Sanchez-Saavedra In Chapter XVII of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain aimed his caustic wit...
Fooling with Fireworks — The Fourth of July 4 Jul 2013 | 06:09 pm
‘FOOLING WITH FIREWORKS — A little more of this work, and there will be a tremendous explosion.’ Hamilton cover of Judge, Vol. 16, No. 403, July 6, 1889. A soundbite, Fourth of July at Punkin Center ...
