GRAVE SOCIAL BLUNDER 1934 Fougasse PUNCH CARTOON PAGE

Original 10 3/4 inch x 8 1/4 inch Double-Sided Wood Engraved Cartoon page titled GRAVE SOCIAL BLUNDER from Punch, May 14, 1934.

The cartoon is by Fougasse (1887 - 1965). Cyril Kenneth Bird CBE, known by the pen name Fougasse, was a British cartoonist. He was perhaps best known for his work in Punch magazine (of which he served as editor from 1949 to 1953) and his World War II warning propaganda posters; "Careless talk costs lives" was one of the most popular. He also designed many posters for the London Underground.

The cartoon on the reverse is by Arthur Watts (1883 - 1935). Arthur Watts was a well-known illustrator and artist whose life was tragically cut short by a plane crash over the Swiss Alps in 1935. His first drawing for Punch, the English humour magazine, was published in 1912 but his work continued to appear regularly right up until his death. He also did four drawings a week for the Radio Times, illustrated a dozen or so books, including E.M. Delafields "Diary of a Provincial Lady", designed travel posters for the railways and the London Underground as well as editing and illustrating one book, "A Painter's Anthology"..

Punch, or The London Charivari, was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells. Historically, it was most influential in the 1840s and 1850s, when it helped to coin the term "cartoon" in its modern sense as a humorous illustration.

The page is in very good condition.