NATURE NOTES 1934 William Leigh Ridgewell PUNCH CARTOON PAGE

Original 10 3/4 inch x 8 1/4 inch Double-Sided Wood Engraved Cartoon page titled NATURE NOTES: THE CUCKOO - AND THE JAY from Punch, May 14, 1934.

The cartoon is by William Leigh Ridgewell (1881 - 1937). Artist, Illustrator and Lithographer. Brighton School of Art graduate. In India, during World War I he drew posters for the Indian War loan and contributed cartoons and sketches to The Looker-On and Indian Ink. Back in England, 1920-1937 he contributed to Punch, influenced greatly by Fougasse and Bateman.

The cartoon on the reverse is by David Louis Ghilchik (1892 - 1972). A Romanian-British painter, and cartoonist for Punch Magazine and the Daily Sketch. Ghilchik was born in Romania and studied at the Manchester School of Art and at the Slade. His cartoons were published in Punch for nineteen years from 1920. In addition to his published work, Ghilchik was President of the London Sketch Club and exhibited at the Royal Academy, the New English Art Club and with the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour.

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 good to very good condition with a 1 1/2 inch tear at the lower left corner.