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Another Pin-Prick - cartoon for Punch

Maker

(artist)
1820-1914

Title

Date of Production

(January) 1899

Medium

graphite on white wove paper with graphite framing lines, laid down on a historic card support

Dimensions

Height: 25.4 cm
Width: 18.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3406

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

With his silvery pencil strokes, Punch cartoonist John Tenniel produced remarkable commentaries on Victorian society and political life. In 1899 strong anti-French feeling was aroused when a Blue Book, or parliamentary record, was issued containing the correspondence between Great Britain and France on the subject of trade restrictions in Madagascar. The Conservative Prime Minister Lord Salisbury, who succeeded Lord Roseberry in June 1895, is shown politely negotiating with a defiant French Ambassador personified as France.

Notes

Published in Punch on 18 January 1899. In that same month, the Times reported: "It is a good thing for the world's peace that we are able to possess our souls in patience under the pinpricks of the French Governments, which, under the cover of grandiloquent phrases, habitually act with cupidity and the short-sighted cunning of the peasant."

Provenance

Dr Carl Robert Rudolf, London (1884-1974); acquired from him (in exchange) by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Special Display - Characters and Caricatures, Late Victorian Illustration, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 10/02/2011-08/06/2011

Cartoonists of the British School, East Kent and Folkestone Arts Centre, Folkestone, UK, 16/03/1968-20/04/1968

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 50

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check as is laid down.

Inscription: Recto: within drawing, centre (on book), graphite: “BLUE / BOOK”; lower left corner, graphite, signed with monogram and dated: “JT / 1899”. Support (historic), Verso: centre, graphite: “85”. On separate card glued to bottom of mount, graphite: “John Tenniel. / Another Pin-prick"!! / Punch. Jan 18. 1899. / Lord Salisbury. "A propos of Madagascar, Madame, and in view of / the approaching anniversary of your pledges, permit me to draw / your attention to the fact that I am still respectfully awaiting / their fulfillment!" / Madame La France. "What! More bullying! (to herself) I must / keep up appearances!!" / Punch. Jany. 18. 1899.”.

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