{"id":3205,"date":"2010-08-30T20:46:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T01:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=3205"},"modified":"2010-08-30T21:04:33","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T02:04:33","slug":"civil-war-political-cartoons-from-punch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/08\/30\/civil-war-political-cartoons-from-punch\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil War Political Cartoons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthist.umn.edu\/aict\/Tennielweb\/punch\/610518.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3206\" title=\"Punch\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/08\/punchcartoon-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/08\/punchcartoon-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/08\/punchcartoon.jpg 697w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?s=cartoon\" target=\"_blank\">previous posts<\/a> have discussed political cartoons from American publications like <em>Harpers Weekly<\/em>, <em>Punch<\/em> was a popular periodical in England. Art Historian Allan T. Kohl works at Minneapolis College of Art &amp; Design and has put together an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthist.umn.edu\/aict\/Tennielweb\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">interesting collection<\/a> of <em>Punch<\/em>\u2019s \u201cprincipal cartoons\u201d related to the Civil War. Weekly editions \u201cfeatured a principal cartoon, sometimes called the \u201cbig cut,\u201d commenting on a significant event or issue,\u201d as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthist.umn.edu\/aict\/Tennielweb\/intro.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kohl explains<\/a>.  Each cartoon includes a short description and one can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthist.umn.edu\/aict\/Tennielweb\/chronology.html\" target=\"_blank\">browse <\/a>this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthist.umn.edu\/aict\/Tennielweb\/punch\/601201.html\" target=\"_blank\">collection <\/a>in several different ways. In addition, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthist.umn.edu\/aict\/Tennielweb\/intro.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kohl discusses<\/a> the various ways that historic individuals and national symbols appeared in the cartoons. The chief illustrator at <em>Punch<\/em> during this period was John Tenniel (1820-1914) , who also provided the illustrations for Lewis Carroll\u2019s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/stream\/alicesadventures88carr#page\/n9\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\">Alice&#8217;s Adventures in Wonderland<\/a><\/em> (1865) and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/stream\/throughlookinggl00carr3#page\/n9\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\">Through the Looking Glass<\/a><\/em> (1872). You can learn more about Tenniel in Frankie Morris, <em>Artist of Wonderland: The Life, Political Cartoons, and Illustrations of Tenniel<\/em> (2005). Both Google Books (<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=e-ZbAAAAQAAJ&amp;dq=Punch&amp;pg=PP5#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=true\" target=\"_blank\">1862<\/a>) and the Internet Archive (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/stream\/punch186000lemouoft#page\/n5\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\">June-Dec. 1860<\/a>) have digitized some issues of <em>Punch<\/em> from this period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While previous posts have discussed political cartoons from American publications like Harpers Weekly, Punch was a popular periodical in England. Art Historian Allan T. Kohl works at Minneapolis College of Art &amp; Design and has put together an interesting collection of Punch\u2019s \u201cprincipal cartoons\u201d related to the Civil War. Weekly editions \u201cfeatured a principal cartoon, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,156],"tags":[4756,163],"class_list":["post-3205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-images","tag-contests-elections","tag-us-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3205"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3212,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205\/revisions\/3212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}