Photo, Print, Drawing "All enjoying yourselves? That's splendid" / Illingworth.
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Title
- "All enjoying yourselves? That's splendid" / Illingworth.
Summary
- Cartoon shows a room (probably the church social hall) full of angry or bored people playing bridge. The room boasts a wood stove, and two ladies prepare tea in the background. The rector looks on happily, oblivious to the fact that no one is having a good time. Illingworth's cartoons appeared in Punch and The Daily Mail. In this one, he pokes gentle fun at social and religious life in English villages.
Names
- Illingworth, Leslie Gilbert, 1902-1979, artist
Created / Published
- 1938.
Headings
- - Bridge (Game)--1930-1940
- - Priests--Great Britain--1930-1940
- - British--Social life--1930-1940
Format Headings
- Cartoons (Commentary)--1930-1940.
- Ink drawings--1930-1940.
Genre
- Cartoons (Commentary)--1930-1940
- Ink drawings--1930-1940
Notes
- - Title from item.
- - Caption label from exhibit Cartoon America: In this carefully rendered English church hall scene, the benevolent vicar smiles upon his middle-class parishioners gathered for a whist drive charity event. Leslie Illingworth carefully rendered the coal stove, the hats on the windowsill, the tea ladies making preparations, and the faces of the players, most of whom appear miserable though some are puzzled, bored, panicked, angry, and distrustful. He portrays the working-class crowd outside the window as downright happy. Illingworth, an energetic illustrator, worked as a cartoonist for the Cardiff (Wales) Western Mail and the Daily Mail (London).
- - Date stamped on verso: 19 Sep 1938.
- - Forms part of: Art Wood Collection of Caricature and Cartoon (Library of Congress).
- - Exhibited: Cartoon America: Highlights from the Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature, Library of Congress, 2006-2007.
- - WOOD/Illingworth.223
Medium
- 1 drawing : ink over graphite underdrawing ; 45.8 x 38.2 cm (sheet)
Call Number/Physical Location
- Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:055-4 [item] [P&P]
Repository
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital Id
- ppmsca 07176 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.07176
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2004679178
Reproduction Number
- LC-DIG-ppmsca-07176 (digital file from original drawing)
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Online Format
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