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| Punch Killing Judy 17th-19th Centuries Part of a Set in an Album The George Speaight Archive The Victoria & Albert Museum |
This hand-colored engraving portrays the traditional scene of Punch killing Judy. In the earliest versions of the British Punch and Judy tradition, Judy egged Punch on by first nagging him, and then, beating him.
It’s
hard to date this image. The original
drawing is by an unknown artist and this engraving was produced by an
unspecified publisher. It could date
anywhere between the later Seventeenth and Mid-Nineteenth Centuries.
This image is part of a set depicting scenes from the puppet show along with a description of the action. The cards were long-ago pasted into an album along with some unrelated prints of buildings.
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