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| Click Image to Enlarge--go ahead, it's pretty.Color Illustration on Paper by John Hassall After an earlier, larger painting Twentieth Century The George Speaight Archive The Victoria & Albert Museum |
Created in the early Twentieth Century by John Hassall (1868-1948), this illustration depicts a crowd of people watching a Punch and Judy Show.
Hassall actually created this color illustration on paper as a copy of a larger painting which he had finished earlier. It's an interesting image--set in the Eighteenth Century, but drawn with facial features and expressions clearly out of the 1920s. A young man, perhaps a teen, acts as the professor while an older man stands by as the bottler. We see the young man in the fit-up, from behind, as he performs. A real Dog Toby waits patiently, wearing his ruff and a jumbled basket of puppets awaits use.
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