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Cartoon, Le Roi Soleil (Louis XIV)
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Punch was a British weekly satirical magazine that lasted through three centuries. Established in by Henry Mayhew and wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells, it was most influential in the 's and 's, when it helped establish the 'cartoon' in its modern manifestation as a humorous illustration.
The name was selected from the irreverent character of Mr Punch, of Punch and Judy - which reflected the magazine's satiric intention.
Punch struggled to attract a readership in its early years - except for 's 'Almanack' issue, which sold 90, copies. In December of that year, financial difficulties resulted in the sale of the magazine to Bradbury and Evans (publishers of novelists Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray).
Bradbury and Evans were able to capitalise upon newly emerging mass printing technologies, and Punch became a popular satirical publication due to sophisticated humour, and lack of offensive material - contrasting with much of the satirical press of the time. It received
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Page Mr. Bull in his Big Ship "NEUTRALITY" Floundering about in the Sea of Commercial Distress. (Manchester and Lancashire were centres of the British cotton industry) [2 November ].
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