Illingworth, Leslie (1902 - 1979)
Illingworth began his cartooning career by working alongside J M Staniforth on the Western Mail. He began to draw for Punch in 1931, alongside Shepard and Partridge. From 1939 until 1969 he was the political cartoonist at the Daily Mail. Hewison, art editor of Punch, described Illingworth as having ‘faultless pen-and-ink technique, a technique which is essentially naturalistic yet masterly in its variety of textures, arrangements of tones, and subtle atmospheric perspective.’ Due to unpaid tax bills, Illingworth came out of retirement to work for the News of the World and The Sun from 1974 to 1976. See Illingworth biography by Timothy S. Benson.
Cartoons for sale:
- A Post-War Perseus: "My idea is to hover around and unfasten your chains gradually from time to time whenever an opportunity occurs."
19th July 1944 - £375
- 33cm x 37cm
- Punch
Lord Woolton Minister for Re-construction cartoon.
- "....and all who sail in her".
28th April 1965 - £365
- 26cm x 35cm
- Punch
George Brown Incomes Policy cartoon.
- The New Years Dishonours List
4th Jan. 1948 - £395
- 37cm x 19cm
- News of the World
IRA terror cartoon.
- On Firmer Footing, 1925
- £185
- 27cm x 20cm
- Western Mail
Archbishop of Wales cartoon.
- JOY-RIDE
25th May 1936 - £495
- 41cm x 31cm
- Punch
Illingworth's first cartoon for Punch.
- Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.
4th March 1953 - £55000
- 30cm x 37cm
- Punch
The cartoon that shocked Churchill (see PCS article)
- Going the right way for another separation: HIS WIFE: David! You can be polite and friendly without being familiar!"
14th Jan. 1924 - £485
- 31cm x 21cm
- Western Mail
Herbert Asquith Lloyd George cartoon.
- 10th Birthday Party
29th May 1968 - £465
- 28cm x 28cm
- Punch
President Charles de Gaulle cartoon.
- No Caption
26th May 1954 - £475
- 28cm x 37cm
- Punch
A vast cave containing larger and whiter stalactic formations than the Congo Caves in Cape Province has been discovered near Krusersdorp... The years have twisted them into astonishingly lifelike patterns. (Quote from Punch)
- If the Americans took over.
17th Nov. 1960 - £485
- 38cm x 22cm
- Daily Mail
- Nasser: Bloated Bullfrog of the Nile
15th Aug. 1956 - £975
- 28cm x 36cm
- Punch
- BY ROYAL DIS - APPOINTMENT
23rd May 1976 - £385
- 37cm x 19cm
- News of the World
Concorde Cartoon.
- The Keystone
20th Feb. 1952 - £375
- 30cm x 36cm
- Punch
British Empire cartoon.
- COLD CLIMATE "But I'm told it's even worse in the Chief City of all the Greater European Co-Prosperity Sphere."
28th Feb. 1945 - £395
- 26cm x 32cm
- Punch
- No Caption
9th Feb. 1953 - £345
- 34cm x 23cm
- Daily Mail
Nye Bevan cartoon.
- JOHN BANKRUPT'S APOLOGY "I attribute my downfall largely to American films."
13th Aug. 1947 - £450
- 27cm x 32cm
- Punch
Frank Owen (who owned this cartoon)interviews John Bull
- HAVE WE HIT SOMETHING?
8th Jan. 1940 - £585
- 32cm x 26cm
- Daily Mail
Leslie Hore-Belisha Minister of War cartoon.
- Caption Displayed, 1946
- £465
- 29cm x 35cm
- Punch
- No Caption
20th July 1975 - £375
- 18cm x 36cm
- News of the World
- No Caption, 1925
- £345
- 22cm x 17cm
- Western Mail
Winston Churchill, Ramsay MacDonald, David Lloyd George and Stanley Baldwin cartoon.
- Caption Displayed
24th Jan. 1966 - £395
- 45cm x 20cm
- Daily Mail
Formerly the property of former Labour Cabinet Minister Ray Gunther MP.
- RED HERRINGS FOR SALE, 1946
- £475
- 29cm x 36cm
- Punch
Russian Bear cartoon.
