Raven Hill, Leonard (1867 - 1942)
Raven Hill studied at Lambeth School of Art and the Academie Julian in Paris. After returning to Britain, Raven Hill began to work as a painter, exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1889. However, he found he was having more success drawing cartoons and theatrical caricatures and illustrations for a whole array of publications, including Pall Mall Gazette, Printer’s Pie, Pearson’s, Sketch and Strand Magazine. Raven Hill began drawing for Punch in 1895. He was elected to the Punch Table in 1901 and contributed social and political cartoons to the magazine until his retirement in 1935. His cartoon ‘Gap in the Bridge’ was selected as one of the greatest cartoons in history by Timothy S. Benson.
Cartoons for sale:
- No Caption, 1920
- £165
- 22cm x 16cm
- Punch
- TERRIBLE RESULTS OF THE LATEST CRAZE (Caption below) , 1892
- £225
- 21cm x 16cm
- Punch
Housemaid: "Oh if you please, ma'am, you know when you allowed cook to go out just now for an hour? Well she's come back so very - er poorly." Mistress: "So very poorly? Good Gracious, Jane, whatever is the matter?” Housemaid: “Well you know, ma’am you told her to do them eggs for master’s tea and she’s trying to boil the ping pong balls!!!”
- Doctor: "Well Mathew did that box of pills I sent you yesterday ease the pain?" Patient: "Couldn't e do em up in something different? That little box be terrible to swallow.", 1896
- £225
- 24cm x 20cm
- Punch
- 1st Blue Jacket: Well, matey wot 'appened?" 2nd Blue Jacket: "Leftenant, e reports as 'ow I were dirty an' my 'ammock weren't clean, an' Captin! e ses "wash 'is bloomin' neck, scrub ;is bloomin' face, an' cut 'is bloomin 'air every ten minutes!", 1898
- £225
- 26cm x 18cm
- Punch
- WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? Mr Punch, falling into line with various enterprising contemporaries, offers a puzzle to his readers., 1922
- £385
- 24cm x30cm
- Punch
- TRUTHLESS DAYS, 1916
- £385
- 25cm x 34cm
- Published in Punch 9 August 1916
