Caricatures of Evolution - Cavemen
This part of the catalogue of Caricatures of evolution is provided separately because there are so many illustrations in this relatively distinct genre loosely referred to here as 'Cavemen', 1860-1939. The widespread use of these themes implies a general knowledge of evolution, and arguably, acceptance of an evolutionary worldview.
See also: Caricatures of Charles Darwin and Caricatures of the Scopes Monkey Trial.
1879 "The Very First Oyster Ever Eaten, At First Fright, Then Delight" By Sol Eytinge. Harper's Weekly (4 October).
Prehistoric Peeps (1893-c.1910)
In the wake of the widespread discussion and dissemination of Darwin's evolutionary ideas a new genre of stories emerged- the prehistoric or caveman times. This genre of stories and imagery largely descends from the satirical magazine Punch who commissioned artist Edward Tennyson Reed (1860-1933). These cartoons were so popular that a collection was soon published as a book: Mr. Punch's Prehistoric Peeps in 1894 and sold out within a week. For more on the instant popularity of these drawings see M. H. Spielmann, The History of 'Punch', 1895, pp. 562ff. Later the prolific artist Lawson Wood (1878-1957) drew many more illustrations in the same genre. There were many imitators. Ever afterwards worldwide audiences have been familiar with a fictitious prehistoric age with ancient humans wearing rough animal skins, often armed with a large wooden club, alongside dinosaurs and using laughable primitive versions of modern technology. These characters made it to the silver screen in early films such as 'Prehistoric Peeps' (1905). The Flintstones was a later derivation of this genre.
See Andrew Horrall, Inventing the Cave Man: From Darwin to the Flintstones. 2017.
1893 "PREHISTORIC PEEPS. | OWING TO HIS NOTORIOUS ECCENTRICITY THEIR RELATIONS WITH THE LOCAL MAMMOTH WERE SOMEWHAT STRAINED." By Edward Tennyson Reed. Punch 105 (23 December): 292. This drawing is remarkably similar to the 1885 painting 'The Flight Before the Mammoth' by Paul Joseph Jamin in the Musee de l'Homme in Paris.
1894 "PREHISTORIC PEEPS.—PRIMEVAL BILLIARDS." By Edward Tennyson Reed. Punch 105 (1 January. Reprinted in 1900 as "Ye Anciente Billiardists."
1894 "PREHISTORIC PEEPS.—THE FIRST HANSOM." By Edward Tennyson Reed. Punch's Almanack for 1894.
1894 "A LITTLE QUIET WHIST IN PREHISTORIC TIMES. | THE END OF THE GAME." By Edward Tennyson Reed. Punch Xmas number.
1894 "PREHISTORIC PEEPS. | AN UNRECORDED NAVAL ENGAGEMENT IN PRIMEVAL TIMES." By Edward Tennyson Reed. Punch 106 (6 January): 3.
1894 "PREHISTORIC PEEPS. | A VISIT TO AN ARTIST'S STUDIO." By Edward Tennyson Reed. Punch 106 (3 February): 51.
1894 "PREHISTORIC PEEPS. | NO BATHING TO-DAY!" By Edward Tennyson Reed. Punch 106 (24 February): 87.
1894 "PREHISTORIC PEEPS. | 'COACHING' FROM THE BANK WAS NO SINECURE IN THOSE DAYS. (THE 'EIGHT' ALL SIXES AND SEVENS—AND ONLY A FEW DAYS TO THE RACE!)" By Edward Tennyson Reed. Punch 106 (10 March): 111.
1894 "PREHISTORIC PEEPS. | EVEN A LITTLE HOLIDAY OUTING IN THE COUNTRY WAS NOT WHOLLY FREE FROM RISK!" By Edward Tennyson Reed. Punch 106 (31 March): 147. Reprinted as a Wrench Series postcard.
1894 "PREHISTORIC PEEPS. | A COMPARITIVELY QUIET BUDGET NIGHT IN THE PRIMEVAL PARLIAMENT." By Edward Tennyson Reed. Punch 106 (14 April): 178.
1894 "PREHISTORIC PEEPS. | OPENING OF THE PRIMEVAL ROYAL ACADEMY." By Edward Tennyson Reed. Punch 106 (12 May): 226.
1894 "PREHISTORIC PEEPS. | A NOCTURNE WHICH WOULD SEEM TO SHOW THAT 'RESIDENTIAL FLATS' WERE NOT WHOLLY UNKNOWN EVEN IN PRIMEVAL TIMES!" By Edward Tennyson Reed. Punch 106 (26 May): 250.
1894 "PREHISTORIC PEEPS. | EVEN THE 'DERBY' HAD IT'S PRIMEVAL COUNTERPART." By Edward Tennyson Reed. Punch 106 (9 June): 27.
1894 "PREHISTORIC PEEPS. | A NIGHT LECTURE ON EVOLUTION." By Edward Tennyson Reed. Punch 106 (23 June): 298. (Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg)
This cartoon has been widely reproduced and its original publication seemingly forgotten. The figures in this drawing have tails, unlike the others in Prehistoric Peeps.
1894 "PREHISTORIC PEEPS. | IT IS QUITE A MISTAKE TO SUPPOSE THAT HENLEY REGATTA WAS NOT ANTICIPATED IN EARLIEST TIMES." By Edward Tennyson Reed. Punch 106 (7 July): 10.
1894 "PREHISTORIC PEEPS. | A CRICKET MATCH. 'HOW'S THAT, UMPIRE?'!!" By Edward Tennyson Reed. Punch 106 (21 July): 34.
1894 "PREHISTORIC PEEPS. | THE NAVAL MANOUEUVRES AFFORDED MUCH PLEASURABLE EXCITEMENT TO THOSE CONCERNED!" By Edward Tennyson Reed. Punch 106 (11 August): 70.
1894 "PREHISTORIC PEEPS. | THERE WERE EVEN THEN QUIET SPOTS BY THE SEA WHERE ONE COULD BE ALONE WITH NATURE UNDISTURBED!!" By Edward Tennyson Reed. Punch 106 (15 September): 130.
1894 "PREHISTORIC PEEPS. | THERE WERE OFTEN UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH GAVE TO THE HIGHLAND STALKING OF THOSE DAYS AN ADDED ZEST!" By Edward Tennyson Reed. Punch 106 (29 September): 154.
1894 "PREHISTORIC PEEPS. | THE ANNUAL FOOTBALL MATCH BETWEEN THE OLD RED SANDSTONE ROVERS AND THE PLIOCENE WANDERERS WAS IMMENSELY AND DESERVEDLY POPULAR!!" By Edward Tennyson Reed. Punch 107 (20 October): [190].
1894 "PREHISTORIC LORD MAYOR'S SHOW." By Edward Tennyson Reed. Punch (10 November): 226. See 1907 Daily News (5 March) below.
1894 "PREHISTORIC PEEPS. | A LITTLE COVERT SHOOTING. (DRAGONS PLENTIFUL, AND STRONG ON THE WING.)" By Edward Tennyson Reed. Punch 107 (1 December): 262.
1894 "PREHISTORIC PEEPS. | DURING A CONSIDERABLE PORTION OF THE YEAR THE SKATING WAS EXCELLENT, AND WAS MUCH ENJOYED BY ALL CLASSES." By Edward Tennyson Reed. Punch 107 (29 December): 310.
1894 "PREHISTORIC PEEPS. | Prehistoric Pantomime / It certainly way somewhat disconcerting when the real Animal suddenly turned up in the Stage Box!" By Edward Tennyson Reed. Punch's Almanack for 1895. Later reprinted as a postcard Wrench Series, No. 2602.
[1894] "PREHISTORIC PEEPS FROM 'PUNCH' DRAWN BY E. T. REED." London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. There were subsequent printings.
1895 "PREHISTORIC PEEPS. | THE PROCEEDURE IN THE LAW COURTS HAD MANY POINTS OF RESEMBLANCE TO OUR OWN BUT AT TIMES IT WAS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO GIVE UNDIVIDED ATTENTION TO THE EVIDENCE!" By Edward Tennyson Reed. Punch 108 (6 April): 166.
1895 "PREHISTORIC PEEPS. | THERE WERE SEASONS (CORRESPONDING TO OUR EASTER, &c.) WHEN THE IHABITANANTS OF ONE ACCORD GAVE THEMSELVES UP TO RELAXATION AND AMUSEMENT!" By Edward Tennyson Reed. Punch 108 (20 April): 190.
1896 "PREHISTORIC AUTO-MOTORS!" By Edward Tennyson Reed. [Prehistoric Peeps] Punch (5 December): 274.
1897 "A PREHISTORIC JUBILEE! / (Our Artist assures us that he has accurately represented the scene of loyalty and enthusiasm at a principal point of the route, so what can we do but take his word for it!)" By Edward Tennyson Reed. Punch (19 June): 311.
1897 "THE GREAT SERVANT DIFFICULTY" By Edward Tennyson Reed. Punch (2 October): 154.
1898 "PREHISTORIC FASHODA." By Edward Tennyson Reed. Punch (15 October): 178. This is a reference to the The Fashoda Incident or Crisis between Britain and France in East Africa.
1898 "CIVIC FESTIVITIES IN PREHISTORIC TIMES." By Edward Tennyson Reed. Punch (12 November): 226.
1899 "A PREHISTORIC 'PEACE CONFERENCE'!" By Edward Tennyson Reed. Punch (11 January): 22.
1899 "Gigerl aus der Steinzeit" (cigarette in the stone age) Künstler-AK G. Hirth's Verlag, Serie: III, A. Schmidhammer. Germany.
1899 "A PREHISTORIC 'PUNCH' DINNER.' THE WEEKLY DISCUSSION OF THE CARTOON WAS FULL OF INCIDENT AND PLEASURABLE EXCITEMENT." Punch's Almanack.
1899 "'PREHISTORIC SCOTLAND' DE-PICT-ED. (Not by Dr. Robert Munro.)" Punch's Almanack, p. 20.
1901 "Mixed Bathing in the Stone Age." Punch. Reprinted as a Wrench Series postcard with caption: "THE STONE AGE REVISITED / The 'Mixed Bathing' on the coasts certainly did not err on the side of dulness and monotony."
1901 "PING-PONG IN THE STONE AGE." Punch (4 September): 177. Reprinted as a postcard 1903.
1901 "A PRIMEVAL YACHT RACE / Somehow or other, in those days, a breeze was more often forthcoming when it was wanted, and the race did 'occasionally' end in favour of the challenger." By Edward Tennyson Reed. Punch (2 October).
nd "'EIGHTS WEEK' IN THE STONE AGE." By Edward Tennyson Reed. "PAN" postcard.
1904 "THE ORIGIN OF THE 'CAKE-WALK.'" Punch (1 June).
1904 "PREHISTORIC SHAKESPEARE.-No. 2. 'TWELFTH NIGHT.' MR. TREE MIGHT SURELY ALSO MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF A PRIMEVAL 'MALVOLIO.' THE CROSS-GARTERING SCENE WOULD INFALLIBLY HAVE A WEIRD FASCINATION OF ITS OWN." Punch (21 September): 265.
1904 "PREHISTORIC SHAKESPEARE.-No. 3. 'MACBETH.' " Punch.
1898 "No. 5.—IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN WITH FATHER ADAM. | DISCOURAGING DARWINISM. | ADAM: 'You darned simian ass, you'll run around telling folks you're a relative of ours, will you?'" By J. S. Allen. New York Journal Colored Supplement (16 October): 4. Obviously inspired by Prehistoric Peeps.
A PRIMEVAL CIRCUS.
A PRIMEVAL MENAGERIE.
THE HUMOURS OF FISHING.
'OURS IS A HAPPY HOME!'
A FLOOD SCENE.
A FIGHT: MEN v. MOAS.
THE HUNTER'S DREAM.
CATCING WILD HORSES.
DINING IN THE OPEN.
THE FIRST OYSTER FEAST.
BATHING IN OLD FATHER THAMES.
'OH! WHAT A SURPRISE!'
A LITTLE SLIDING PARTY.
A MEETING OF RIVAL TRIBES.
'COULD YOU OBLIGE ME WITH A LIGHT?'
A PUBLIC MEETING AT A STONE CIRCLE.
FIRST ATTEMPTS AT GOLF.
A LITTLE ADVENTURE WITH THE MEGATHERIUM.
1899 Rev. H. N. Hutchinson, Primeval Scenes being some comic aspects of life in Prehistoric Times. London: Lamley & Co. Illustrated by John Hassall and Fred Burridge. Another imitator of Prehistoric Peeps.
[1902] "GEORGE ROBEY" Philco Series 3154 A. Ireland, Manchester. George Robey (1869-1954) was a comedian who brought to life the 'Prehistoric Man' of Prehistoric Peeps of Punch into his performances and songs and the silent film The Prehistoric Man (1924). See Andrew Horrall, 2017. Inventing the Cave Man: From Darwin to the Flintstones. Manchester University Press.
[1902] "GEORGE ROBEY" Manchester. (National Portrait Gallery)
[1902] "GEORGE ROBEY" Manchester. (National Portrait Gallery)
[1902] By Phil May. "Mr. GEORGE ROBEY AS 'A PREHISTORIC MAN,' AT THE LONDON PAVILION." The Sketch (9 April).
[1902] "George Robey / 'The Pre-Historic Man'".
1903 "A Prehistoric Scorcher." Marcus Ward's Series, No. 8.-'Prehistoric' M.S.O.B.
c.1903 "A Time-honoured Custom." Marcus Ward's Series, No. 8.-'Prehistoric' M.S.O.B.
1903 "Early Salmon Fishing. / The Mudlark" Marcus Ward's Series. No. 8.-'Prehistoric.' M.S.O.B.
c.1903 "Motling was all done down hill, and even then was fraught with considerable excitement and some danger." Marcus Ward's Series, No. 21.-'When the World was Young.' M.S.O.B.
1903 "Prehistoric Motor Car." By Tom Browne. Postcard.
nd "Cheddar Coaches Pre-Historic" Postcard.
1903-5 "The First Bicycle" "After Dinner, Rest Awhile" "Dinosaur and caveman" "The prehistoric motor" watercolours by Lawson Wood.
1903 "There was many a slip even in prehistoric times." By Lawson Wood. Royal. Reprinted in the Daily Express (1 June).
1904 "Washing Up" By Lawson Wood.
1904 "Interrupting the picnic" By Lawson Wood.
1904 "THE PRE-HISTORIC MA-IN-LAW 'TAKE THAT YOU MISSING LINK!'" Wrench Series postcard.
1904 "A PRE-HISTORIC CHRISTMAS. / His Christmas Stocking." By Lawson Wood. Xmas card.
c.1904 "An Ideal Stroke." By Lawson Wood. H & Co. Postcard.
1904 "LITERATURE IN THE STONE AGE. First Prehistoric Man: 'Excuse me, I'm a stranger in these parts. Can you tell me who is the gentleman over there chiselling hieroglyphics on the lime stone?' Second Prehistoric Man: 'That is Rudyard Oppenheim, the celebrated author, writing his new book.'" Sheffield Weekly Telegraph (7 May).
1904 "THE PREHISTORIC MOTOR." By Lawson Wood. The Sphere. There were other published variations of this drawing.
nd "'Coming thro' the rye.'" By Lawson Wood. Xmas card.
nd "SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE SPARKING PLUG" By Lawson Wood.
nd "THE FIRST POLICE TRAP" By Lawson Wood.
nd "The First Traffic Cop" Original painting. By Lawson Wood.
nd "A CHOKE IN THE FEEDPIPE." By Lawson Wood.
1905 "MR. LAWSON WOOD'S LATEST PEEP INTO PREHISTORIC TIMES, THE BRONTOS AND THE TOOTLE-BIRD." The Sketch (22 November).
1905-1907 " Illustrations by Lawson Wood. To childrens' book by Alice Raiker published in the UK and New York as: The Brontos and the Tootle-Bird and The Tootle-Bird and the Brontos. An imaginary pre-historic story in the style of Prehistoric Peeps.
1905 "Mr. Moses Barnett as 'Prehistoric Man'." The Tatler (29 March).
1905 "PREHISTORIC PEEPS. / 'The London to Sheffield Road Record has been broken by He of the Hatchet Face. A stray Sulurianithus, who took a keen interest in the affair, greatly assisted his progress. It is said that this may possibly disqualify H. of the H. F. on the grounds of artificial moter power.' —Extract from the 'Cycling' of the period." Signed Davey(?) Cycling (12 April).
1905 "Primitive Journalism in the Stone Age." By Arthur Moreland. Morning Leader (12 August).
1905 "A Prehistoric Golfer." (The Portrait Through The Ages / The Prehistoric Drawing) By Marcus Ward. Postcard.
c.1905 "L.B.W. Old Style. 'A hot 'un.'" (cricket) By Marcus Ward. Postcard.
1905 "Pre-historic Courtship. / No. 1. 'COURTSHIP'." By Lawson Wood. Postcard.
1905 "Pre-historic Courtship. / No. 2 DISMISSING A RIVAL." By Lawson Wood. Postcard.
1905 "Pre-historic Courtship. / No. 3 'MARRIAGE'." By Lawson Wood. Postcard.
1905 "Pre-historic Courtship. / No. 4 'OFF FOR THE HONEYMOON'." By Lawson Wood. Postcard. A North American copy seen The PCK Series.
1906 "Going home to dinner" By Lawson Wood.
1906 "PUZZLE POST CARD" H. C. J. Deeks & Co., Paterson, N. J. USA Postcard.
c.1906 "THE FIRST EGG COLLECTORS." By Lawson Wood.
nd "'He's waiting there for me.'" By Lawson Wood.
1906 UK Postcard.
1906 "The Savage Club House Dinner" By Lawson Wood.
1907 "PEEPS FROM A PREHISTORIC LORD MAYOR'S SHOW. / CIVIC PROCESSION IN 10,000 B.C." "Primitive Mayoral Coach. / Car for Portly Alderman. / Sketch of a Coiffure." By Edward Tennyson Reed. Daily News (5 March). See 1894 Punch (10 November) above.
1907 "Prehistoric Golf / INTERESTED SPECTATORS / The egotism of the golfer is notorious: in prehistoric times it was apt to be a little dangerous!" By Lawson Wood. The Bystander (31 July). Wood specialised in prehistoric comic illustrations.
1907 Prehistoric Proverbs by Lawson Wood. Quaint Ways in Quaint Days. London: Collier & Co. 12 colour plates. "Exceeding the Limit / A good thing is soon snapped up'" "Awaiting a bite / 'Little fishes are sweetest'" "ALL FOR THE LOVE OF A LADY / 'It takes two to make a quarrel.'" "WHIP BEHIND / 'It's the last straw that breaks'" "Hors-d'ouvre" "FORE! / 'Where ignorance is bliss...'" "LADIES FIRST / 'Possession is nine points of the law'" "TAKING COVER / 'Never count your chickens before they are hatched'" "SOCIETY BALLOONING / 'You never know what you can do till you try'". A contemporary review noted "...on the lines of the famous 'Prehistoric Peeps'...The majority of them show...the uncertainty of human life in the days when danger could even lurk on golf links, nowadays such homes of peace."
1907 Watercolour by Lawson Wood.
c.1907 "The Stone Age" By Lawson Wood.
c.1907 "Prehistoric Boxing" By Lawson Wood. Also sold as a postcard with caption "A ROUND WITH A 'KICK' IN IT."
c.1907 "'I want yer my honey'" By Lawson Wood. Postcard.
c.1907 "'Goodbye, Sweetheart, Goodbye.'" By Lawson Wood. Postcard.
c.1907 "'The girl I left behind me.'" By Lawson Wood. Postcard.
1905 " PREHISTORIC MATRIMONY. / No 5. 'THE FIRST TIFF.'" By Lawson Wood. Postcard. Postmarked 1915.
1905 "Pre-historic Courtship. / No. 6 'DIVORCE.'" By Lawson Wood. Postcard.
c.1907 "Prehistoric Pastimes / 'SHOOTING'." By Lawson Wood. Postcard.
c.1907 "Prehistoric Pastimes / 'FOOTBALL'." By Lawson Wood. Postcard.
early 20th century "Pre-historic Football." By Lawson Wood? Postcard.
c.1907 "PREHISTORIC / 'CROQUET.' 'May you never be DONE IN THE EYE.'" By Lawson Wood. Postcard.
c.1907 "Prehistoric / 'Cycling' 'Make no TYRE-some jobs make you feel PUMPED OUT.'" By Lawson Wood. Postcard. The same drawing caption only Cycling was published as a postcard in the "PREHISTORIC PASTIMES" series.
c.1907 "ON THE GREEN IN ONE." By Lawson Wood. Postcard.
c.1907 "The ship that never returned" By Lawson Wood. Postcard.
1908 "A Good Sprinter" By Lawson Wood.
1908 "A chief constable of the past" Pen and ink drawing. By Ernest Noble.
[1908] "Battle practice, 500 B.C. / A pre-historic naval battle." Salvator Valda and Henry Hunt, Naval sketches. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd.
c.1908 "PRE-HISTORIC CYCLIING" advertisements for the 'James' cycle and Gamage's Stores. By Lawson Wood.
c.1915 "Come quick, and take your pick! / 'The early bird catches the worm.'" By Lawson Wood. Postcard advertising Xmas Bazaar Deptford.
nd "An antient brother going to receive his wages." By Lawson Wood.
nd "OF TWO EVILS CHOOSE THE LEAST" By Lawson Wood. Ellanbee Prehistoric Series No. 120.
nd "AVOID TROUBLE / USE Pirelli Tyres." By Lawson Wood?
1908-9 "A mastodon chop or an ichthyosaurus cutlet" By P.V.B. Boy's Own Annnual.
1909 "MORE PREHISTORIC PEEPS. No. I. How our ancestors discussed incorporation." E. T. Reed's characters inspired these political cartoons. Berkshire Chronicle (30 January).
1909 "MORE PREHISTORIC PEEPS. No 2. An Incorporation 'Parley.'" Berkshire Chronicle (6 February).
1909 "MORE PREHISTORIC PEEPS. No. 3. No Surrender. / Caversham's preparations for the fray." Berkshire Chronicle (13 February).
1909 "Woman tempted man to eat! He took to drinking on his own account!" By 'Dauber' i.e. Watkins & Krake. Postcard.
1909 "PREHISTORIC BATHING AT BLACKPOOL. MA GOES FOR A DIP." 'C. F. M. Copyright'. Another variant as an additional caption: "MY WORD, IF YOUR/RE NOT OFF!" Postcard.
c.1909 "Prehistoric Sports / The Channel Swimmer." Millar & Lang, Ltd., Art Publishers, Glasgow and London. Postcard.
c.1909 "Prehistoric Sports / The Runner" Millar & Lang, Ltd., Art Publishers, Glasgow and London. Postcard.
c.1909 "Prehistoric Sports / The Captain of the Jungle" Millar & Lang, Ltd., Art Publishers, Glasgow and London. Postcard.
1911 "Prehistoric Sports / Golf" Millar & Lang, Ltd., Art Publishers, Glasgow and London. Postcard.
nd "Prehistoric Sports / BIRD NESTING" Millar & Lang, Ltd., Art Publishers, Glasgow and London. Postcard.
1911 "Mais nous avons de bonnes raisons pour croire que l'aéroplane était déjà connu à l'ère préhistorique." (But we have good reasons to believe that the airplane was already known in prehistoric eras.) Joaquín Xaudaró, Les péripéties de l'aviation, p. 4.
1905 "A Prehistoric Coal Staith ." By P. H. Owen. Postcard.
c.1908 "THE STONE AGE / A VISIT TO THE ZOO" By G. M. Payne (Gilbert Morris Payne 1879-1947). Postcard. Posted 1909.
1908 "THE STONE AGE / A LOVE GAME" By G. M. Payne. Postcard.
c.1908 "THE STONE AGE / AT THE MATINEE" By G. M. Payne. Postcard.
c.1908 "THE STONE AGE / UP THE RIVER." By G. M. Payne. Postcard.
c.1908 "THE STONE AGE / GEORGE JOINS THE YEOMANRY" By G. M. Payne. Postcard.
c.1908 "THE STONE AGE / THE ELOPEMENT" By G. M. Payne. Postcard.
c.1908 "THE STONE AGE / WE'RE SNAPPED" By G. M. Payne. Postcard.
c.1908 "THE STONE AGE / TWO TO ONE BAR NONE" By G. M. Payne. Postcard.
c.1908 "BEFORE OUR TIME / In The Row" By G. M. Payne. Postcard.
c.1908 "BEFORE OUR TIME / SHOPPING" By G. M. Payne. Postcard.
c.1908 "BEFORE OUR TIME / WHERE ARE YOU GOING MY PRETTY MAID" By G. M. Payne. Postcard.
c.1908 "BEFORE OUR TIME / Pa Disapproves of George." By G. M. Payne. Postcard.
c.1908 "BEFORE OUR TIME / A PICTURE POSTCARD FROM CLAUDE" By G. M. Payne. Postcard.
c.1908 "BEFORE OUR TIME / T'WAS EVER THUS" By G. M. Payne. Postcard.
c.1908 "VERY MIXED BATHING" By G. M. Payne. Postcard.
c.1908 "IN THE STONE AGE / DARBY & JOAN" Postcard.
c.1908 "ROLLER SKATING IN THE STONE AGE. / 'OFF TO THE RINKS.'" Postcard.
1909 "GOLF BUNKERED." By G. M. Payne. Postcard.
1909 "A HALT BY THE WAY" By G. M. Payne. Postcard.
c.1909 "LOVE IN THE STONE AGE / KISS ME!" By Reg Carter. 375. Postcard.
c.1909 "LOVE IN THE STONE AGE / FAREWELL FOR EVER" By Reg Carter. Postcard.
c.1909 "LOVE IN THE STONE AGE / THE FLIRT" By Reg Carter. Postcard.
nd "This chap had a deuce of a time when he wrote, but you've no excuse" Art Comic no. 309. USA Postcard.
nd "A REASON / STONAGE AGE PARCEL POST / THERE WAS A REASON THEN - BUT WHAT REASON HAVE YOU FOR NOT WRITING?" Ser. 1016 Kid Comic 12 des. USA Postcard.
nd "IN THE STONE AGE / 'Here's a postal for you!'" USA Postcard.
nd "THE STONE AGE / LOVE ME, AND THE WORLD IS MINE" By Donald McGill. Postcard.
nd "THE STONE AGE / Saucy, little bit o' fur, George - what?" By Donald McGill. Postcard.
nd "Piccadilly Circus in the Stone Age" By Donald McGill. Postcard.
nd "THE STONE AGE. / The First 'Lyon's'" By Donald McGill. Postcard.
nd "THE STONE AGE / Now, I wonder if thish lot are real!" By Donald McGill. Postcard.
nd "THE STONE AGE. / A Quiet game of Nap." By Donald McGill. Postcard.
nd "YOU know, I can't help thinking that a stinging nettle has got in among these fig-leaves somehow!" By Donald McGill. Postcard.
nd "THE PREHISTORIC PUDDING / WISHING YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS." Reliable Series. Postcard.
nd "SHELL MOTOR OIL" Postcard.
nd "'WHEN I ARRESTED THE PRISONER, YOUR WORSHIP, HE BECAME VIOLENT, AND TORE MY UNIFORM!'" Postcard.
nd "'THE RIVAL.'" Postcard.
[1907] "IN THE STONE AGE. 'Gimme a stack of reds!" USA Postcard.
1908 "Pre-Historic Pranks. The Rivals. | Revenge, tears, and jealousy came early in the ages, but the 'survival of the fittest' always proved Darwin's theory to be right, and in these latter days STANWORTH'S 'DEFIANCE' UMBRELLA survives as the greatest triumph..." Burnley Express (14 March): 1. This is inspired by the Prehistoric Peeps cartoon series in Punch. See above.
1909 The evolution of 'Pearson's Weekly'. Pearson's Weekly (16 September). On the occassion of the magazine's 1000th number. (detail)
1910 "THANKSGIVING IN PREHISTORIC NEW ENGLAND / THE CAPTURE OF THE THANKSGIVING GOBBLER" By Walter Harrison Cady. Life.
1910 By George Morrow. Text by Wadham Peacock. "The prehistoric woman's skull indicates that she had a large nose and prominent eyes. And yet, no doubt, prehistoric man fancied himself in love, and chipped sonnets on the old red sandstone in praise of his mistress's elephantine nose and gooseberry eyes, just in the old, sweet, foolish way." The Sketch (23 March): 8.
c.1910 "Enjoying his Xmas dinner by a torch light / To wish you a Happy Xmas" Hand-drawn postcard.
c.1910 "1. A prehistoric effort to reduce road-shocks witnessed at Stonehenge. / The evolution of the 'Continental Tyre'" Postcard.
c.1910 "If this were the age of stone I know I would not be alone. My 'love' I'd carve upon a bowlder, And take it to you on my shoulder" Postcard.
c.1910 Bullard Machine Tool Co. Bridgeport CT Buchanan.USA Postard.
c.1910? Xmas card.
c.1910 "Prehistoric Studies Why Willie didn't come home." By Fred Buchanan. Raphael Tuck & Sons 'Oilette'.
c.1910 "Prehistoric Studies Why Uncle moved from Westview Cave." By Fred Buchanan. Raphael Tuck & Sons 'Oilette'.
c.1910 "Prehistoric Studies A Square Meal for One." By Fred Buchanan. Raphael Tuck & Sons 'Oilette'.
c.1910 "Prehistoric Studies The Catch of the Season." By Fred Buchanan. Raphael Tuck & Sons 'Oilette'.
c.1910 "Prehistoric Studies Why Father didn't come home." By Fred Buchanan. Raphael Tuck & Sons 'Oilette'.
c.1910 "Prehistoric Studies Very Mixed Bathing." By Fred Buchanan. Raphael Tuck & Sons 'Oilette'.
nd "(1) Le portrait à travers les âges / Le dessin préhistorique" (The Portrait Through The Ages / The Prehistoric Drawing) By B. Moloch. Postcard.
c.1900 "A primeval Stock Exchange:-Bull versus Bear." Signed ASC. Popler Series. No. 4. Postcard.
1911 "An easy ride." Davidson Bros.' Real Photographic Series London & New York. Postcard.
1911 "'Do you love me?'" 3391. Davidson Bros.' Real Photographic Series London & New York. Postcard.
1911 "A back view" Davidson Bros.' Real Photographic Series London & New York. Postcard. 2 printed variants seen.
1911 Dlarence Blakiston as 'Wily Watcher' in the play Prehistoric.
1912 "The Prehistoric Argument / The Primeval Woman- 'Why can't I go out too and see the world?' The Primeval Man- 'Because you can't. Woman's proper sphere is the cave.'" Daily News (London) (8 November). The cartoon is mocking, not supporting, the traditional saying of 'a woman's place is in the home.'
1912 Boys Own Annual.
1912 "Man's Genesis" Movie poster.
1913 "THE CHAIRMAN: 'ORDER! ORDER!!' / IN PREHISTORIC TIMES" By Edward Tennyson Reed. Advert for Chairman tobacco, R. J. Lea, LTD., Manchester. Country Life (August).
1913 Race Memories. Movie poster.
1913 In the Long Ago. Movie poster (detail).
1914 Charlie Chaplin. His Prehistoric Past.
1915 "MODERN SCIENCE AND PREHISTORIC SAVAGERY" Will Dyson, Kultur Cartoons. London: Stanley Paul & Co.
1914-1915 "The prehistoric aeroplane - as it might have been." Boy's Own Annual.
1915 "CATCHING THE JUNE BRIDES IN PREHISTORIC TIMES" Judge.
1917 "CAVE MAN STUFF / A Nestor comedy riot". A movie advert.
1917 When Clubs are Trump. Hal Roach movie with Harold Lloyd.
1918 After All That. The aftermath of war, and the aggressive caveman attitude that started it. La Baionnette (December).
1919 Snub Pollard and Mildred Davis, Call for Mr. Caveman.
1919 "THE HISTORY OF A JOKE | BEFORE THE DAWN OF HISTORY IT WAS A UNIVERSAL FAVOURITE." By George Morrow. Punch 156: 7.
1919 "AND ANOTHER LITTLE 'BIFF' WON'T DO HER ANY HARM." by Mabel Lucie Attwell. Valentine's postcard.
1919 "'STANLEY' driving in the Home." Sandeman Stanley Cotton Belting Co. Ltd, London.
1919 "'STANLEY' driving a Windmill." Sandeman Stanley Cotton Belting Co. Ltd, London.
[c.1920] "'STANLEY' driving a Fan in the Desert" Sandeman Stanley Cotton Belting Co. Ltd, London.
[c.1920] "'STANLEY' driving under COVER" Sandeman Stanley Cotton Belting Co. Ltd, London.
1919 "'STANLEY' driving at the Pit-head." Sandeman Stanley Cotton Belting Co. Ltd, London.
1919 "'STANLEY' Pumping out Trenches." Sandeman Stanley Cotton Belting Co. Ltd, London.
1919 "'STANLEY' driving a Monoplane." Sandeman Stanley Cotton Belting Co. Ltd, London.
1919 "'STANLEY' driving a Road-cleaner." Sandeman Stanley Cotton Belting Co. Ltd, London.
[c.1920] "'STANLEY' driving in STEAM." Sandeman Stanley Cotton Belting Co. Ltd, London.
[c.1920] "'STANLEY' driving a Big Gun Tractor." Sandeman Stanley Cotton Belting Co. Ltd, London.
[c.1920] "'STANLEY' driving a Street Organ." Sandeman Stanley Cotton Belting Co. Ltd, London.
1921 "STANLEY. WOOD PULLEYS" Sandeman Stanley Cotton Belting Co. Ltd, London.
1929 "STANLEY Driving a MOVING STAIRCAISE." Sandeman Stanley Cotton Belting Co. Ltd, London.
c.1920 "THE FIRST ELOPEMENT." By T. S. Sullivant (1824-1926). Life.
1920 "THE RETURRN OF HARRRY LAUDERR (Prehistoric Times) / Enters (singing gaily): 'I - I love a lass-ie, a bonn-ie bonn-ie la. . . .' His Wee Bit Prehistarwric Wifie: 'Oh! ye do, do ye? Then Mr. Justice Horr-ridge weell juist hae to pit that richt. I'm thenkin'!'" By Edward Tennyson Reed. The Bystander (11 August). Henry Lauder (1870-1950) was a hugely popular Scottish singer and comedian.
1921 "A Tender of Affection in the Stone Age / SHE: 'Isn't he the old flirt?'" Harper's Monthly Magazine 142: 812.
1922 "In spite of the edict against it, football maintained its hold on the people. It was a common sight for the soldiers to turn out and arrest as many of the players and spectators as possible" All Sports (London) (17 June). Reprinted in Arthur Moreland, The Comic History of Sport, 1924, no. 21.
1922 Outer-lines of History by T. Le Breton. Signed G.D. Ally Sloper's Half Holiday (14 December). The adventures of Clawed Wangle.
1923 Outer-lines of History by T. Le Breton. Signed G.D. Ally Sloper's Half Holiday (20 January). The adventures of Clawed Wangle.
1923 "The Skin Game / CAVEMAN: 'Hold my wrist-watch, Phyllis. I said you should have a set of furs for Christmas'" By Stan Terry. The Bystander (1 December): 46.
1923 Buster Keaton, The Three Ages.
1924 "A Quiet Game of 'Squash' / How they dealt with an objector to mixed bathing in prehistoric times" By Heath Robinson. The Bystander (6 August).
1924 "THE EVOLUTION OF THE CAVE-MAN" By D. L. Chilchik. The Bystander (27 August): 2.
[1924] Arthur Moreland, The comic history of sport. London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd. Drawings from the illustrated weekly periodical All Sports. "The inception of sport. (No. 1) Stone-throwing in the stone-age."; "The origin of bird-nesting (No. 2)"; "Trapping mammoth in the Neolithic Age. (No. 3.)"; "Prehistoric angling. (No. 4.)"; "WRESTLING (No. 10.)"; "POSTMAN'S KNOCK (No. 12.)".
1924 "'You see, in prehistoric times men were made like this; the flesh and skin developed long afterwards.'" Le Pêle-mêle. Reprinted in Reynolds's Newspaper (16 November).
1925 The Co-Optimists at the palace. By MacMichael. The Bystander (7 January).
1925 "A Shooting Pain / A DESPERATE METHOD OF CURING PREHISTORIC TOOTHACHE" By Heath Robinson. The Bystander (4 February): 254.
1926 Movie poster "'The CAVE-MAN'" Warner Brothers.
1928 "Daydream" By Cuningham. The Bystander (18 July).
1928 "Cave-man negotiating for copper bangles." Eliminating the middleman. Daily Mirror (25 September).
1928 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Flying Elephants.
1929 "AN EARLY PLIOCENE ENTERTAINMENT. Tolerant spectator. 'After all, one should remember that this upright walking business is still in its infancy.'" By George Morrow. Punch (26 June): 715.
1920s "FERODO Brake Linings / perfect confidence in every emergency."
1920s "TREAT 'EM TOUGH, TREAT 'EM ROUGH IF YOU WANT THE GIRLS TO LOVE YOU GIVE 'EM CAVE-MAN STUFF." By Vera Paterson. Postcard.
1929 [Untitled cartoon of caveman family] By Pip. Daily Herald (30 December): 4. Man's family affairs ten million years ago by M. F. Ashley-Montagu- against H. F. Osborne.
c.1930 "'Cave-man' business which we are supposed to admire." Illustrating: E. A. Robertson, Women are not mysterious. Daily Mirror (28 March): 7.
1930 "TRANSPORT IN PREHISTORIC TIMES. —An incident in the railway centenary paejeant at Liverpool purport ing to represent the earliest of any means of transport. A caveman of prehistoric times dragging his bride along by the hair of her head. (By a 'Mercury' photographer.) " Morecambe Carnival-Silsden Show-The Railway Pageant. Leeds Mercury (15 September): 12. Also in the Sheffield Independent (15 September).
1930 "CAVE-MAN STUFF | An episode at the Railway Centenary at Liverpool portrays a primitive man dragging his bride along by her hair." Leeds Mercury (16 September): 4.
1931 "The Neanderthal Man—an amusing fellow though unsound in his views on Proportional Representation and unbecomingly hirsute..." By Alfred Leete. Illustration for an article by K. R. G. Browne on Idleness. Evening News (24 January): 6.
1931 "'...merely a relic of the Caveman Age.' | HUbby's little failing is merely a relic of the Caveman Age" Daily Chronicle (19 June): 13.
1931 " PESSIMISTIC CAVE-MAN (of Epicurean tastes): 'And now, I suppose, we shall have nothing by mammoth for every meal for the next six months.'" Punch. Reprinted in Newmarket Journal (11 July).
1932 "Reivindicando la memoria de Adán - El primer hombre" El Mundo (Puerto Rico) (24 January): 2.
1933 "A CRO-MAGNON PAINTER SELLS A MASTERPIECE." By George Morrow. Punch 184: 103.
1934 "'Prehistoric man frequently walked on all fours.'" Evening News (24 February): 8.
1936 Adventure (26 September): front cover.
1937 "Prehistoric Bath.-2 Taking the waters!" By Frank Keene. In the tradition of Prehistoric Peeps.
1930s? "The Tragedy of the Cavewoman, Grant's Pass, Ore." Josephine Co B1.
1930s? "Cavemen Grant's Pass, Ore."
1930s? "'Home Discipline', Grant's Pass, Ore." Josephine Co.
1930s? Oregon Caves National Monument RPPC. USA Postcard.
1937 "'WELL, IT'S EVIDENTLY MEANT TO BE YOUR AUNT MATILDA.'". Punch 192: 573.
[c.1937?] "I EXPECT YOU'RE WISHING FOR THE GOOD OLD TIMES." By Brian White, showing his character Nipper. Postcard.
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