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What Shall I Read You Now, Dear?, 1927

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William Ridgewell (1881-1937)
​Cartoon taken from a disbound copy of the Punch Almanack, 1927
In a cream conservation grade mount (matt)
In very good condition, as illustrated
Cartoon: 11.3 x 17.5 cm (visible); mount: 20.4 x 25.4 cm (8" x 10")
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William Leigh Ridgewell (1881-1937)
Ridgewell was born at Brighton and studied at that town’s School of Art. Initially a commercial artist, Ridgewell ‘got into the habit of thinking humorously’ during active service in India during the First World War (Bryant and Heneage, 1994). He began submitting cartoons to Punch after the war.
As Price (1957) noted, ‘[Ridgewell’s] jokes varied between the routine suburban-life jokes… and jokes that depended on eccentricity of incongruity. At the time it seemed sometimes as though Ridgewell were given space as the odd piece of relief, the strongly individual turn that set off the rest of the programme. He did not seem likely to be a harbinger of a complete change of style in the paper; but he was.’
 
Sources and further reading
Bryant M and Heneage S (1994), Dictionary of British Cartoonists and Caricaturists 1730-1980, Scolar Press
Dolman B (1981), A Dictionary of British Artists, 1929, Antique Collectors’ Club
Price R G G (1957), A History of Punch, Collins

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