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Date: 1933 - 1996 - 1939

By: Hocken Library; Low, David Alexander Cecil (Sir), 1891-1963

Reference: Eph-C-GRAPHIC-ARTS-1996-02

Description: Shows an arrangement of text, with a central cartoon by David Low: "The scum of the earth, I believe? The bloody assassin of the workers, I presume?" Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 415 x 297 mm.

Date: 1911

By: Low, David Alexander Cecil (Sir), 1891-1963

Reference: C-047-021

Description: A set of vignettes concerning current political and social matters in Christchurch and beyond. 'Music hath charms' shows the Salvation Army band 'leading a mutiny against the City Council' while they play loudly outside the Christchurch City Council buildings. A drunk man, seen in Dunedin, carries a large sandwich board 'Prohibition a blunder'. A cricket player getting bowled relates to 'South African cricketers' against the Australians in their 5th test. A London professor snoozes under a tree, after stating that 'the sun could do all world's work'. Two small boys, one with an executioner's axe, his dead parents behind him, discuss the murder of the parents after his mother refused to give him a penny to buy lollies. Relates to a newspaper account of a boy in Dunedin reacting violently to strict parents, including his trying to hang himself. A self portrait shows Low sobbing into his handkerchief, while he draws Tommy Taylor, but regrets the ending of the political life of Joseph Ward and William Massey for caricature purposes. Councillor Thacker pulling up a tree from Cathedral Square in the process of transplanting it rather that cutting it down. A confrontation between Britain and Kaiser Bill is about importing goods between the two countries. Four elderly men in a punch-up, holding a placard 'Peace perfect peace' refers to Dowieites in Zion City rioting Other Titles - soothe Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - David Low recit [sic] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink 522 x 358 mm

Date: 1905 - 1915

From: Low, David 1891-1963 :Caricatures and cartoons [ca 1905-1916]

By: Low, David Alexander Cecil (Sir), 1891-1963

Reference: B-025-030

Description: A tall slender man with moustache and hair parted in the centre, wearing the military uniform of a senior commander. He is holding a hat with white plumes in his hand and has a sword at his side. Behind him is a motley line-up of soldiers. Probably a portrait of Lord Islington, Governor-General, inspecting Christchurch troops Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink 468 x 365 mm

Date: 1907

From: Booth, Leonard Hampden, 1879-1974 :[Cuttings of cartoons and caricatures from the "Exhibition sketcher" (Christchurch), the "Triad", and the "Sydney bulletin". 1906-1915].

By: Low, David Alexander Cecil (Sir), 1891-1963

Reference: A-350-009

Description: Shows two full-body standing caricatures, one of Thomas Edward Donne, who became secretary of the new Department of Tourist and Health Resorts in 1901; and on the verso, a full profile of Christchurch dentist Mr J H Fountain Extended Title - From: The exhibition sketcher, Feb 2, 1907, p 9-10 Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on pages of journal; sizes vary Provenance: Donated by Ms Honiana Love, in 2000.

Date: 1933 - 1996 - 1939

By: Hocken Library; Low, David Alexander Cecil (Sir), 1891-1963

Reference: Eph-C-GRAPHIC-ARTS-1996-01

Description: Shows an arrangement of text, with a central cartoon by David Low: "It's queer how you remind me of someone, Josef ...", showing an orthodox Communist watching Russian leader Josef Stalin trimming his moustache to look like German leader Adolf Hitler. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 417 x 295 mm.

Date: 1911

By: Low, David Alexander Cecil (Sir), 1891-1963

Reference: C-047-005

Description: Vignettes reflecting current affairs. 'Woes of a cartoonist' shows David Low, his head in his hands, desperately trying to avoid a Wellington problem, where an MP is prosecuting a cartoonist for depicting him from his back view. In a related sketch alongside, Christchurch Mayor, Tommy Taylor, threatens to prosecute the cartoonists, having recognised his own hair in a drawing. A Finnish village is shown chained to the mainland, after a whole village was reported to have floated away in Finland. A ghost threatens a Christchurch City Councillor with a long white beard. The councillor does not known his own mind. A farmer races away after being confronted in Canada with 80,000 prospective brides, a recent reported event. 'The Jap Polar expedition' shows a group of Japanese men greeting the Japanese consul in Christchurch, after their unexpected arrival. Neither group can understand the other, and Japanese script spelling out whisky, cow and banzai is shown. 'The great gas box, via canal' shows a box containing a gas tank too large to travel via the Lyttelton tunnel being hauled by a traction engine. There is also a reference to a proposed canal between Lyttelton and Christchurch as an alternative means of transport. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink 530 x 405 mm

Date: 1911

By: Low, David Alexander Cecil (Sir), 1891-1963

Reference: C-047-001

Description: Vignettes reflecting issues current in 1911. 'Captain Scott was surprised to find the Amundsen expedition at the Polar regions' continues with 'Our pessimistic artist things he may possibly get a greater surprise when he reaches the Pole' and shows a Japanese man seated on The South Pole with Scott and another man drawing up alongside with their dog sled. 'No less than 4 prize fighters died in the ring last month' shows a boxer fighting against Death as a skeleton. 'Bridged. The Hon R. McKenzie opened the new Waiau bridge last week' shows McKenzie standing astride the Waiau River and forming a bridge out of his body. 'Massey at large' shows William Massey as a goat, making a very-badly received speech at Kaiapoi. A man being booted out of a gaol refers to the reduction in Johnson the pugilist's gaol sentence. The shocked schoolboy shows two small boys trying not to look at a poster of a scantily-clad dancer, the 'Champagne Girl' performing at an Auckland's Theatre Royal. Lord Lansdowne kneels before George V with Lord Asquith in the background, over the matter of the Crown creating new peerages. 'Dress rehearsal' shows Sir Joseph Ward in Irish costume, dancing an Irish jig before his visit to Ireland. 'Canal pies' shows a small boy contemplating the purchase of two very expensive pies, a larger one for a proposed canal between Lyttelton and Christchurch, a smaller one for Sumner to Heathcote. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil, 533 x 385 mm

Date: 1911

By: Low, David Alexander Cecil (Sir), 1891-1963

Reference: C-047-020

Description: Vignettes on current issues. The record buster shows the Minister of Railways, John Millar, seated astride a train, 'prosperity' with a caption about the record profits of New Zealand Railways. A Scotsman in uniform with a very long sporran illustrates a report of an article about Scots soldiers having their kilts taken from them, but not their sporrans. Sir Joseph Ward is depicted as a dog tangled up in rope, 'dedicated to Mr D Jones' with a reference to giving a dog a long enough rope and he'll hang himself. 'Magician Poole' is shown placing an extinguisher, National Prohibition' over a barrel of alcohol. 'Messrs Allen and Herries are conducting the Opposition campaign, shows James Allen and William Herries flogging an almost dead horse, 'The Conservative Party'. Tommy Taylor scrubs a boy with tar, under the heading 'The Mayor proposes to tar 30 miles of Christchurch streets'. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink 525 x 380 mm

Date: 1911

By: Low, David Alexander Cecil (Sir), 1891-1963

Reference: C-047-026

Description: A view of the Pyramids and the Sphinx. The Sphinx has the face of a New Zealand politician, possibly Sir James Carrolll. He is wearing a complacent expression, has a huia feather in his hair and is smoking a pipe; the nearby Pyramid has the face of Sir Joseph Ward, who is smirking and winking at another man who stumbles at the foot of the pyramid, trying to hold up a pole bearing the words 'Opp[osition] arguments'. Across the bottom of the pyramid is the word 'prosperity' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink 391-356 mm