Punchinello (Fictitious character)

Date: 1958

From: [Theatre ephemera and programmes for music-hall, comedy and variety productions in New Zealand, in 1958].

Reference: Eph-A-VARIETY-1958-01

Description: A programme for the puppet theatre performed by Raymond Boyce and Geraldine Kean. Items included: Sabre dancers, The Owl Who Was God, From the Circus, Mowtan the Tartar and the Chinese Princess: The Shadow Theatre; The King Stag, a tragi-comedy form the play by Carlo Gozzi. Front cover shows Mr Punch in a black and red design. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph on folded programme 226 x 144 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr I W Parker in 1976.

Date: 1958 - 1960

From: [Theatre programmes for variety, comedy, and music-hall shows and performances toured throughout New Zealand. 1950-1959].

By: Harry H Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-VARIETY-1958-01

Description: Flier advertising a performance by Raymond Boyce and Geraldine Kean, produced by the Community Arts Service in the Wellington Concert Chamber on September 9th and 10th. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on flier, 253 x 125 mm.

Date: 20 August 2014

From: Winter, Mark, 1958-: Original cartoons by Chicane (Mark Winter), from 2007-2018

By: Winter, Mark, 1958-; Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: A-478-017

Description: Cartoon depicts Prime Minister John Key as a Punch puppet on the hand of Justice Minister Judith Collins as a Judy puppet. Key is warning Collins that its her "last chance", but Collins is larger and wields a baton. Refers to Key's vulnerable position due to revelations about National Party connections to Slater detailed in the book 'Dirty Politics'. It suggests that Collins has the upper hand. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, felt-tip pen and whiteout on paper, 210 x 300mm

Date: 1893 - 1894

By: Swain, Joseph, 1820-1909; Matheson, Elizabeth, 1890-1978

Reference: A-162-011

Description: Shows an imaginary scene, with Mr Punch and Titania standing in an elevated place at the left, while people, pixies and animals, some with labels, are engaged in various activities around them. Labels include: local veto bill, panic, anarchy, sloth, strife, Opposition, majority, strikes, forty thieves, unionism, spite. Verso handwritten notes: Posted in Formosa by H.C.M. Sank in the S.S. Wairarapa 1896. Recovered and delivered by postal auhorities to W.B.M. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Swain sc. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 255 x 420 mm on sheet 280 x 457 mm. Processing information: Previously located at: Curios-014-002

Date: 2013

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

Reference: DCDL-0025631

Description: Depicts Prime Minister John Key as puppet master operating a Punch and Judy show for the public. Punch is played by Social Development Minister Paula Bennet who is bashing a solo mother with children with a bat labelled 'benefit cuts'. The audience is calling for Punch to "Bash the Benie". Refers to major social welfare reforms bought in by Bennett which are expected to cut thousands of people off benefits and penalise solo parents. Reforms include reducing all exsisting benefits to three new categories, drug testing, clearing outstanding warrants for arrest, requiring all sickness, mental health patient and solo parent beneficiaries to look for work (see Otago Daily Times 15 July 2013). This cartoon suggests that Key is the behind the scenes architect of the reforms, and that the reforms are a entertainment and distraction for the public. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0029133

Description: Cartoon depicts Prime Minister John Key as a Punch puppet on the hand of Justice Minister Judith Collins as a Judy puppet. Key is warning Collins that its her "last chance", but Collins is larger and wields a baton. Refers to Key's vulnerable position due to revelations about National Party connections to Slater detailed in the book 'Dirty Politics'. It suggests that Collins has the upper hand. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1957

From: Boyce, Raymond Stanley, 1928-2019 :[Forty-seven sheets of costume and set design drawings for productions in Wellington by New Zealand Ballet, Downstage, New Zealand Opera, and the Puppet Theatre 1957-1969]

Reference: C-164-027

Description: Shows a puppet theatre set as seen from behind the sketched-in audience. The set has a gold tower on either side with a parapet or bridge linking the two towers. From the right hand tower a witch or wizard trains a telescope on a red-jacketed soldier, and beneath the parapet, Punch the jester pokes his head out of a shuttered opening. Raymond and Geraldine Boyce ran the Puppet Theatre ca 1957-1963. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Gouache & ink and crayon on dark grey board, 440 x 360 mm.

Date: 1865

By: Punch in Canterbury (Periodical)

Reference: J-065-010

Description: Punch reviews a parade of volunteer soldiers wearing a mix of uniforms. Extended Title - Major General Punch - Volunteers! During the past year your numbers have largely increased, and you have greatly improved in discipline and efficiency. You have devoted much time to drill, and have prepared yourselves to defend your country in time of need. For all this your country is deeply grateful. And the ladies, therefore, hope to see you at the Queen's Birthday ball, to exhibit the nice unforms that your grateful country has promised to supply. Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: A5 size bromide of wood engraving print