Judge, 1889 · page 38 of 72
Judge — 1889 — page 38: what you’re looking at
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This page contains four separate satirical cartoons from Judge magazine, a late-19th-century American humor publication: 1. **"The Unconventionality of Country Life"**: Rural neighbors are depicted as crude and unsophisticated, playing crude games and treating social conventions casually—contrasting with urban propriety. 2. **"Complimentary to the Artist"**: A miser insults a portrait painter by saying the portrait is unflattering, implying the artist made him look bad. The lady's retort—that it's actually a perfect likeness—suggests the miser's own ugly appearance, not poor artistry. 3. **"A Necessary Accompaniment"**: A working-class Irishman (Mike) asks a doctor to provide food with medicine, implying poverty-era humor about the Irish struggling financially. 4. **"He Couldn't Stand the Comparison"**: A dealer praises a man's intelligence by comparing it to someone else's, but a parrot (apparently present) becomes so insulted by being compared unfavorably that it demands prussic acid (poison)—dark humor suggesting the parrot would rather die than endure such comparison. These exemplify Victorian-era social satire targeting class, ethnicity, and vanity.
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