Phil May and Leo Cheney Collection 1890-1948

Cheney, Leo, 1878-1928

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Born in Wortley, near Leeds, in 1864, Phil May was a social and political caricaturist. His most popular works deal with lower and middle-class London life in the late Victorian period, and his later cartoons include some excellent political portraits. May worked as a cartoonist on the St Stephen's Review, where his studies of the London guttersnipe and the coaster girl earned him fame. In 1892 he launched his own annual, and shortly after began contributing cartoons to Punch, becom...

May Philip William 1864-1903

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Cheney, Leo, 1878-1928

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Born in Wortley, near Leeds, in 1864, Phil May was a social and political caricaturist. His most popular works deal with lower and middle-class London life in the late Victorian period, and his later cartoons include some excellent political portraits. May worked as a cartoonist on the St Stephen's Review, where his studies of the London guttersnipe and the coaster girl earned him fame. In 1892 he launched his own annual, and shortly after began contributing cartoons to Punch, becom...