• Title
  Volume 01-08: The Daily Telegraph war cartoons, 1914 / original drawings by Hal Eyre
• Call number
  PXD 518/nos. 1-38c
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1914
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  70010
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  41 drawings - ink - 63 x 50.5 cm.-50.5 x 63 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  Volume 01
  1. The European situation, 4 Aug
  2. The lion aroused. "Want war do you? Very well - Come on!", 6 Aug.
  3. Shade of the peacemaker ... 10 Aug 1914
  3b. Bravo Belgium! ... 11 Aug 1914
  4. 1815-1914, Shade of Napoleon (to the Kaiser) - `come over here!'
  
  Volume 02
  5. German Empire ... Aug 15th
  6. Moving him on - Japan (with the utmost politeness) - "Will the honourable German graciously move on please?" Aug 20th 1914
  7. The Kaiser's nightmare - the English Expeditionary Force has landed safely in France and is speeding to the seat of war, Aug 22nd 1914
  8. Recognising bravery - England & France (to the man who held the fort) - "Bravo! Belgium, you were indeed the right man in the right place"
  9. The sower. What will the harvest be? - Aug 22nd
  
  Volume 03
  10. The Day - The British bull-dog: "The day is here so why don't you come out & fight? "
  11. "Coming events -"
  12. Austria and the bear - The Austrian Army, owing to the victory of the Russians is now an unimportant factor in the war, news item. Sept 10th 1914
  13. The British way - Government notice, during the war no bye-elections will be contested signed John Bull, England
  14. Winged - It is officially reported that the German Army in France is retreating rapidly in a disorganised condition before the French & British Allied Forces. Sept 15th 1914
  
  Volume 04
  15. The price of admiralty - The Min. for Defence has announced that the Australian submarine AE1 with 35 officers & men has been lost
  16. The writing on the wall - Berlin is being placarded with posters on which is written "We want peace"
  17. Mine laying - John Bull: "This mine-laying is a game I don't take to but I must play according to German rules"
  18. Still they come - Indian troops have landed in France. The Kaiser: "Ach! here is another one!", Oct 8th 1914
  19. Little Jap horner, Oct 10th 1914
  
  Volume 05
  20. The line of least resistance - Germany: "What a great warrior am I! only 2 months ago I started to conquer the world and since then I've been almost to Paris & back again, and I've broken the back of this large ferocious lion", Oct 13th 1914
  21. Still at large - Germany: "So! here's the Belgian lions den alright; but the lion & his cubs are not herein", Oct 17th
  22. Not yet - Germany: "Come with me & share my victories" Turkey: "Please excuse me, I haven't got my punch back yet"
  23. Not received
  24. The German soldiers load - The German soldiers `fighting for freedom' will be a decided gainer - if he is defeated
  25. Carried away - Turkey: "Allah be merciful! this German bred beast has bolted"
  
  Volume 06
  26. Turkey's mistake - Turkey (to Russia after shooting) "I beg your pardon Mr Bear, I didn't mean to, I didn't know it was loaded" Nov 5th 1914
  27. Huffed - During a raid off the English coast by seven German cruisers the British submarine D5 was sunk, the Germans escaped (news item). The Kaiser: "I'll huff you John for not taking my man". John Bull: "But the game is not finished yet"
  28. The incoming tide - German colonies, Nov 10th 1914
  29. A feather in his cap. H.M.A.S. Sydney engaged the famous German cruiser Emden off the Cocos Islands with the result that the Emden was run ashore on Nth Cocos Island & became a total wreck (news item)
  30. Our ally - King Winter ... of the severe European winter the Germans are falling back, Nov 14th 1914
  
  Volume 07
  31. But his spirit lives
  32. The double-headed eagle bites - Turkey: "Bismillah! I forgot this Russian eagle has two beaks"
  33. Another German `success' - Gen. von Hindenberg (to the Kaiser) "I've got him your majesty but I haven't quite annihilated him"
  34. Scotch that snake (treason), Oct 29th 1914
  35. Scotched (treason)
  
  Volume 08
  36. Now it's Warsaw - The Prussian soldier: "First it's Paris, then it's Calais, now it's Warsaw, where next?"
  37. `Murdered sleep' - The Kaiser's condition is causing grave concern. He is reported to be in a highly nervous state & suffers from sleeplessness
  38. Another attempted German outrage - The German party (to Santa Claus) "Halt! by command of the Kaiser you are not to appear this season"
  38b. Peace: "Won't you please come inside and talk it over?" - Efforts are being made to secure a peaceful settlement of the dispute between Austria & Servia by the neutral powers (news item)
  38c. On the road to Paris - Germany: "We're coming closer to Paris John Bull". John Bull: "The further you advance the longer will be the road back to Berlin"
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Published Information
  A selection of these drawings are reproduced in:¶The "Daily Telegraph" War cartoons : a collection of cartoons / by Hal Eyre. Sydney : Watkin Wynne for the Daily Telelgraph, [19-]
• General note
  
  State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I pictorial material
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1012339
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Hal Eyre lower edge
• Conservation note
  
  Some drawings are on artists prepared coated paper
• Name
  World War (1914-1918)
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  caricatures
  cartoons
  wars
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Life Interrupted: Personal Diaries from World War I - State Library of New South Wales (5 July - 21 September, 2014)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1508441

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