Australian magazine
Melbourne Punch (from 1900, simply titled Punch ) was an Australian illustrated magazine founded by Edgar Ray and Frederick Sinnett ,[1] and published from August 1855 to December 1925. The magazine was modelled closely on Punch of London which was founded fifteen years earlier.[2] [3] A similar magazine, Adelaide Punch , was published in South Australia from 1878 to 1884.
History
Satirical self-portrait of the Melbourne Punch engraver Samuel Calvert , 2 August 1855
Ray and Sinnett published the magazine 1855–1883, followed by Alex McKinley 1883.[3]
Staff artists included Nicholas Chevalier 1855–1861, Tom Carrington 1866–1887, J. H. Leonard 1886[4] – c. 1891.
Contributing artists included J. C. Bancks , Luther Bradley , Samuel Calvert , O. R. Campbell , George Dancey , Tom Carrington , Tom Durkin , Ambrose Dyson and his brother Will Dyson , S. T. Gill , Alex Gurney , Hal Gye , Percy Leason , Emile Mercier , Alex Sass , Montague Scott , Alf Vincent , Samuel Garnet Wells , and Cecil "Unk" White .[2] [5]
Editors included Frederick Sinnett (1855–1857), James Smith (1857–1863), Charles Bright (1863–1866), William Jardine Smith (1866-1869), Tom Carrington (intermittently) and John Bede Dalley (1924).
Writers included Butler Cole Aspinall , Charles Gavan Duffy , R. H. Horne, James Smith, Thomas Carrington and Nicholas Chevalier.[3]
It was involved in the creation of The Ashes cricket trophy in 1883.
It incorporated the Melbourne Bulletin in 1886, after which it became more involved with "society" news.[3]
A cartoon titled "BAIL-UP!" in 1900 was possibly the first published use of the Kelly Gang in a satirical context.
It was acquired by The Melbourne Herald in 1924 and amalgamated with Table Talk in 1926.[5]
An annual, variously titled Punch Almanac , Melbourne Punch Almanack , Melbourne Punch's Office Almanack and similar, was published for a time.[6]
The publication was Folio size and initially contained 8 pages, increasing to 12 pages in 1878 and was 18 pages by 1891.[7] It sold for sixpence .
References
^ Mennell, Philip (1892). "Sinnett, Frederick" . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography . London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource .
^ a b Lindesay, Vane The Inked-In Image Heinemann Melbourne 1970 ISBN 0-09-135460-9
^ a b c d Melbourne Punch
^ "Police Court—Adelaide" . The Express and Telegraph . Vol. XXIII, no. 6, 736. South Australia. 7 June 1886. p. 2. Retrieved 27 January 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
^ a b McCullough, Alan Encyclopedia of Australian Art Hutchinson of London 1968 ISBN 0-09-081420-7
^ Melbourne punch's almanack
^ Lurline Stuart (1979), Nineteenth Century Australian Periodicals; an annotated bibliography , Sydney, Hale & Iremonger, p.109. ISBN 0908094531
Literature
Mahood, Marguerite The Loaded Line 1973
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