— “Fun” on the Temple Bar Memorial (1862) (original) (raw)

The City Obstruction game; or the Corporation Toy. John Gordon Thomson. Fun (24 November 1880): 207. Directions: — “Stick up something between a RockingHorse, a Jack-in-the-Box, and am “Early Village Cock,” on a big pedestal in the middle of a crowded thoroughfare, and watch the result.”

From an Internet Archive online version of a copy int he Princeton University Library. Click on image to enlarge it.

The Temple Bar Memorial, other cartoons, and its sculpture

• Alice in Blunderland (John Tenniel's cartoon about the Memorial in Punch)
• Bonnie Bar-gee (Linley Sambourne's cartoon about the Memorial in Punch)
• "Take away that Bauble!" (Harry Funiss's cartoon about the Memorial in Punch)
• Sir Horace Jones's The Temple Bar Memorial (1880)
• Sir Christopher Wren's original Temple Bar as re-erected in Paternoster Square in 2004
• Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales Going to St. Paul's by Charles J. Samuel Kelsey
• Time and Fortune Draw a Curtain Over Temple Bar by Charles Henry Mabey
• Queen Victoria's Progress to the Guildhall London Nov. 9th 1837 by Charles Henry Mabey
• Queen Victoria by Sir Joseph Boehm
• Edward Prince of Wales by Sir Joseph Boehm
• Griffin by Charles Birch
• Friezes on the Temple Bar Memorial

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