The Monitor: Automatic but not fool-proof by H.M. Bateman
"The Monitor.
Automatic, but not fool-proof: a war-drama in nine fits."
This Bateman cartoon from World War One sends up the jingoistic, often misguided, enthusiasm for war amongst the upper classes. A monocled gentleman insists that his friend has no idea how to fire a revolver and, offering to demonstrate, ends up nearly having both of them killed
Picture No
10956491
Media ID
45585017
Size
4098px x 6424px
(2.0MB)
Credit
©Estate of H M Bateman/ILN/Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Illustration by H. M. Bateman in The Sketch, 4 November 1914
Date
1914





























