Picture No | 11093057 |
Date | 1917 |
Description | A Prophecy by Harold Earnshaw |
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Cartoon by Harold Earnshaw depicting three types of courtship - stone age man dragging a woman, a civilised marriage during the First World War (when this cartoon was drawn) and then, in the future, hoards of women chasing a single young officer. A comment on the dwindling numbers of marriageable men available due to casualties of the war.
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Source | Illustration by Harold Earnshaw in The Sketch magazine, 26 December 1917 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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