how political cartoonists have handled the death of a monarch, from Victoria to Elizabeth II
- Written by Richard Scully, Associate Professor of Modern European History, University of New England
Francis Carruthers Gould, 'The Mourner', Fun, February 2, 1901.It sounds very familiar – a well-respected monarch dies, and a radical, left-leaning, Antipodean cartoonist struggles to find the right tone to commemorate the event.
He is torn between his distaste for what he sees as the archaic, pre-modern institution of monarchy, and the...





