Pandean pipes: history gallery 3

UK history: Over one century of the panpipes and tabor

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The majority are extracts from larger pictures and prints. Links to originals are given, where possible. If you have any more information on any of these images, or you are the copyright holder and I have not managed to get in touch with you, please do let me know.

page 3 - late Victorian

1852 sketch by Charles James Lewis

for May Day dancing 1857

painting, playing for acrobats 1858

street eentertainers 1859

children's poetry book illustration 1859

Suburban Fair, 1860

playing for acrobats 1860 10114159

photograph 1860's

for puppet show

playing for Punch and Judy c 1860

'The Punch and Judy Show'
by T Webster mid-Victorian

indoor Punch and Judy show 1860

playing for street acrobats 1861 10221908

playing at a fair, date unknown

1861 Metropolitan Gossip 1861

Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1875) Thursday 1 August 1861 - Page 2

1862 newspaper cutting describing Catan Hill Fair 1862 newspaper cutting

West Surrey Times - Saturday 04 October 1862

1864 ‘Outdoor Music in London’ 1864

1864 Punch magazine

1865

"The sweeps of Ryde revived Jack-in-the-Green on May-day, and he cut the usual capers to the music of a full band, consisting of chin-pipes, drum, scrapers, and shovels. Some old ones and all young ones were amused with the grotesque display, so the venture seemed a profitable one."

The Isle of Wight Observer, 6 May 1865, page 3.

1865 a play extract 1865

Prince Hassan and the gnome king; or, The lure, the cure, and the swallow! A new and original burlesque extravaganza ...
first performed at The Swiss Gardens, Shoreham, on Monday, June 5, '65, etc by John Edward ROE · 1865

1865 a play extract 1865

Ulysses; or the Ironclad Warriors and the Little Tug of War by F.C. Burnand (1865).
quoted in Victorian Epic Burlesques A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Theatrical Entertainments After Homer
by Rachel Bryant Davies · 2020

1869

King George's Middy by William Gilbert page 293

1872 story

“.. The Pilgrims held a conversation one day, at a little breakfast in my library, on the unflagging renown of Punch, of the streets, of Punch the unconquerable vagabond! Nobody could remember an occasion when Mr. Punch's performance had fallen flat.
…In our enthusiasm we agreed to bring him, drum and pipes and all, into the club smoking-room one evening, and have him all to ourselves, over our cigars. The night came: the room was crowded with a great company of men who knew how to laugh, and who had made up their minds to have a merry time of it. The show was as good as I have ever seen in the streets. Swift action of the puppets; a capital Toby, with a face of admirably profound melancholy; such a performer on the pipes, such a drum! But, it was a dead failure: the very dreariest night I can remember. We couldn't, and we tried hard, get up the smallest laugh."

‘A pilgrimage’, by Gustave Dore and Blanchard Jerrold, 1872 CHAPTER XX LONDON AT PLAY

1875 in the chuirchyard: 1875

‘School days at Rugby. by an old boy’ by Hughes, Thomas

1880 newspaper commentary 1880 Eastbourne Chronicle - Saturday 14 February 1880

1880 Jack in the Green: One writer, evidently privvy to covert practices among at least one set of sweeps, apparently during the years around 1880, usefully noted how:

"First of all, in priority of engagement, is the musician. He must be able to play the drum - a tolerably easy achievement, in their style of performance, I should say - and the Pandean pipes, or mouth organ ; a less easy thing to do."

1881 from: ‘Patience or Bunthornes Bridge Program – a comic opera’
(a procession of maidens. They are dancing classically, and playing on cymbals, double pipes,
and other archaic instruments.)

Chorus.
Let the merry cymbals sound,
Gayly pipe Pandean pleasure;..."

1883

“.. An artful and enterprising speculator, judging that amongst the kindliest recollections of the old country,
in the hearts of those who had emigrated therefrom, Punch and Judy would occupy no mean position, had induced all the Punch men that were procurable to pack up their theatres and their drums and Pandean pipes… sign for a twelvemonth's engagement to perform in the streets of the United States of America…”

‘Mysteries of Modern London, by One of the Crowd’ by James Greenwood, [1883] - Street Entertainments

1884

London Evening Standard - Thursday 28 August 1884

1884 Australia

The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Thursday 8 May 1884 - Page 6

Victorian painting for Punch and Judy
by Sarah Louisa Kilpack

puppet booth 1860's

pot lid, Mayday dancers at the Swan Inn 1860

mid-Victorian

with Punch and Judy 1860's

with Punch 1861

with Punch and Judy 1860's

with Jack-in-the-Green procession 1863

in a rowing boat 1863

1865 Punch cartoon 1865
© Ashmolean Museum

one-man-band (mouth-organ?) 1865

summer festival 1867

with fantoccini 1869

playing for street juggling c.1870
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indoor children's party, Harper’s Weekly 1871

1872 with Punch and Judy 1872 page 6

Punch and Judy Christmas card 1870's

street entertainer, Mulready,
date not known

with Punch and Judy 1874

'London Characters' book 1874
Image copyright © Bishopsgate Institute

'The Original Punch and Judy' 1874

with dancing dog 1876

music cover (unknown date)

Punch and Judy 1879

Punch and Judy 1880
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Punch and Judy 1880 10067614

Ireland 1880

unknown 1880?

Judy Magazine cartoon 1880

1881 New Zealand, Punch and Judy satirical cartoon Supplement to: The Daily Advertiser. Wellington, 26th November 1881

Christmas indoor Punch and Judy show 1882

advertisement 1883

Punch and Judy postcard 1883

1885 'Brother Bruin' by Christina Georgina Rossetti

“A dancing Bear grotesque and funny
Earned for his master heaps of money,
Gruff yet good-natured, fond of honey,
And cheerful if the day was sunny.
Past hedge and ditch, past pond and wood
He tramped, and on some common stood;
There cottage children circling gaily,
He in their midmost footed daily.
Pandean pipes and drum and muzzle
Were quite enough his brain to puzzle:…

unknown date with Jack-in-the-Green source