The hot soup man at the front, First World War Size:Large: 7 x 5in Punch takes one of the

Punch takes one of the journal's regular digs at the absurd world of ladies' fashion with a look at the spirit of competition between two young women

'The moving panorama

Figures 1-15 Studies of Gymnaspis aechmeae

His left hand rests on an open book with other volumes bookended on the table

The 'pharmacist' Mr Gladstone has concocted a tincture which he presents for immediate consumption by the unwilling Disraeli

The hot soup man at the front, First World War Size:Large: 7 x 5in Punch takes one of theThe hot soup man at the front, First World War, 1916, (c1920). Illustration from The Illustrated War Record of the Most Notable Episodes in the Great European War 1914 1918, seventh edition, (The Swarthmore Press Ltd, London, c1920).