Pick of the week: Living up to the teapot with a punchline

George du Maurier (1834-96) joined the staff at Punch magazine in 1865, drawing two ink cartoons a week until his eyesight deteriorated in 1891. His most common targets were the affected manners of Victorian society and Britain’s growing middle class in particular.

The original ink drawing for one of his most famous cartoons lampooning the porcelain collecting c…

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