Ronald Searle Tribute

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King Edward VII

December 8, 2024, 2:32 am

Spectacular drawing for HOLIDAY magazine, 1958.

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Germany

December 10, 2024, 12:45 pm

The British caricaturist Ronald Searle was on a four day visit of Germany on invitiation of SDR. Interview with Ronald Searle. (August 26th 1959)

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The shadow Ronald Searle's style casts over other cartoonists is pervasive. It was said once you've seen his style it's hard to draw any other way. From Mad Magazine's Mort Drucker and Jack Davis to...

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The Admiral and the Con Man

January 7, 2025, 7:00 am

The art director at The New Yorker knew Searle was the right illustrator for this story! (from 2002)The Mythical Fortune That Fuelled America’s Greatest FraudPosing as a British lord, Oscar Hartzell...

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Saintly

February 5, 2025, 8:22 am

A St. Trinians piece from an old Chris Beetles catalogue that I don't think I'd ever seen.

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'The Female Approach' 1949

February 16, 2025, 1:07 pm

Original cover art.

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Searle the art instructor

February 21, 2025, 10:10 pm

A fascinating item at auction recently reveals Searle to be a mentor to a fellow artist while incarcerated in Changi Gaol by the Japanese in WWII. I'd never heard of him teaching in this capacity...

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Animal Farm

February 26, 2025, 11:11 pm

Here's a tantalizing prospect: imagine Orwell's 'Animal Farm' illustrated by Searle... he never did it of course but a second-hand bookseller turned up this item - a 1962 edition, Seaerle's own copy,...

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'I Have No Gun But I Can Spit'

March 9, 2025, 4:54 pm

'I Have No Gun, But I can Spit'. An Anthology of satirical and abusive verse selected by Kenneth Baker-Published by Eyre Methuen, London, 1980Original artwork. View a comprehensive gallery of 'Book...

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Take One Toad

April 7, 2025, 11:42 am

Some of the original drawings from 'Take One Toad' (1968) have been sold at auction in recent years. They're stunning, large-format, color drawings. The book is a good size too and there are sometimes...

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Khrushchev

April 22, 2025, 11:56 am

Alternative versionNikita Khrushchev in New York, 1960 pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolourHoliday Magazine, New York, 1960.

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Magazine Illustration Part 5 :

August 23, 2025, 1:23 am

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING magazine (1959)

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Anthony Quayle

September 7, 2025, 2:39 pm

The Searles were friendly with British actor Anthony Quayle whose birthday is today!Ronald Searle, artist (1920-2011). Pair of Original Copper Printing Plates Depicting Anthony Quayle as Falstaff. A...

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Searle's favorite painting

November 13, 2025, 7:14 pm

Vauxhall Gardens, 1784, by Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827), Victoria & Albert Museum.From Country Life magazine.Ronald Searle on Vauxhall Gardens, 1784 by Thomas Rowlandson‘Obsessed as I am with the...

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Parents Take Hart

November 16, 2025, 10:19 pm

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Happy Thanksgiving!

November 27, 2025, 9:40 pm

I wish I had discovered this one for my book ‘Ronald Searle’s America’! It’s in the JFK Presidential Library. Looks like a HOLIDAY magazine commission. ‘A man on a donkey gazes at a tall, ornate...

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Merry Christmas!

December 23, 2025, 10:20 pm

Merry Xmas from the Lemonharts.The above is obviously Nov 5th but included for its similarity to the image beneath.

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Dehiberation Survey

December 27, 2025, 11:31 pm

A beautiful double page spread from Punch magazine March 23, 1952.

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Macbeth

December 30, 2025, 7:23 am

Searle on "The Scottish Play".

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Almanack

January 4, 2026, 11:49 am

From the Punch magazine 'Almanack' special issuesNov 5th, 1956

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BOAC

January 15, 2026, 9:45 pm

Thanks to Denis Murphy for the scans!

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Searle's birthday!

March 3, 2026, 6:27 am

Let's celebrate Ronald Searle's birthday (March, 3rd) with a Lemonhart Rum update!Even after 20 years researching Searle's work I still find pieces I'm unfamiliar with such as this wonderful Lemonhart...

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Flower of Cities

March 11, 2026, 12:47 pm

Searle illustrated a chapter in the beautifully produced anthology on London 'Flower of Cities' (Parrish, 1949). His drawings appear alongside many contemporary artist and writers. Searle's work...

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The New Yorker

March 12, 2026, 5:40 am

'Garbage' for 'The New Yorker'Unpublished cover for 'The New Yorker'(collection of Peter de Seve)See more Searle cartoons for 'The New Yorker'here and here and his run of covers for the magazine here

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TV Guide

March 19, 2026, 7:56 am

31 July, 1976For comparison of Searle's Carroll O'Connor here's his cover for 'All In The Family'.See my book 'Ronald Searle's America' for the collected TV Guide artwork including many scanned form...

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