Does anyone recognize this illustration - little girl dancing with gentleman pig?

They are nothing that Google Image search recognizes, but Google is not the "be all and end all" by any means.

Are they prints, or watercolor?

 

They look to me like hand-colored prints. The dancers are adorable, but what's going on with the second? A drunk guy by a lamp-post and a shocked couple looking at a giant boy?

Edit - I guess the lamp post guy is laughing...

 

That boy reminds me of the son of a friend of mine. He grew 13 inches in one year!

 

Definitely out-grew his clothes from head to toe at a swift pace! Looks like it should go with either a story or a poem.

Love the piggy!

 

I love the piggy one too. However, the style of the other looks very familiar...

 

Maybe this Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme...

COME, DANCE A JIG
Come, dance a jig To my granny's pig,
With a raudy, rowdy, dowdy,
Come, dance a jig To my granny's pig,
And pussy-cat shall crowdy.
https://www.google.com/#q=Come+Dance+a+Jig+to+My+Granny's+Pig

 

The dancing pig sketch is probably based on the 1907 4 minute burlesque film
"The Dancing Pig" - original title "Le cochon danseur" - by the French company Pathe.

"In the film, a giant anthropomorphic pig, dressed in human fancy clothes, dances with a girl, who later embarrasses him by tearing his clothes off. The two start to dance together, then walk into the curtains behind them. A disturbing scene is then shown where you see the pig moving his tongue and eyes around and then baring his teeth."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Cochon_Danseur


https://www.google.com/search?q=The...ved=0ahUKEwj4l62j1PTJAhUGHh4KHQJzCmQQ_AUIBigB

The sketch looks like something that might have appeared in the New Yorker?

--- Susan

 

Ladybranch, I like that you found the "Dancing Pig" video . . . but ugh x 10 it was creepy, verrrrry creepy.

I will say though that the pig costume was quite well done.

 

HI, folks. I'll mention my usual excuse of being too old to find my way home. But will ask those in better mental shape to take a good look at the tall kid. The overall look, the hat, the expression, physique, his especially, and the other faces, Etc., etc., etc. brings my thoughts to an early 20th century cartoonist/artist. The rest of the characters fit also. New Yorker?
Magazine, that is.

 

This going to drive me mad! (Madder?) I absolutely KNOW I have seen cartoons in the style of the second one. The nose on the fellow on the right is distinctive... I can't really see the young gentleman as living in the pages of the New Yorker -- but something similar perhaps? Or, same artist, different subject matter for the New Yorker.

Something British perhaps?

 

The second one vaguely reminds me of Cruikshank's regency era cartoons/lampoons.

 

silverthwaite, at least you have agreed on its existence. And I feel almost as strongly as you do. I KNOW I'VE SEEN MANY by that artist.
I scanned some old NY's and Cruikshanks on line and can't find anything close. I also have NY's book of psychiatrist cartoons that is always in the way, but has now hidden deeply away somewhere because I want to flip through it.

Yes, maybe English. Mr. and Mrs. clothes?
A funny paper cartoonist?
Just noticed the kid's shoes. Yes, maybe Mom & Dad upset at his uncontrollable growth.
Are we taking the "drunk against the light pole" as common, or might he be laughing so hard he's crying? No flask or bottle visible!

Anyway, I still have presents to wrap so will expect, hope, that the light goes ON in someone's head before I make it back here. Which might not be until Sat./Sunday.

 

LOL! Googling brought up a site that has 86 THOUSAND British cartoons.

Gobsmacked!!

 

OK I'll give you a week beyond my certain return. Be sure to save the pictures and footnotes so you can properly compare them. Thank you. Much appreciated.

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ibid ibid ibid

 

I keep coming back to this thread... not to be of any assistance, but it does look so familiar!

 

I just watched 4 DVDs full of Edison movies and thought this may be one of his in conjunction with Pathe' but don't believe so now.
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