Truncheon Gallery

The Bonzo Chase board game

Box lid design for the Bonzo Chase board game, a thrilling version of snakes and ladders where Bonzo, the doggy creation of George Studdy, who was made famous in the pages of the Sketch magazine during the 1920s is pursued around the board by a rotund policeman. Credit should read: Estate of George Studdy/Gresham Marketing Ltd./Lucinda Gosling/Mary Evan"

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Caricature of Richard Claude Belt, English sculptor

Caricature of Richard Claude Belt (1851-1920), English sculptor -- Law Court Pantomime. Mr Policeman Lewis to Mr Motley Belt. A libel case between Belt and a former employer, Charles Lawes, ran for six months in 1882, over the disputed credit for a sculpture. Belt won the case and was awarded damages of 5000, but Lawes launched an appeal and the damages were reduced to 500. However, the Court of Appeal overturned this in 1884, and reinstated the amount to 5000. Lawes then filed for bankruptcy to avoid payment. The policeman here is Sir George Henry Lewis (1833-1911), lawyer for Charles Lawes, so annoyed at losing the case that he pursued and ruined Belt.
1883

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David Garrick as John Brute in the Provok'd Wife by Vanbrugh, Drury Lane, c

450076 David Garrick as John Brute in the Provok'd Wife by Vanbrugh, Drury Lane, c.1763 (oil on canvas) by Zoffany, Johann (1733-1810); 75x62 cm; The Holburne Museum, Bath, UK; (add.info.: David Garrick (1717-79) was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of theatrical practice throughout the 18th century and was a pupil and friend of Dr Samuel Johnson.
In John Vanbrugh's comedy, Sir John Brute steals a set of his wife's clothes from a tailor after a drunken evening with his friends. He has put them on, and is now resisting arrest.
Part of The Somerset Maugham Collection, transferred from the National Theatre.); A© Holburne Museum ; English, out of copyright

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