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Welcome to the website of Punch magazine and Punch Cartoon Library, the world’s best and largest repository of cartoon art available for licensing.

Punch, the magazine of humour and satire, ran from 1841 until its closure in 2002. A very British institution with an international reputation for its witty and irreverent take on the world, it published the work of some of the greatest comic writers (Thackeray, P G Wodehouse and P J O’Rourke among others) and gave us the cartoon as we know it today. Its political cartoons swayed governments while its social cartoons captured life in the 19th and 20th centuries. The world’s finest cartoonists appeared in Punch: such great names as Tenniel, E H Shepard, Fougasse, and Pont.

The Punch Cartoon Library

Since its launch in July 1841 Punch has published more than 500,000 cartoons by some of the world’s finest cartoonists. From the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the American Civil War to the invention of television and radio, the fall of the Berlin Wall to the rise of New Labour, there are cartoons on every aspect of life in the 19th and 20th centuries - and some of the just plain funniest cartoons ever published.

The Punch Cartoon Library gives you access to this unique collection - the best and largest repository of cartoon art available for licensing for a wide variety of business, publishing or academic uses. Our friendly and experienced researchers can help you find just the cartoon you’re looking for. You can find us on punch.library@harrods.com or give us a call +44 (0)207 225 6710 with your requirements.

Why not visit our galleries for a selection of some of our favourite images.

The Punch Cartoon Library