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The Bystander, 1923

Blampied's work appeared in 22 issues of The Bystander in 1923. Several of the drawings featured places in French Riviera, where the magazine was usually edited sometimes twice a year, from Monaco or Monte Carlo. This was the part of the world that the magazine's readers were mostly likely to visit, so they could be featured in the local gossip. Blampied spoke fluent French, so he was very much at home in the south of France even if the people he was drawing were very different from his origins in rural Jersey.

The magazine started printing a centre-fold in colours and this allowed Blampied a full palette of colours, as you can see in the drawing published in the issue of 7th February, a scene in Nice.

In December Blampied illustrated a spoof of Kipling's poem If and drew in line clearly recognisable caricatures of the major politicians of the day including Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald and David Lloyd George. This may have led to the first of Blampied's 132 political cartoons in the magazine between 12th December 1923 and 3rd November 1926.

Type: MO = monochrome drawing; CO = colour drawing; PC = political cartoon; the number indicates the number of drawings or pages.

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— 1923 —

Issue: 3-Jan-1923, vol. 77, no. 996, p 22. Price: 1/-. Type: CO1. Author: none. Title: Leading him on.

Issue: 3-Jan-1923, vol. 77, no. 996, p 35-36. Price: 1/-. Type: MO1. Author: Leigh, Dell. Title: Other men's women. I The woman of the restaurant.

Issue: 10-Jan-1923, vol. 77, no. 997, p 99-100. Price: 1/-. Type: MO1. Author: Leigh, Dell. Title: Other men's women. II The woman of the theatre.

Issue: 17-Jan-1923, vol. 77, no. 998, p 157-158. Price: 1/-. Type: MO1. Author: Leigh, Dell. Title: Other men's women. III The open-air woman.

Issue: 31-Jan-1923, vol. 77, no. 1000, p 283. One thousandth issue. Price: 1/-. Type: CO1. Author: none. Title: Things have changed - since our first number. Through the smoke of her first cigarette, dainty Miss Nineteen-Twenty-Three sees her prototype in "The Bystander's" first issue, and smiles a little tolerantly at "The Latest Fashion for 1903".

Issue: 7-Feb-1923, vol. 77, no. 1001, p 300. Price: 1/-. Type: MO1. Author: none. Title: The Fifth Chukker. The commencement of the polo season on the Riviera at the Mandelieu ground.

Issue: 7-Feb-1923, vol. 77, no. 1001, p 311. Price: 1/-. Type: MO2. Author: Petette. Title: Le Danseur de Madame.

Issue: 7-Feb-1923, vol. 77, no. 1001, p 320-321. Riviera number. Price: 1/-. Type: CO2. Author: none. Title: Battle of flowers - Nice.

Issue: 21-Feb-1923, vol. 77, no. 1003, p 435. Price: 1/-. Type: MO1. Author: none. Title: Masks and mummers. Carnival time at Cannes.

Issue: 14-Mar-1923, vol. 77, no. 1006, p 647. Price: 1/-. Type: MO1. Author: none. Title: Spring flutters.

Issue: 28-Mar-1923, vol. 77, no. 1008, p 803. Price: 1/-. Type: MO1. Author: none. Title: Joie de vivre. That "spring" feeling.

Issue: 4-Apr-1923, vol. 77, no. 1009, p 849. Price: 1/-. Type: MO1. Author: none. Title: A course of languages.

Issue: 18-Apr-1923, vol. 78, no. 1011, p 36. Price: 1/-. Type: CO1. Author: none. Title: Spring-cleaning in the library.

Issue: 2-May-1923, vol. 78, no. 1013, p 177-178. Royal Wedding Issue. Price: 2/-. Type: MO4. Author: Criag, Elizabeth. Title: The Royal Bride and her Trousseau.

Issue: 2-May-1923, vol. 78, no. 1013, p 189. Royal Wedding Issue. Price: 2/-. Type: CO1. Author: none. Title: Pandora's wedding box.

Issue: 23-May-1923, vol. 78, no. 1016, p 428. Price: 1/-. Type: MO1. Author: Kyrle, Stephen. Title: A Year Ago. No image available.

Issue: 13-Jun-1923, vol. 79, no. 1019, p 47. Summer number. Price: 1/-. Type: CO1. Author: none. Title: Three of a kind. No image available.

Issue: 18-Jul-1923, vol. 79, no. 1024, p 380. Price: 1/-. Type: CO1. Author: none. Title: Divers Ways! A spring-boredom that does not bore. No image available.

Issue: 1-Aug-1923, vol. 79, no. 1026, p 525-526. Price: 1/-. Type: MO1. Author: Eylon, John. Title: The girl of Chateau Gris.

Issue: 14-Nov-1923, vol. 80, no. 1041, p 492. Price: 1/-. Type: CO1. Author: none. Title: A jump turn.

Issue: 21-Nov-1923, vol. 80, no. 1042, p 547-548. Riviera number. Price: 1/-. Type: MO2. Author: Treves, Sir Frederick. Title: Monte Carlo.

Issue: 21-Nov-1923, vol. 80, no. 1042, p 559. Riviera number. Price: 1/-. Type: CO1. Author: none. Title: A Riviere rencontre.

Issue: 21-Nov-1923, vol. 80, no. 1042, p 580. Riviera number. Price: 1/-. Type: MO2. Author: R.A. Title: Brin de Reve. A honeymoon at Grasse and what befel.

Issue: 21-Nov-1923, vol. 80, no. 1042, p 597-598. Riviera number. Price: 1/-. Type: MO3. Author: E.W.B. Title: Riviera Fashion Forecasts.

Issue: 5-Dec-1923, vol. 80, no. 1044, p 732. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: Carrick, Hartley. Title: If!.

Issue: 5-Dec-1923, vol. 80, no. 1044, p 737. Price: 1/-. Type: CO1. Author: none. Title: Doing the Constituencies. Why he said "yes" like a lamb.

Issue: 12-Dec-1923, vol. 80, no. 1045, p 807. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: A good "try".

Issue: 19-Dec-1923, vol. 80, no. 1046, p 879. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: Christmas, 1924 - The waits!.

Issue: Dec-1923, vol. 80, no. 1044A, p 37-40. Christmas Annual. Price: 2/-. Type: MO3. Author: Deeping, Warwick. Title: Paul Saratof redicovers himself.

Issue: Dec-1923, vol. 80, no. 1044A, p 75. Christmas Annual. Price: 2/-. Type: CO1. Author: none. Title: A Christmas "draw".

Issue: 26-Dec-1923, vol. 80, no. 1047, p 930. Price: 1/-. Type: MO1. Author: none. Title: That "Kissmas" feeling.

Issue: 26-Dec-1923, vol. 80, no. 1047, p 930b. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: "Pulling together".