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Blampied's work appeared in all but four issues of The Bystander in 1924 and included 42 political cartoons, 5 centre-fold drawings and 11 single page drawings in colours. The scenes depicted showed that he had visited Annecy and Biarritz and had seen stages shows of exotic dancers in Paris. This was the heyday of the Moulin Rouge and the vedette, Josephine Baker.
The income from these drawings, his work for other publishers, and from his prints had enabled him to buy a large house with a studio in West Norwood in late 1923, so he had a well situated base from which to work, close to London's publishers.
The short Labour government led by Ramsay MacDonald, known as The Lossie Loon
, as he was from Lossiemouth in Scotland, provided good material for political cartoons in 1924
Occasionally some of Blampied's work for The Bystander comes up for sale, indicating that the magazine had sold the orginal drawings. The scene of the hunt in the issue of 15th October 1924 was sold at at auction in Jersey in May 2006 for £3,800. In terms of purchasing power this was equivalent to £95 in 1924. I doubt that Blampied was paid that much for the original.
Type: MO = monochrome drawing; CO = colour drawing; PC = political cartoon; the number indicates the number of drawings or pages.
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Issue: 2-Jan-1924, vol. 81, no. 1048, p 8. Price: 1/-. Type: MO1. Author: none. Title: Leap Year.
Issue: 9-Jan-1924, vol. 81, no. 1049, p 60. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: When Labour rules. A leisurely weekend at Chequers.
Issue: 9-Jan-1924, vol. 81, no. 1049, p 62. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: Dilly dally! Dilly dally! Come and be killed.
Issue: 9-Jan-1924, vol. 81, no. 1049, p 91. Price: 1/-. Type: MO1. Author: none. Title: When losses are gains.
Issue: 16-Jan-1924, vol. 81, no. 1050, p 116. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: Who said fusion? His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Issue: 16-Jan-1924, vol. 81, no. 1050, p 118. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: Between two stools.
Issue: 23-Jan-1924, vol. 81, no. 1051, p 176. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: The confidence trick.
Issue: 23-Jan-1924, vol. 81, no. 1051, p 202. Price: 1/-. Type: MO1. Author: none. Title: Rather like a dry point.
Issue: 30-Jan-1924, vol. 81, no. 1052, p 232. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: Ramsay's "tandem". Asquith, leader; "Nanny" Webb, wheeler!.
Issue: 6-Feb-1924, vol. 81, no. 1053, p 293. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: Agag up to date.
Issue: 6-Feb-1924, vol. 81, no. 1053, p 309. Price: 1/-. Type: CO1. Author: none. Title: Sun lights and shades on the Riviera. [Note: this drawing was used on the cover of my book on Blampied as an illustrator.]
Issue: 6-Feb-1924, vol. 81, no. 1053, p 320. Price: 1/-. Type: MO1. Author: R.A. Title: The Romance of the Riviera.
Issue: 13-Feb-1924, vol. 81, no. 1054, p 351. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: The Aperitif.
Issue: 20-Feb-1924, vol. 81, no. 1055, p 409. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: Political poker - the "Heathen Chinee".
Issue: 27-Feb-1924, vol. 81, no. 1056, p 462. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: A leap-year proposal. The Lady of Peace: Come fly with me!. Ramsay: with a Left Wing like mine? Impossible, my dear.
Issue: 5-Mar-1924, vol. 81, no. 1057, p 529. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: His Majesty the "Bolshie" (with apologies to well-known picture).
Issue: 12-Mar-1924, vol. 81, no. 1058, p 593. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: Slip 'em, Ramsay. The March Hare, or a Matter of "Course".
Issue: 19-Mar-1924, vol. 81, no. 1059, p 667. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: Abbey or Not Abbey? - that is the question.
Issue: 26-Mar-1924, vol. 81, no. 1060, p 729. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: Our army of the future: bow geste!.
Issue: 2-Apr-1924, vol. 82, no. 1061, p 19. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: An April shower.
Issue: 9-Apr-1924, vol. 82, no. 1062, p 89. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: Watch your step, Ramsay.
Issue: 16-Apr-1924, vol. 82, no. 1063, p 163. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: Easter, 1924 - the poltical "egg and spoon" race.
Issue: 23-Apr-1924, vol. 82, no. 1064, p 229. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: The toast - April 23, 1924. To the Eighth wonder of the world - Wembley.
Issue: 30-Apr-1924, vol. 82, no. 1065, p 289. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: Dr Ramsay Jekyll and Mr MacDonald Hyde at York, April 1924.
Issue: 7-May-1924, vol. 82, no. 1066, p 377. Price: 1/-. Type: CO1. Author: J.P.B. Title: The Young Pretenders.
Issue: 28-May-1924, vol. 82, no. 1069, p 629. Price: 1/-. Type: CO1. Author: none. Title: The Apache Order of the Ba-Ta-Clan. No image available.
Issue: 4-Jun-1924, vol. 82, no. 1070, p 703. Price: 1/-. Type: CO1. Author: none. Title: "Glances" at Biarritz.
Issue: 11-Jun-1924, vol. 82, no. 1071, p 777. Summer Number. Price: 1/-. Type: CO1. Author: none. Title: A Fairway of France (top). An impression of the 17th tee on the links of La Nivelle, looking towards St Jean-de-Luz.
Issue: 18-Jun-1924, vol. 82, no. 1072, p 873. Price: 1/-. Type: CO1. Author: none. Title: Over the hill and far away.
Issue: 25-Jun-1924, vol. 82, no. 1073, p 927. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: A fireside talk - subject "chestnuts".
Issue: 25-Jun-1924, vol. 82, no. 1073, p 948. Price: 1/-. Type: CO1. Author: none. Title: Les Porcelaines Grivoises. No image available.
Issue: 2-Jul-1924, vol. 83, no. 1074, p 13. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: Cutting the painter.
Issue: 2-Jul-1924, vol. 83, no. 1074, p 30. Price: 1/-. Type: CO1. Author: none. Title: A Paris Arabesque.
Issue: 9-Jul-1924, vol. 83, no. 1075, p 89. Price: 1/-. Type: CO1. Author: none. Title: At the sign of "The White Coffin".
Issue: 9-Jul-1924, vol. 83, no. 1075, p 71. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: Ramsay's "sure shield".
Issue: 16-Jul-1924, vol. 83, no. 1076, p 158-159. Price: 1/-. Type: CO2. Author: none. Title: The flower market of the Madeleine.
Issue: 16-Jul-1924, vol. 83, no. 1076, p 139. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: The "Fox" trots with "La Belle France".
Issue: 23-Jul-1924, vol. 83, no. 1077, p 203. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: The "Lossie Loon" - as "Lacoon".
Issue: 30-Jul-1924, vol. 83, no. 1078, p 258. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: Will Winston "cap the lot"?.
Issue: 30-Jul-1924, vol. 83, no. 1078, p 274. Price: 1/-. Type: MO2. Author: Petette. Title: Gossip from Deauville.
Issue: 30-Jul-1924, vol. 83, no. 1078, p 275. Price: 1/-. Type: CO1. Author: none. Title: Pursuit.
Issue: 6-Aug-1924, vol. 83, no. 1079, p 312. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: Hope!.
Issue: 13-Aug-1924, vol. 83, no. 1080, p 368. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: An in-glorious "twelfth".
Issue: 20-Aug-1924, vol. 83, no. 1081, p 428. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: Ramsay's Russian rabbit.
Issue: 27-Aug-1924, vol. 83, no. 1082, p 484. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: "The splits".
Issue: 27-Aug-1924, vol. 83, no. 1082, p 499. Price: 1/-. Type: CO1. Author: none. Title: A Dancing Duet.
Issue: 10-Sep-1924, vol. 83, no. 1084, p 612-613. Price: 1/-. Type: CO2. Author: none. Title: Polo at Biarritz.
Issue: 24-Sep-1924, vol. 84, no. 1086, p 728. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: Sour!.
Issue: 1-Oct-1924, vol. 84, no. 1087, p 20. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: The opening meeting of the "capital" hunt.
Issue: 1-Oct-1924, vol. 84, no. 1087, p 22. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: In Epping Forest: Winston "Wood" a-wooing go!.
Issue: 8-Oct-1924, vol. 84, no. 1088, p 113. Price: 1/-. Type: CO1. Author: none. Title: In Haute Savoie. Sur la terrace - lac d'Annency.
Issue: 15-Oct-1924, vol. 84, no. 1089, p 172. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: Ramsay's biscuit-tin Lizzie and (very) spare wheel.
Issue: 15-Oct-1924, vol. 84, no. 1089, p 190-191. Price: 1/-. Type: CO2. Author: none. Title: Following the Master: an impressionistic fantasy by Blam.
Issue: 22-Oct-1924, vol. 84, no. 1090, p 244. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: The "Campbell" comrades are coming!.
Issue: 29-Oct-1924, vol. 84, no. 1091, p 332-333. Price: 1/-. Type: PC2. Author: none. Title: What are the wild waves saying -- to-day?.
Issue: 29-Oct-1924, vol. 84, no. 1091, p 357. Price: 1/-. Type: MO1. Author: Straus, Rita. Title: Coiffure and my lady's toilet.
Issue: 5-Nov-1924, vol. 84, no. 1092, p 384. Winter Sports number. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: Winter "sports": the people who skated on thin ice.
Issue: 5-Nov-1924, vol. 84, no. 1092, p 431-432. Winter Sports number. Price: 1/-. Type: MO3. Author: O'Shea, Prudence. Title: Winter fashions in Switzerland.
Issue: 12-Nov-1924, vol. 84, no. 1093, p 461. Birthday Number (21st). Price: 1/-. Type: MO1. Author: Carrick, Hartley. Title: The Bystander makes his bow. [This illustration was used in the Souvenir Programme for the Bystander Ball on New Year's Eve]
Issue: 12-Nov-1924, vol. 84, no. 1093, p 462b. Birthday Number (21st). Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: Our coming of age celebrations.
Issue: 12-Nov-1924, vol. 84, no. 1093, p 486. Birthday Number (21st). Price: 1/-. Type: MO1. Author: none. Title: None. [A photograph of Edmund Blampied at work on an illustration]
Issue: 12-Nov-1924, vol. 84, no. 1093, p 512. Birthday Number (21st). Price: 1/-. Type: CO1. Author: none. Title: Vintage 'O3'
Issue: 19-Nov-1924, vol. 84, no. 1094, p 546A-546B. Riviera Number. Price: 1/-. Type: MO4. Author: Orczy, Baroness Title: The Lure of the Riviera.
Issue: 19-Nov-1924, vol. 84, no. 1094, p 550. Riviera Number. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: Ramsay's Riviera.
Issue: 19-Nov-1924, vol. 84, no. 1094, p 594A-598. Riviera Number. Price: 1/-. Type: MO3. Author: Deeping, Warwick. Title: Stockings. [Note: I have the original line drawing on the second page]
Issue: 19-Nov-1924, vol. 84, no. 1094, p 607-8. Riviera Number. Price: 1/-. Type: MO3. Author: Boulter, E.W. Title: What to wear on the Riviera
Issue: 26-Nov-1924, vol. 84, no. 1095, p 634B. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: Safe !!!.
Issue: 3-Dec-1924, vol. 84, no. 1096, p 710. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: Enter the Majority (top). Down Westminster way, December 9th (bottom).
Issue: 10-Dec-1924, vol. 84, no. 1097, p 798. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: Heart to heart talk. "Puir Laddie! Come under my plaidie!".
Issue: 10-Dec-1924, vol. 84, no. 1097, p 820-821. Price: 1/-. Type: CO2. Author: none. Title: The World Amused and Amusing at Biarritz. A sketch at aperitif time of the Grande Plage, Biarritz, facing the bay.
Issue: 17-Dec-1924, vol. 84, no. 1098, p 880. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: A Christmas Note. Farmer Baldwin sees "red"!.
Issue: 24-Dec-1924, vol. 85, no. 1099, p 938. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: The "Waits" until 19--??.
Issue: December 1924, vol. 84, no. 1096A, p 23-24. Xmas Number. Price: 2/-. Type: MO3. Author: Thompson, Mervyn. Title: Stars and the courses. No image available.
Issue: December 1924, vol. 84, no. 1096A, p 61. Xmas Number. Price: 2/-. Type: CO1. Author: none. Title: Reve de Noel. No image available.
Issue: December 1924, vol. 84, no. 1096A, p 20-21. Xmas Number. Price: 2/-. Type: MO2. Author: Carrick, Hartley. Title: Our toorchlight tattoo programme. No image available.
Issue: 31-Dec-1924, vol. 85, no. 1100, p 997. Price: 1/-. Type: PC1. Author: none. Title: Drive out the old, drive in the new (top). Cars that pass in the night - New Year's eve, 1924.