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L. (Leonard) Raven-Hill
1867–1942
Best known for his sharp political cartoons and illustrations, he helped shape the visual wit of British magazines in the late Victorian and early 20th-century press. His long association with Punch made him one of the era’s familiar satirical voices in ink.
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Our Battalion Being Some Slight Impressions of His Majesty's Auxiliary Forces, in Camp and Elsewhere
by L. (Leonard) Raven-Hill
About the author
Born in Bath in 1867, Leonard Raven-Hill was an English artist, illustrator, and cartoonist who studied at the Lambeth School of Art and later in Paris. He first exhibited as a painter, but he became especially known for pen-and-ink work and for the lively, observant style that suited magazines and satire.
Raven-Hill was involved in humorous illustrated journalism early on, helping found periodicals including The Butterfly, and he began contributing to Punch in the 1890s before later joining its staff. Over the years he became widely recognized for political and social cartoons, with work that bridged the Victorian period and the interwar years.
He died in 1942. Today he is remembered mainly for his long run as a Punch cartoonist and for the way his drawings captured both the manners and the politics of his time.