Daily Graphic (New York) (30:3015), front cover. Implies problems will get worse if tax abolished. Includes pipe bowl as a skull; gravestone with "Smokers Take Warning"; man confined with straitjacket in asylum. Artist is Steele (first initial unclear, middle initial is probably O). Related editorial on page 248 in Pictures of the Day." Column 2 of page 248 contains one paragraph untitled article about a Philadelphia newspaper helping to catch 3 grave robbers. Hansen database #3327.
Daily Graphic (New York) (30:3015), front cover. Implies problems will get worse if tax abolished. Includes pipe bowl as a skull; gravestone with "Smokers Take Warning"; man confined with straitjacket in asylum. Artist is Steele (first initial unclear, middle initial is probably O). Related editorial on page 248 in Pictures of the Day." Column 2 of page 248 contains one paragraph untitled article about a Philadelphia newspaper helping to catch 3 grave robbers. Hansen database #3327.
A grotesque caricature attacking the much-debated 1820 settlement scheme which encouraged English people to settle in South Africa, where they were promised fertile land and a pleasant climate. In the print, a working-class English family are shown being attacked by a snake, lion and crocodile while highly stereotyped and racist depictions of the local population are seen cannibalizing the family and burning down their home
Alternative Title:
Blessings of emigration to the Cape of Good Hope and Blessings of emigration to the Cape of Forlorn Hope
Description:
Title etched below image. The word "Forlorn" in title is scored through and the word "Good" has been inserted above the line with a caret, forming the correct place name "Cape of Good Hope"., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate numbered twice in upper margin; "No. 2" is centered, and "366" is in the upper right corner., For a companion print entitled "A strong proof of the flourishing state of the country, exemplefied in the proposed emigration to the Cape of Good Hope! ...", see no. 13267 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 9., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 7, 1819, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
Subject (Geographic):
South Africa
Subject (Topic):
Emigration and immigration, Emigration & immigration, Indigenous peoples, Ethnic stereotypes, Cannibalism, Snakes, Lions, Crocodiles, and Fires
Judge (29:733), page 284-285, center. By Gillam, a drowned Tammany tiger from a wrecked ship is laying over a barrel labelled "The Rum Question." A paper on the ground says "Drowned in the tidal wave of 1894." Dana from the New York Sun tries to give the tiger a spoon of "N.Y. Sun Cholera Mixture" while politicians and publishers give advice. Hansen database #42.
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Daily Graphic (New York) (34:3493), front cover. Full-page editorial cartoon by Miranda, showing well-off families leaving on vacation, luggage labeled Saratoga, Newport, and Europe, with a young girl giving money to a nun collecting for the poor. An example of Miranda's style and of sympathetic presentation of religious charity. This era has plenty of anti-Catholic cartoons, often mocking donations to the church as going for corruption or terrorism. Since the Daily Graphic cover of March 27, 1884, by F. J. Willson (here #4501) is critical of anti-Catholic bias, it suggests that Daily Graphic might have been particularly sensitive on this issue and sympathetic to Roman Catholicism. Hansen database #4498