This Puck cartoon titled "RECKLESS DEFIANCE - France: You may be able to whip the Boers, but I dare you to tackle the Russian Bear!" published 1900.
"RECKLESS DEFIANCE - British and French Imperial Rivalry. Having fought two wars together as closest of allies, it is easy to forget that only a few years before Britain and France were bitter rivals for world supremacy and vied with each other to carve up Africa into their colonial empires. More than once, two colonial powers nearly went to war over now long forgotten territorial disputes in Africa. This cartoon portrays France as a little man defiantly challenging the stalwart British, while hiding behind a bumbling Russian Bear. At the time the Russian Empire was another great rival of Britain. " BoerWarArchives.com
Size 64cm x 49cm (framed). The cartoon is sandwiched between 2 sheets of glass so that the original articles on the back side of the cartoon can be read.
" Civilization & Barbarism - Cartoon Commentary & The White Man's Burden (1898 -1902" by Ellen Sebring:
"Rudyard Kipling's famous poem "The White Man's Burden"was published in 1899, during a high tide of British and American rhetoric about bringing the blessings of 'civilization and progress' to barbaric non-westerners, non-Christian, non-white peoples. In Kipling's often-quoted phrase, this noble mission required willingness to engage in "savage wars of peace".
Three savage turn-of-the-century conflicts defined the milieu in which such rhetoric flourished: the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 in South Africa; the U.S. conquest and occupation of the Philippines initiated in 1899; and the anti-foreign Boxer Uprising in China that provoked intervention by eight foreign nations in 1900.
The imperialist rhetoric of 'civilization' versus 'barbarism' that took root during these years was reinforced in both the United States and England by a small flood of political cartoons - commonly executed in full colour and with meticulous attention to detail. Most viewers will probably agree that there is nothing really comparable in the contemporary world of political cartooning to the drafting skill and flamboyance of these single-panel graphics, which appear in such popular periodicals as Puck and Judge."
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The 2 pages printed at the reverse of the cartoon.
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