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This Puck cartoon titled "THE BOER LILLIPUTIANS AND THE BRITISH GULLIVER" published 1900.
"This clever cartoon borrows from the famous scene from Gulliver's Travels in which the tiny Lilliputians tie down the gigantic Gulliver. Here, Britain is personified by the character of John Bull, one of it's national symbols. He is lying on the ground while an army of tiny Boers climb on top of him and bind him with ropes labeled with the names of battles such as Sion Kop and Mafikeng. Meanwhile Britain's sword, labeled British Prestige, lies broken on the ground." 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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