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Description The Rhodes Colossus: Caricature of Cecil John Rhodes, after he announced plans for a telegraph line and railroad from Cape Town to Cairo.
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Source Punch and Exploring History 1400-1900: An anthology of primary sources, p. 401 by Rachel C. Gibbons
Author
Edward Linley Sambourne (1844–1910)  wikidata:Q504621
 
Edward Linley Sambourne
Alternative names
E. Linley Sambourne; Linley Sambourne
Description British cartoonist, illustrator, caricaturist, painter and printmaker
Date of birth/death 4 January 1844 Edit this at Wikidata 3 August 1910 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London Edit this at Wikidata London Edit this at Wikidata
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The caricature depicts a man in uniform, standing arrogantly and larger than life over Africa: his left leg rests in South Africa, his right in Egypt. In his hands, which he stretches toward the sky, he holds the thin cable of a telegraph.

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10 December 1892Gregorian

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