IRREPRESSIBLE N****R! 1881 John Tenniel - Joseph Swain PUNCH CARTOON PAGE

Original 10 1/2 inch x 8 1/4 inch Wood Engraved Cartoon page titled ”THE IRREPRESSIBLE N****R!” from Punch, February 19, 1881.

KING COFFEE. “YA-MASSA BULL! DIS COLOURED GENELUM MUS’ TRUBBLE YOU FOR HIM OLE FAMILY UMB’LELLA, SAR!”

The cartoon is by John Tenniel (1820 - 1914). An English illustrator, graphic humourist, and political cartoonist prominent in the second half of the 19th century. He was knighted for his artistic achievements in 1893. Tenniel is remembered especially as the principal political cartoonist for Punch magazine for over 50 years, and for his illustrations to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871).

Punch, or The London Charivari, was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells. Historically, it was most influential in the 1840s and 1850s, when it helped to coin the term "cartoon" in its modern sense as a humorous illustration.

The page is in very good condition. Reverse side blank.