The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . sniffingsuspiciously at the crack of a door, behind which is being heldthe conference which followed the fall of Sebastopol. Butby far the most famous instance of Tenniels work is hisseries of Cawnpore cartoons, the series bearing upon theIndian mutiny of 1857; and one of the finest, if not the veryfinest, of them all is that entitled The British Lions Venge-ance on the Bengal Tiger. It represents in the life work ofTennielwhat General Fevrier Turned Traitor stands forin the life work of John Leech. The subject was suggestedto Tenniel by Sh
The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . sniffingsuspiciously at the crack of a door, behind which is being heldthe conference which followed the fall of Sebastopol. Butby far the most famous instance of Tenniels work is hisseries of Cawnpore cartoons, the series bearing upon theIndian mutiny of 1857; and one of the finest, if not the veryfinest, of them all is that entitled The British Lions Venge-ance on the Bengal Tiger. It represents in the life work ofTennielwhat General Fevrier Turned Traitor stands forin the life work of John Leech. The subject was suggestedto Tenniel by Shirley Brooks. It summed up all the horrorand thirst for revenge which animated England when thenews came of the treacherous atrocities of the Sepoy Cawnpore massacre of women and children ordered bythe infamous Nana Sahib had taken place in June, and whenthis cartoon appeared in Punch, August 22, 1857, Englandhad just sent thirty thousand troops to India. In the picturethe British lion is springing at the throat of the Bengal tiger, </. THE BRITISH LIONS VENGEANCE ON THE BENGAL TIGEE. HO CENTURY IN CARICATURE which is standing over the prostrate bodies of a woman anda child. The tiger, fearful of being robbed of its prey, issnarling at the avenging lion. Another of the famous Cawn-pore cartoons of Tenniel is descriptive of British vengeanceon the Sepoy mutineers. The English troops were simplywild for revenge when the stories came to them of theatrocities which had been perpetrated on English women andchildren, and their vengeance knew no bounds. The Sepoyswere blown from the mouths of the English cannon. It wasthe custom of the English soldiers to pile up a heap ofSepoys, dead or wounded, pour oil over them, and then setfire to the pile. The Tenniel cartoon, entitled Justice,published September 12, 1857, shows the figure of Justicewith sword and shield cutting down the mutineers, while be-hind her are the British troops working destruction with theirbayonets. No
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