The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . nnia covers her eyes. The Times challenge to Charles Stewart Parnell was, ofcourse, recorded in the caricature of Punch. The Thun-derer, it will be remembered, published letters, which itbelieved to be genuine, involving Parnell in the murders ofLord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke in Phoenix Park,Dublin, in 1882. When these letters were proved to havebeen forged by Pigot, Punch published a cartoon showing CENTURY IN CARICATURE 293 the Times doing penance. Both of these cartoons were byTenniel. The Challenge appeared in the issue of April
The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . nnia covers her eyes. The Times challenge to Charles Stewart Parnell was, ofcourse, recorded in the caricature of Punch. The Thun-derer, it will be remembered, published letters, which itbelieved to be genuine, involving Parnell in the murders ofLord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke in Phoenix Park,Dublin, in 1882. When these letters were proved to havebeen forged by Pigot, Punch published a cartoon showing CENTURY IN CARICATURE 293 the Times doing penance. Both of these cartoons were byTenniel. The Challenge appeared in the issue of April30, 1887, and Penance almost two years later, March9, 1889. A cartoon which marked Tenniels genius at its height, acartoon worthy of being ranked with that which depictedthe British Lions vengeance on the Bengal Tiger after theatrocities of the Sepoy rebellion, was his famous Droppingthe Pilot, which was published on March 29, 1890, afterWilliam II. of Germany had decided to dispense with theservices of the Iron Chancellor. Over the side of the ship. lenfant terrible. The Baccarat Scandal at Tranby Croft in 1891. From Puck. 294 CENTURY IN CARICATURE of state the young Emperor is leaning complacently lookingdown on the grim old pilot, who has descended the ladder andis about to step into the boat that is to bear him ashore. Theoriginal sketch of this cartoon was finished by Tenniel as a
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