The Rhodes Colossus
British 1892 editorial cartoon
The Rhodes Colossus
The Rhodes Colossus is an editorial cartoon illustrated by the English cartoonist Edward Linley Sambourne and published by Punch magazine in 1892. It depicts the English business magnate Cecil Rhodes as a giant straddling over Africa and holding a telegraph line grounded at the northern and southern ends of the continent, a reference to his desire to build a "Cape to Cairo" rail and telegraph line connecting most of the British colonies in Africa. It is a visual pun on the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Read on Wikipedia · Image Edward Linley Sambourne, Public domain
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