Wooing the African Venus. (Some way after Homer's Hymn to Aphrodite)

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Bildunterschrift: (A Charter has just been granted to the Imperial British East Africa Company. This Company will now administer and develop a territory with an estimated area of about 50,000 square miles, including some of the most fertile and salubrious regions of East Africa.)

Object Details

• Alternative title: Punch (Serientitel)
• Location: Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
• Collection: UB Britische Karikaturen 1
• Inventory number: H 634-3 Folio

References and Relationships

• Related object and literature: Verweis: http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/punch1888a/0140

Classification and Topics

• Subject (what): Karikatur ; Satirische Zeitschrift ; Ostafrika ; Personifikation ; Schwarze ; Britisch-Ostafrika ; Kolonialismus ; John Bull, Fiktive Gestalt ; Deutscher Soldat ; Italienischer Soldat ; Französischer Soldat ; Brautwerbung ; Schlangen ; Venus, Göttin

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Herstellung
• (who): Sambourne, Linley
• (where): London
• (when): um 1888

Further information

• Last update: 05.03.2025, 4:24 PM CET