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Year. 1892. Subject. Cecil Rhodes. The Colossus of Rhodes, imagined in a 16th-century engraving by Martin Heemskerck, part of his series of the Seven Wonders of the World. The Rhodes Colossus is an editorial cartoon illustrated by English cartoonist Edward Linley Sambourne and published by Punch magazine in 1892.
Railroads. Measurement: 24 x 18 (image) (centimeters, height x width) Notes: This satirical image of an immense Cecil Rhodes, arms outstretched, astride the entire continent of Africa is "one of the most familiar of all 19th Century political cartoons . . . the 'archetypal image of British imperial power.'" Scully 2012, 120.
Cecil John Rhodes ( / ˈsɛsəl ˈroʊdz / SES-əl ROHDZ; 5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) [2] was an English mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. He and his British South Africa Company founded the southern African territory of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia ...
Cecil John Rhodes ( Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, 5 de julho de 1853 — Muizenberg, 26 de março de 1902) foi um colonizador e homem de negócios britânico.
2 de ago. de 2016 · Inspiration, insights, & ways to get involved. This caricature, “Rhodes Colossus,” depicts British imperialist Cecil Rhodes straddling the continent of Africa after announcing plans for a telegraph line from Cape Town to Cairo.
2 de ago. de 2016 · This caricature, “Rhodes Colossus,” depicts British imperialist Cecil Rhodes straddling the continent of Africa after announcing plans for a telegraph line from Cape Town to Cairo.
colonial Southern Africa, 1884–1905. European penetration into Southern Africa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The crucial area was Bechuanaland, through which ran the route used by the missionaries. Rhodes intended to use it to open up the northern territories of Mashonaland and Matabeleland (both now in Zimbabwe [Rhodesia]).
