Britannia's Victorian War artist: Mark Bryant looks at the work of the Punch artist whose drawings symbolized British anger over the Indian Mutiny and established his own reputation.(BEHIND THE LINES)(Sir John Tenniel)

From: History Today | Date: May 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

THE INDIAN MUTINY of 1857-58 was a bloody wake-up call for the British Empire. Coming so soon after the Crimean War against Russia, the Sepoy Rebellion, as it was also known, exposed the cracks that eventually led to the loss of the 'Jewel in the Crown' and the break-up of the Empire itself a century later. It also made the reputation of one of Britain's most distinguished political cartoonists. Despite being blind in one eye he became the leading artist of Punch for nearly half a century, was the first ever cartoonist to be knighted for his work and later achieved wider fame as ...

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