Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Punch Rhodes Colossus

Punch Rhodes Colossus

Caricature of Cecil John Rhodes, after he announced plans for a telegraph line from Cape Town to Cairo.

Reason

This is one of the enduring images of the British Empire and the rush to "colonize" Africa. An iconic symbol of imperialism when first published in 1892, the image remains one of the most recoginzed pictures of the 20th century.

Articles this image appears in

British Empire, Imperialism, Cecil John Rhodes, Scramble for Africa, British South Africa, Company, Cape to Cairo Road, Anglo-African, Decolonization of Africa, Cape-Cairo railway

Creator

Edward Linley Sambourne

• Support as nominator — TomStar81 (Talk) 19:02, 21 June 2007 (UTC)