--- title: Entre um ministro e um larapio (Between a Minister and a Pilferer), Os Pontos nos ii url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/entre-um-ministro-e-um-larapio-1889/ description: A full-page cartoon of a stout, top-hatted John Bull with a slip marked 'NOTE' at his mouth, gripping the raised fist of a bearded minister in a bicorne… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![Entre um ministro e um larapio (Between a Minister and a Pilferer), Os Pontos nos ii](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/entre-um-ministro-e-um-larapio-1889.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/entre-um-ministro-e-um-larapio-1889.jpg) # Entre um ministro e um larapio (Between a Minister and a Pilferer), Os Pontos nos ii A full-page cartoon of a stout, top-hatted John Bull with a slip marked 'NOTE' at his mouth, gripping the raised fist of a bearded minister in a bicorne whose sash is lettered 'Torre Espada' (the Order of the Tower and Sword), beside a sack lettered 'Estrangeiros'. The tell is the headline, which sets 'um ministro' against 'um larapio' (a pilferer), a loaded label that the drawing leaves the reader to fasten on one or both men. - **Date:** December 19, 1889 - **Period:** [Pre-1914](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=pre-1914) - **Made by:** Os Pontos nos ii (Lisbon satirical weekly); cartoonist Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro; lithographed by the Companhia Nacional Editora - **Region:** [Western and Central Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=western-central-europe) - **Country:** [Kingdom of Portugal](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=kingdom-of-portugal) - **Medium:** [Cartoon](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=cartoon) - **Issuer type:** [Media](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=media) - **Regime:** [Luciano de Castro Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=luciano-de-castro-government) - **Leader:** [Jose Luciano de Castro](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=jose-luciano-de-castro) - **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public) - **Purpose:** [Demonize](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=demonize) - **Themes:** [Empire and colonialism](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=empire-colonialism), [Media and information](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=media-information) - **Event:** [British Ultimatum of 1890](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=british-ultimatum-of-1890) - **Techniques:** [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) - **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are - **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (Hemeroteca Digital, Lisbon)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PINHEIRO,_Rafael_Bordalo_Revista_Pontos_nos_ii_1889_N229_de_19_de_Dezembro_Caricatura_entre_um_ministro_e_um_larapio_John_Bull_(personagem)_e_Ministro_Barros_Gomes.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026 - **Rights:** Public domain (published 1889, before 1931; artist died 1905; PD-old-70-expired per Wikimedia Commons) Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, Os Pontos nos ii, Lisbon, 19 December 1889, via Hemeroteca Digital de Lisboa and Wikimedia Commons ## Text on the object Original (Portuguese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` 19 de Dezembro de 1889 [Os Pontos nos ii] 313 Entre um ministro e um larapio Nunca as mãos lhe doam [on the sash:] TORRE ESPADA / VALOR LEALDADE E MERITO [on the slip at John Bull's mouth:] NOTE [on the sack:] ESTRANGEIROS [lettering on John Bull's cuff and sleeve: illegible] [signature:] RAPHAEL BORDALLO PINHEIRO Isso, arruma-lhe! A tua nota diplomatica, reconcilia-me com as mãos que tanto tempo levaram a despachar o premio do dr. Ferreira. Anno V — Lithographia da Companhia Nacional Editora — 229 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` 19 December 1889 [Os Pontos nos ii] 313 Between a minister and a pilferer May their hands never ache [on the sash:] TOWER SWORD / VALOUR LOYALTY AND MERIT [on the slip at John Bull's mouth:] NOTE [on the sack:] FOREIGNERS [lettering on John Bull's cuff and sleeve: illegible] [signature:] RAPHAEL BORDALLO PINHEIRO That's it, put him away! Your diplomatic note reconciles me with the hands that took so long to dispatch Dr. Ferreira's prize. Year V — Lithographed by the Companhia Nacional Editora — 229 ``` [← Illustration of the Issuing of the State Constitution in the State Chamber of the New Imperial Palace (憲法發布式之圖)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/constitution-promulgation-adachi-ginko-1889/) [John Bull chamber pot (Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, Caldas da Rainha) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/john-bull-potty-bordalo-1890/) ## Using the same techniques - [Passional Christi und Antichristi: the emperor kisses the pope's foot (leaf 'Antichristus')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passional-christi-antichristi-emperor-kisses-pope-1521/) (1521 · Name-calling, Card stacking) - [Ondersoeckt de Geesten, ofse van den Duyvel syn, of niet (the De Witt brothers as devils)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ondersoeckt-de-geesten-de-witt-devils-1672/) (1672 · Scapegoating, Name-calling) - [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (1746 · Name-calling, Transfer) - [The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/revere-bloody-massacre-king-street-1770/) (Mar 1770 · Name-calling, Card stacking) - [Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus (March of the Modern Don Quixote in Defence of the Mill of Abuses)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dom-quichotte-moulin-des-abus-1791/) (1791 · Name-calling, Transfer) - [Sans-Culottes, feeding Europe with the Bread of Liberty (James Gillray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sans-culottes-bread-of-liberty-gillray-1793/) (Jan 12, 1793 · Fear appeal, Name-calling) - [Exit Liberté a la Francois! or Buonaparte closing the Farce of Egalité, at St. Cloud (James Gillray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/exit-liberte-buonaparte-gillray-1799/) (Nov 21, 1799 · Name-calling) - [Van Moscouw tot Elba moest ik wyken (From Moscow to Elba I had to give way), Napoleon caricature by Wijnand Esser](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/van-moscouw-tot-elba-napoleon-esser-1814/) (1814 · Name-calling)