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title: 'British Benevolence: Puck cover by Joseph Keppler, 19 July 1882'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/puck-british-benevolence-1882/
description: 'Puck cover: a giant lion in boxing gloves marked "ARMY" and "NAVY" looms over small figures labelled "EGYPTIAN".'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Contains racial caricatures of African and Middle Eastern peoples in a nineteenth-century US magazine cartoon, shown as published. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

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# British Benevolence: Puck cover by Joseph Keppler, 19 July 1882

Puck cover: a giant lion in boxing gloves marked "ARMY" and "NAVY" looms over small figures labelled "EGYPTIAN", "AFGHAN" and "ASHANTEE" (LOC lists two more, Boer and Zulu), while a figure labelled "FENIAN" pulls on gloves at right; the caption quotes Earl Granville. The tell: a state's foreign policy is reduced to one animal in boxing gloves, and each people to a label, set against an ironic quotation (name-calling).

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)

## Text on the object

Original (english) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Puck
VOL. XI.-No. 280. JULY 19, 1882. Price, 10 Cents.
"What fools these Mortals be!" MIDSUMMER-NIGHTS DREAM.
PUBLISHED BY KEPPLER & SCHWARZMANN. NEW YORK. OFFICE No. 21-23 WARREN ST. TRADE MARK REGISTERED 1878. "ENTERED AT THE POST OFFICE AT NEW YORK, AND ADMITTED FOR TRANSMISSION THROUGH THE MAILS AT SECOND CLASS RATES."
[labels:] ARMY (glove); NAVY (glove); EGYPTIAN; AFGHAN; ASHANTEE (shield); [illegible] (figure at top left); [illegible, LOC lists Boer and Zulu among the victims]; FENIAN
[signature:] J. Keppler
BRITISH BENEVOLENCE.
"It is painful to be obliged to use force against the weak."—Earl Granville in House of Lords.
```

Read from the 1024 px LOC image.

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