"Blind-Man's Buff"
Item
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Title
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"Blind-Man's Buff"
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Description
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A political cartoon in the British satirical magazine "Punch" that depicts a blindfolded policeman cluelessly surrounded by criminals in London's East End. A caption reads "Blind Mans' Buff. (As played by the Police.) 'Turn round three times, and catch whom you may!'" The cartoon also includes a poem reading "Lurking crime
Haunts from of old these dens of darksome slime.
There, where well-armed authority fears to tread,
Murder and outrage rear audacious head,
Unscanned, untracked."
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Creator
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Sir John Tenniel
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Date
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22 September 1888
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Extent
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1 page
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Format
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Document
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Is Part Of
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September 22 1888 version of "Punch"
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Language
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English
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Provenance
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British Library, sourced from Punch Ltd
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Publisher
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British Library
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Rights
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Copyright of Punch Ltd
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Rights Holder
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Punch Ltd
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Subject
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An illustration and poem satirizing the Metropolitan Police's struggling investigation of the Jack the Ripper murders and other crime in Whitechapel
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Temporal Coverage
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1888
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Type
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Periodical
"Latest Details of the Whitechapel Murders"
"Sir Charles Warren's Resignation"
"The London Murder Scare"
"The Nemesis of Neglect"
"Whitechapel, 1888"