"Blind-Man's Buff"
Item
- Title
- "Blind-Man's Buff"
- Description
-
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." - Creator
- Sir John Tenniel
- Date
- 22 September 1888
- Extent
- 1 page
- Format
- Document
- Is Part Of
- September 22 1888 version of "Punch"
- Language
- English
- Provenance
- British Library, sourced from Punch Ltd
- Publisher
- British Library
- Rights
- Copyright of Punch Ltd
- Rights Holder
- Punch Ltd
- Subject
- An illustration and poem satirizing the Metropolitan Police's struggling investigation of the Jack the Ripper murders and other crime in Whitechapel
- Temporal Coverage
- 1888
- Type
- Periodical
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 "Whitechapel, 1888" |
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