Illustrator: Linley Sambourne, from British Punch humor/satire magazine, February 2, 1878, pulled from the magazine, not a modern reproduction. Size 8 x 10 1/2 inches (image shown is slightly cropped). Condition: excellent -- minor age toning, clean, page has been humidified and flattened for best appearance and for framing; backside has unrelated text with some show-through (ghosting) possible on the facing side, as published -- please look closely.

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+ Punch cartoon of 1878 commemorating the journalist and Africa explorer Henry Morton Stanley and Cleopatra's Needle in London.

+ H. M. Stanley's Through the Dark Continent was published in 1878 (in which he coined the term "Dark Continent" for Africa),

+ Cleopatra's Needle in London is one of three similarly named Egyptian obelisks and is located in the City of Westminster, on the Victoria Embankment near the Golden Jubilee Bridges. It is close to the Embankment underground station. It was presented to the United Kingdom in 1819 by the ruler of Egypt and Sudan Muhammad Ali, in commemoration of the victories of Lord Nelson at the Battle of the Nile and Sir Ralph Abercromby at the Battle of Alexandria in 1801. Although the British government welcomed the gesture, it declined to fund the expense of transporting it to London. The obelisk is inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphs.

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