Plain English! by Sir John Tenniel (1890)

Pen-and-ink cartoon of a stout sailor frowning at a small soldier with a sword beside railway tracks and a tent.

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A pen-and-ink political cartoon titled Plain English! shows a stout sailor in a sailor suit with a clenched expression, facing a small uniformed figure with a sword who gestures toward a tent beside tracks and palm-like trees. The print, signed by Sir John Tenniel and dated 1890, appears on page 84 of a January 1890 publication, with the caption attributing the speech to John Bull.

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1890

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