IMAGE
Hiscocks, Ercildoune Frederick, fl 1899-1940s :Wireless "All Red Route" Ward - Blondin up to date. [1911].
- Date
- 1911
- Reference
- E-212-q-002
- Description
Shows Sir Joseph Ward (postmaster general) as a tightope walker above a map of the world, balancing "Universal penny post" with the "Cablegram. One penny per word all over the world". The world map shows ships travelling the world's oceans including Captain Scott and the "Terra Nova". There is also a aeroplane in the sky
An original drawing for the cartoon which appeared in his "Joe Ward abroad" (1911), page 41.
Reproduced in Making New Zealand, volume 2, no. 19, p. 26
Inscriptions: Recto - centre - Blue pencil means printed in red; Recto - beneath image - England awakes to the fact that her children are powerful
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Ink and blue pencil, on album page 245 x 306 mm.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Hiscocks, Ercildoune Frederick :Original caricatures (chiefly [of Sir Joseph] Ward) / E. F Hiscocks [1910 and] 1911 / Hiscocks, Ercildoune Frederick :Original caricatures (chiefly [of Sir Joseph] Ward) / E. F Hiscocks [1910 and] 1911
- Format
- 1 drawing(s), Works of art, Ink drawings, Pencil works, Cartoons (Commentary), Caricatures, Ink and blue pencil, on album page 245 x 306 mm.
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