The Footprint on the Sand

John Gordon Thomson

Fun (5 March 1879)

“It happened one day about noon, going to see the inscriuption I had written in the sand, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a black man’s naked foot on the shore. I stood like one thunderstruck.” — Robinson Beaconsfield Crusoe

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Illustrations of the Footprint in the Sand

Three illustrations of this most famous incident in Defoe’s novel by Thomas Stothard (1790), George Cruikshank (1831), and George Housman Thomas (18763). [Click on images to enlarge them.]

Last modified 17 June 2019