"What Can You Say for Your Friends Now, Richard?"

The cartoon mocks Richard Cobden's pro-Chinese sentiments.

Wood engraving

Punch (2 May 1857): 184

Related cartoons on China

  • The China Question, January to June 1857
  • A Lesson to John Chinaman
  • The Great Chinese Warriors Dah-Bee and Cob-Deb
  • Cobdenisms

    • Scanned image by Philip V. Allingham; text by George P. Landow

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