[The Aesthete]

5 February 1876

Wood engraving

Punch

This caricature of an aesthete who boasts that "he never reads a Newspaper, and that the events of the outer world possess no interest for him whatever" is paired with an ignorant charwoman rendered in lower-class dialect who shares his ignorance.

Scanned image and text by George P. Landow

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Last modified 2 February 2011