Note the attention given to racial "types" in the prognathous or "simian" jawline, and the constant identification of both the Irish and the African as similarly constucted and inferior.
Camper's Facial Angles (1821): 1. tailed monkey,
42º; 2. orangutan, 58º; 3. Negro, 70º; 4.
Kalmuck, 70º Camper's Facial Angles (1821): 5. European,
80º; 6. Grecian bust, 90º; 7. Roman bust,
95º, 8. a case of hydrocephalus, 100º "Time's Waxworks", Punch, December 31, 1899."Mr.
P: 'Ha! You'll have to put him into the Chamber of
Horrors!'" John Tenniel, "the irish Frankenstein", Punch, May
20, 1882. "The baneful and blood-stained Monster *** yet was
it not my Master to the very extent that it was my Creature?
*** Had I not breathed into it my own spirit?" * * *
(Extract from the Works of C. S. P-arn-ll, M.
P.)" The quotation from Mary Shelley's
Frankenstein identifies the Phoenix Park
assassinations as the work of the Irish pariliamentary
leader Charles Stuart Parnell. Thomas Nast, "The Day We Celebrate: St. Patrick's Day,
1867)", Harper's Weekly, April 6, 1867. James A. Wales, "An Irish Jig", Puck,
November 3, 1880. Note the imputation of drug abuse as well
as the suggestion that the Irish had helped misued what
rightfully belonged to the United States and Great
Britain. thomas Nast, "the Ignorant Vote: Honors Are Easy,"
Harper's Weekly, December 9, 1876. This illustration
depicts Irish immigrants in the north balancing the votes of
the newly-emancipated African American in the South during
the Reconstruction.







All images courtesy of L. Perry Curtis, Apes and Angels; The Irishman in Victorian Caricature (1971)
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