As discussed in the introduction to this section, this is a horrific illustration, but is the sort of image that was common in Victorian print culture and needs to be remembered. I chose this figure because his gesture seems to me to reveal his outrage.
Dalziel after William Schwenck Gilbert (‘Bab’), ‘The King of the Cannibal Islands’, illustration for Gilbert, ‘The Christmas Entertainments’, in the magazine London Society (1869). Dalziel Archive Vol XXV (1869), British Museum reg. no. 1913,0415.1865, print no. 100. By Permission of the Trustees of The British Museum. All Rights Reserved © Sylph Editions, 2016