Level | Piece |
Ref No | LDG/1/1/29 |
Title | The wise virgin |
Date | [c1970-1980] |
Extent | 1 cartoon |
Creator Name | Gibbard; Leslie David (1945-2010); cartoonist |
Description | Cartoon shows the allegory for Great Britain, Britannia holding her trident threateningly over a black man wearing a suit and smoking a cigar as he pumps oil from a BP tanker into a hole in the ground labelled "lamp trimming dept.". Britannia's trident is labelled "majority holding" and there is an oil lamp at her feet. The BP tanker is visible in the background as is an oil pump in the horizon. |
Access Status | Open |
Format | Drawing |
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