Chevalier de Souza Correa ('Brazil')

Leslie Ward ('Spy') presents the Chevalier de Souza Correa, Brazilian minister to London, under the caption 'Brazil' — shorthand for the diplomatic post rather than mockery of the man. The figure is rendered in the magazine's characteristic full-length mode: a heavyset gentleman in a dark three-piece suit, pince-nez on a cord, a cigar in one hand, the other thrust into a trouser pocket. The caricature exaggerates his girth and a neatly trimmed goatee but stops short of the ethnic distortion Ward and his predecessor Pellegrini sometimes applied to non-European subjects — the face reads as a fairly naturalistic portrait. As Men of the Day No. 722, Souza Correa's inclusion signals Brazil's growing commercial and diplomatic weight in late-Victorian London.