Judge, 1890-03-15 · page 16 of 16
Judge — March 15, 1890 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This is a two-panel satirical cartoon mocking wealthy New York elites on hunting expeditions. The top panel depicts "Lord Newgate" (a caricatured nobleman) on a Hudson River hunting trip, comically unable to hit a deer despite firing twice, requesting a "giraffe-gun"—the exaggeration suggesting incompetence and absurd pretension. The bottom panel shows a groundskeeper warning well-dressed gentlemen about damaging decorative iron statuary on a banker's country estate, with the threat of unleashing dogs. The satire targets the leisure activities and pretensions of the wealthy: their amateur hunting skills, their gaudy estates with affected decorations, and the class dynamics between aristocratic visitors and working servants. The humor relies on depicting the upper classes as simultaneously buffoonish and tyrannical.
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E 5 9 n x ° fo) 2 2 E 5 cs) THE STALKING OF THE DEER. Lorn HewGac (who has gone twenty miles up the Hudson on a deer-hunting expedi- Groom (on New York banker's country place)—" Th’ master says.if you gintlemen tion) —‘I've fired twice without hitting him, Pawker. Give me the giraffe-gun.” don’t shtop knockin’ th’ paint aff th’ iron statuary, he'll lave th’ dogs on yez.”