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Dams on the Nile
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Dams on the Nile

Edward Linley Sambourne · 1898 · line block; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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An English company is granted permission to build two dams on the Nile. The river god of the Nile looks on in horror as a man with a shovel builds a small dam in the water. Cartoon in the English satirical magazine Punch, 1898.

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cartoonprintbuilding activitiesriverbarrage'Nilo' (Ripa)Nijl
Credit lineDammen in de Nijl. 1898. Edward Linley Sambourne. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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