John, Jack and Alice

John Tenniel was the chief cartoonist of the British magazine Punch for some fifty years as well as the original illustrator of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass in 1865 and 1871 respectively.

The Nemesis of Neglect, a famous image and article published in Punch magazine on 29 September 1888 when Jack the Ripper, an unidentified serial killer, was stalking the streets of Whitechapel, London. The image was drawn by John Tenniel. It depicts a phantom in the street… pic.twitter.com/U1CThjtLwX

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There floats a phantom on the slum’s foul air,

Shaping, to eyes which have the gift of seeing,

Into the Spectre of that loathly lair.

Face it – for vain is fleeing!

Red-handed, ruthless, furtive, unerect,

‘Tis murderous Crime  – the Nemesis of Neglect!