Prime Joints of Missionary

This satirical sketch by Burrage depicts a figure operating a butcher's stall displaying severed limbs labeled "Prime Joints of Missionary." The crude pen-and-ink drawing, likely a wood engraving or lithograph, mocks missionary enterprise. The image participates in a centuries-old tradition of political and social satire descended from Hogarth, Gillray, and Rowlandson—artists who used exaggerated features and grotesque scenes to critique power and hypocrisy. By the 1860s, such caricature had become a standard tool of commercial journalism and comic illustration.