Probable Effects of Over Female Emigration, or Importing the Fair Sex from the Savage Islands in Consequence of Exporting All Our Own to Australia!!!!! from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 c. 1851 - 1880

This satirical etching by George Cruikshank, titled "Probable Effects of Over Female Emigration, or Importing the Fair Sex from the Savage Islands in Consequence of Exporting All Our Own to Australia!!!!," depicts a scene of social commentary on the societal repercussions of the mass emigration of women to Australia in the mid-19th century. The work, created between 1851 and 1880, portrays a group of men gathered at a dock with a ship departing in the background. In the foreground, women of various ethnicities, labeled as “savages” in the title, are presented as replacements for the emigrating English women. The image uses caricature and social satire to critique the gender imbalance caused by mass migration to the colonies.