Colossal man in golden crown sitting on treasure chair surrounded by gold and jewels

**Image:** A colossal, grotesquely fat man with a golden crown, sitting on a huge chair of treasure, surrounded by gold coins and jewels. He holds a large fork in his hand, looking down at the workers below. **Above the rich man:** "Dig, my slaves! More mud, more gold for me! You are here only for my amusement!" **Above a worker, looking exhausted with a defeated look:** "We are not digging for our lives, but for his feast!" **In the background:** An engineer takes off his hat in panic and says: "This canal? More like a mass grave for our dreams!" **At the bottom of the cartoon:** A sign with the text: "North Sea Canal: The spectacle of the rich, built on the backs of the broken!" **Subtext:** "1876: While the elite gather, we perish in the mud!" This version is deliberately exaggerated, with a caricatured rich man and a dramatic expression of the workers' misery, giving the cartoon a satirical and grotesque tone Ver mais