Political map Hark! Hark! The dogs do bark!
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POLITICAL MAP - FIRST WORLD WAR. JOHNSON, RIDDLE & CO, Ltd. Hark! Hark! The dogs do bark! With note by Walter Emanuel. London, G. W. Bacon & Co Ltd, 1914.
Lithograph map in colour, c. 490x710 mm without text, (c. 560x730 mm for whole sheet). Text below in English.
Satirical / political maps.
This ´Serio-comique map of Europe´ designed and printed by Johnson, Riddle & Co. in 1914, depicts the continent at war. European nations are represented by various breeds of dog with the British bulldog, the French poodle, the German dachshund and Russia illustrated as a great bear.
Britain is approached from the north by a giant sailor [Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admirality] holding numerous dog leads with battleships threatening the continent. Eastern Europe is dominated by a large steamroller driven by the Tsar of Russia flattening everything in its way.
Other European countries are identified by figures which are equally amusing - a Spanish bullfighter, a smiling Dutchman, a knife-wielding Greek ready to stab his neighbours in the back and an Italian carabinieri with pistol in hand.
A text by Walter Emanuel inserted below the map provides a commentary to the political situation in Europe in the early stages of the First World War. (British Library).
Konditionsrapport
Some soiling to margin, outer part of lower margin partly worn, minor foxing, has been folded.
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534776
Datum:
2018-04-28