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Italian political cartoon shows several of the delegates to the Congress of Berlin alongside a small canal; at the head of the canal, governing the flow of water is Otto von Bismarck gesturing toward a waterfall labeled "Sorgente Politica" as he manipulates a dam labeled "Congresso"; standing on a board labeled "Accordi Segreti" spanning the canal is an Italian man with papers in his belt labeled "Trentino e Trieste"; on the lower left a French man is standing on the edge of the canal, he is holding an olive branch labeled "Pace", next to him, on a rock in the canal is a man labeled "Inglese" attempting to stuff a large glass jar labeled "Batum" under his coat; in the background, a Greek man is upside down in a glass of water labeled "Quistion Greca". On the right side of the canal a man labeled "Prussia" is operating a pump labeled "Inganni" to which a hose is connected labeled "Austriaco" and used by a man, possibly Gyula Andrássy, to spray an arc of water over the head of a person labeled "Rumeno"; another man labeled "Russo" is also spraying an arc of water over Rumeno's head with a hose connected to a pump labeled "Persecuzioni" operated by four figures labeled "Ebrei".
Signed on stone on lower left.
Caption: Quando si tratta d' acqua, felice chi può stare all' asciutto. È più contento quello che si bagna di vino.
Stamped on verso: Venie Abonnement / J. Baudet / Libraire Edr. Commissionnaire / 27 Rue St. Placide, Paris.
Illus. from: Le perroquet, journal politique charivarique illustré colorié, 6me année dimanche 21 Juillet 1878, n. 29 ; Supplemento al Papagallo, n. 29, anno VI.
Letterpress newsprint of title page and back page printed on verso.
Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).
Alois Senefelder, the inventor of lithography, introduced the subject of colored lithography in 1818. Printers in other countries, such as France and England, were also started producing color prints. The first American chromolithograph—a portrait of Reverend F. W. P. Greenwood—was created by William Sharp in 1840. Chromolithographs became so popular in American culture that the era has been labeled as "chromo civilization". During the Victorian times, chromolithographs populated children's and fine arts publications, as well as advertising art, in trade cards, labels, and posters. They were also used for advertisements, popular prints, and medical or scientific books.
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