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Italian political cartoon shows the aftermath of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of Berlin; from left, a bottle-shaped airship labeled "Cipro", "Congresso", and "Angleterre", with a figure identified as John Bull sitting on a fish attached to the balloon, he is holding a paper hat labeled "Batum"; next is a parachute labeled "Francia" with a man standing in a top hat-shaped basket suspended below, he is scattering papers labeled "Procetto", "Conciliazione", "Nota", "Trattato", "Accordo", and "Interessi"; next is a large airship labeled "Russia" with Aleksandr Gorchakov labeled "Russo" standing in saucer below, he is dripping water; next, at top, is an elephant-shaped airship labeled "Prussia" with a skeleton figure riding on a cannon barrel labeled "Berlino"; below is a pear-shaped airship labeled "Austria" with two bags for ballast labeled "Serbia" and "Montenegro", and with a man hanging onto the stem; at top right is an airship patterned after the Italian flag, it is labeled "Italia" and appears to have been patched with labels stating "Roma 1870", "Venezia 66", "Torino", and "Firenze", a man rides in a ring below with a parrot on a leash; at middle right is another patched airship labeled "Turchi", the patches are labeled "Sebastopol", "Trattato 1840", and "Santo Stefano", with a Turkish man is lying on a door labeled "Sublime Porta", using a bellows in an effort to keep the ship afloat; and on lower right is torn balloon labeled "Indennizzo" to which a man labeled "Rumeno" clings.
Signed on stone on left center.
Caption: Cipriano John Bull se la gode. Il diplomatico pacifico seminatore di pace. Grande fatica Gortscakoffesca per sostenere il trattato del lapidato. La proboscide arriva tutti. L' uomo in pero teme e spera. La Porta cala. Il Rumeno si sente meno. Un terno al lotto e l'Italia è fatta.
Illus. from: Le perroquet, journal politique charivarique illustré colorié, 6me année dimanche 28 Juillet 1878, n. 30 ; Supplemento al Papagallo, n. 30, 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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