The peril of France - at the mercy of the octopus / Dalrymple.
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Print shows an octopus with the head of a French military officer (which may represent General Boisdeffre or General Gonse) wearing a plumed hat labeled "Militarism", that has settled over Paris, France, with its tentacles extending in all directions and are labeled "Deception, Dishonor, Forgery, Assassination, Corruption, Falsehood, [and] Blackmail"; caught in their grasp are military officers Georges "Picquart" and Alfred "Dreyfus", two female figures labeled "Honor" and "Justice", and the author Émile "Zola" holding a quill pen labeled "J'Accuse".
Illus. from Puck, v. 44, no. 1129, (1898 October 26), centerfold.
Copyright 1898 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
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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