Caricature map of Europe at the start of First World War

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European Revue. Kill that Eagle.

AMSCHEWITZ, John Henry
[London],
Produced by "Geographia" Ltd. 55 Fleet Str.,
[1914].
Chromolithograph map, folding into original pink paper covers with publisher's label.
500 by 720mm (19.75 by 28.25 inches).
2005

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Great Britain is personified by John Bull rolling up his sleeves and brandishing a cutlass; troops from Canada, Australia, India and Ireland are shown to his left, with the phrase "Business as Usual" written across England. To the continent Germany is represented as a swooping eagle, whose talon has grasped the French Marianne's bayonet. Austria the clown has been knocked off his ass by the German eagle, his right hand is being stung by a Bosnian bee, and bitten by a Serbia...

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BLMC Maps 1078.(43.)

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