2-917-938 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Cartoon: "Hark! Hark! The Dogs Do Bark", c1914. First World War propaganda, 'with note by Walter Emanuel'. Map of Europe with the principal protagonists depicted as dogs: the British bulldog, the French poodle, and the German dachshund. The Serbian wasp stings the Austrian mongrel. North of the British Isles is a puppet master in naval uniform (possibly Winston Churchill, at the time first lord of the admiralty) who is moving Royal Navy ships on station to blockade Germany by sea. The Russian Csar, accompanied by a bear, drives a steamroller, Turkey is represented by a man with an exaggerated aquiline nose wearing a fez. Designed and printed by Johnson, Riddle & Co, Ltd, London S.E.