<i>Title:</i> Desiderato debutto di miss conferenza
<p><i>Abstract:</i> Italian political cartoon shows circus performers getting ready to put on a show, the ringmaster "Signor Antonio", labeled "Austria", announces that the audience is waiting for them, a clown with a bell is labeled "Inglese", he is leaning over a small trampoline labeled "Trattato Di Santo Stefano", the band leader labeled "Russ" is flirting with a young woman labeled "Conferenz", who holding a riding crop, a dog lying at her feet is labeled "Turco", and Otto von Bismarck, as the lion tamer, is standing on the right. There are circus animals in the background; a goat is labeled "Grecia", an elephant, labeled "Egitto", is holding a ring labeled "Suez" with his trunk, two monkeys are labeled "Serbia" and "Rumenia", and the show horses are labeled "Dardanell", "Malta", "Gibilterre", "Bosfaro", and "Egeo".
<i>Physical description:</i> 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 41.5 x 59.7 cm.
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<i>Notes:</i> Letterpress newsprint of title page and back page printed on verso.; Grossi.; Title from item.; Signed on stone in lower right.; Illus. from: Le perroquet, journal politique charivarique illustré colorié, 6me année dimanche 12 Mai 1878, n. 19 ; Supplemento al Papagallo, n. 19, anno VI.; Caption: Signor Antonio-- Tartaifel! tut lo mondo volere conferenza fuori. Clown-- Suono il campanaro! Russo-- Mi raccomando, signorina, coraggio e forza nella gambe. Conferenza-- Saltero, ballero; ma ho una paura maledetta di far fiasco. Bismarck-- Se non salterai a dovere, avrai da fare con me.; Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).
Popular Graphic Arts
1878
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