Enlarge ! Von Grossem Sammelwert !- “Hark! Hark! The Dogs do Bark!” With Note by Walter Emanuel – Horch! Horch! Die Hunde Bellen! Mit einer Begleitschrift von Walter Emanuel.
- £sold
- Stock Code: 22985
- AMSCHEWITZ, John Henry, NÖLTING, Walter, Product Archive
- Author: E Zimmermann (copyist) - after an unidentified British artist
- Publisher: W Nölting, Hamburg (after Johnson, Riddle & Co (Printers) and G W Bacon & Co, London (the original publishers)) (publishers)
- Date: 1915
- Dimensions: Image: 65.5 x 44.2 cms / Sheet: 73 x 55.2 cms.
Description:
W. Nölting’s unusual German counter-version of Johnson Riddle’s original late 1914 satirical map of the European war
About this piece:
! Von Grossem Sammelwert !- “Hark! Hark! The Dogs do Bark!” With Note by Walter Emanuel – Horch! Horch! Die Hunde Bellen! Mit einer Begleitschrift von Walter Emanuel.
[Of Great Collectors’ Value! – Hark! Hark! The Dogs do Bark!” With Note by Walter Emanuel…]
Printed colour. Trace of old folds, with one or two small nicks and very minor paper repairs at fold junctures & sheet edges.
Two popular satirical maps published in Britain in late 1914 became the focus of a curious piece of German counter-propaganda in early 1915, when both were republished in their entirety, with appropriate propagandist commentary, by the Hamburg printing and publishing firm of Walter Nölting.
This is the first of these, an uncommon German counter version of the Johnson Riddle & Co. map, “Hark! Hark! The Dogs do Bark!” originally published in London by G W Bacon & Co in mid-November 1914. The full text of Walter Emanuel’s “Note” is reproduced in the original English alongside a full German translation.
The German text concludes with the following comments by the translator:
This article was translated to show to German people, with what hopes perfidious Albion proceeds and how our glorious victories will bring these hopes to an ignominious end. It seems just like this distorted picture, where the Bulldog needs a muzzle just as much as the Dachshund.
These two Nölting publications, like the British originals from which they were copied, would appear to have been privately sponsored “patriotic” initiatives, undertaken mainly with the idea of exploiting the commercial opportunities that such visually engaging & popular material offered to well-placed printers & publishers on both sides of the conflict in the course of the first eighteen months to two years of the wartime period between 1914 & 1916.