Picture No | 10988333 |
Date | 1916 |
Description | Cartoon, The merry widow, WW1 |
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Cartoon, The merry widow (a reference to the operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehar), showing an exhausted woman representing Austria being danced off her feet by an Italian carabiniere. He tells her to save some of her strength for the Russian Bear who is coming for the next waltz.
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Source | Cartoon by Gerda Wegener in La Baionnette, 14 September 1916, p589 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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