A serio-comic map of Bismark’s Europe

A very scarce serio-comic map of Europe, featuring Otto von Bismarck as the Chancellor of the newly-unified German Empire. He is depicted as St Anthony, patron saint of animals, in pickelhaube and cape, his arms outstretched, holding ewers of oil and vinegar. Around Bismark, the countries of Europe are animals: Britain is a unicorn; France is a cockerel serenading monkeys; Austria is a double-headed turkey; Switzerland is a hedgehog; Italy is a poodle snarling at a cat; and Russia is a polar bear. 'Il Papagallo' was a satirical magazine founded in January 1873 by Augusto Grossi (1835-1919), which specialised in colour-printed caricatures like this one. 'Il Papagallo' closed in 1915, when Grossi was 70 years old.