The First World War depicted as a dog fight
Alerte! Les Chiens Aboient! Traduit de l'Anglais de Walter Emanuel.
London: G.W. Bacon & Co., 1914. Chromolithograph. Sheet 555 x 750mm.
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A 'serio-comic' map of Europe, depicting the Great War as a dogfight with the British bulldog, French poodle and Belgian Griffon on one side and the German dachshund and 'Austrian Mongrel' on the other. Elsewhere the canine theme is abandoned: Tsar Nicholas is depicted behind the wheel of a steamroller that is crushing the Austrian's tail.
This is a scarce printing in French of the famous ''Hark! Hark! The Dogs Do Bark!'' satire, designed for publishers by an unknown artist, accompanied by a translation of a text by Walter Emanuel.
Emanuel, a lapsed solicitor, wrote several children's books with canine themes: his 'A Dog Day or The Angel in the House' (1902) and 'Dogs of War' (1906) were illustrated by Cecil Aldin.









