Untitled political cartoon

 

Georges Villa

  1883 - 1965 (biography)

1905  

black ink with reddish watercolor wash 

9 3/4 x 6 1/4" " image 

upper right 

 

poem in French upper right and lower left; dated: 26 mai 1905 

 

heavy cream wove 

 

 

8466 

$400.00 

It appears that Villa is depicting the Russian bear kicking the British Navy while the Japanese navy (with a laughing rising sun) heads toward the Tsushima Strait on May 26, 1905. In the following 2 days, May 27-29, in a battle in the Tsushima Straits, Admiral Togo Heihachiro's main Japanese fleet destroyed the Russian Baltic Fleet, which was commanded by Admiral Z.P. Rozhestvensky. From a San Francisco estate which included a number of items related to General d'Osnobichine, who was also an artist. Georges Villa (1883-1965) was a French illustrator, painter, printmaker and noted charicaturist.