1916 THE GREAT WAR A NEUTRALS INDICTMENT 100 COLOUR CARTOONS BY RAEMAEKERS ART *

Description: I have here for sale an Elephant Folio book entitled THE GREAT WAR A Neutral's Indictment, One Hundred Cartoons by the Dutch artist, Louis Raemaekers. With an Appreciation by H Perry Robinson and Descriptive Notes by E Garnett. It is a collection of 100 colour tipped-in plates by Raemaekers which takes a satirical look at the Great War and its impact on the people involved. It is one of just 1000 copies that were published for sale. Louis Raemaekers (April 6, 1869 – July 26, 1956) was a Dutch painter, caricaturist and editorial cartoonist for the Amsterdam newspaper De Telegraaf during World War I, noted for his anti-German stance. Immediately after the Germans invaded Belgium, Louis Raemaekers became one of their fiercest critics. His message was clear: the Netherlands had to take sides for the Allies and abandon its neutral stance. His graphic cartoons depicted the rule of the German military in Belgium, portrayed the Germans as barbarians and Kaiser Wilhelm II as an ally of Satan. His work was confiscated on several occasions by the Dutch government and he was criticized by many for endangering the Dutch neutrality. The minister of Foreign Affairs John Loudon invited Raemaekers, the owner of De Telegraaf H.M.C. Holdert and the editor-in-chief Kick Schröder under pressure from the German government to a meeting, at which he requested them to avoid ‘anything that tends towards insulting the German Kaiser and the German army’. It was not possible to prosecute Raemaekers for as long as the country was not under martial law. But the pressure on him continued, also from Germany: in September 1915 the rumour even started circulating that the German government had offered a reward of 12,000 guilders for Raemaekers, dead or alive, but proof of an official statement has never been found. Raemaekers achieved his greatest successes outside his native country. He left for London in November 1915, where his work was exhibited in the Fine Art Society on Bond Street. It was received with much acclaim. Raemaekers became an instant celebrity and his drawings were the talk of the town. From early 1915 Raemaekers' cartoons had already appeared in British newspapers and magazines. In early 1916 he signed a contract with the Daily Mail and they appeared in this newspaper on a regular basis for the next two years. Half cream cloth hardboards on abstract marbled paper. Gilt decoration to the spine with gilt title lettering inside a red box to the head of the spine. Boards in very good/fine condition. Marbled paper is faded to the front board. Grey marbled endpapers. Plates mounted on thick grey paper with explanation the facing page. Gilt top edge. Pages in very good condition. 46 cm x 36 cm.We have over 2000 items in our Ebay shop on a range of subjects, so please feel free to have a browse and see if anything else takes your fancy.Postage will be by Air Mail outside of UK. If you buy more than one item then the postage cost falls for the second and further items as I will put them into one parcel - so you save money. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if it is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday.

Price: 59.99 GBP

Location: Whitegate, Cheshire

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