Catalogue information

LastDodo number
5170695
Area
Drawings / paintings
Title
Off the Irish coast
Art object
Art Movement / style
Technique used
Colouring
Dimensions
57 x 39.5 cm
Series / hero
Collection / set
Number
Addition to number
Year
1916
Language
Details
Original brush and ink editorial cartoon drawing on art card, probably 1916, published in the New York Sun, shows the German Kaiser Wilhelm wearing a country bumpkin’s hat on a submarine with a bag of writhing snakes representing ‘plots’ that were to be turned loose in Ireland against the Allies. Before the Easter Rebellion in Ireland in 1916 the rebels sought and received help from Germany. The Germans sent a shipment of over 20,000 captured Russian rifles, 10 machine guns and 4 million rounds of ammunition to aid the Rising. However the shipment was lost when the ship, the Aud, was intercepted and scuttled by her captain off Fenit in county Kerry. After the Rising, there were plans to send another, much larger supply of weapons to Ireland in 1917, but the plan never materialised. Card size 58 x 36 cm (22 x 14 inch), image size 45 x 30 cm. Printing instructions in bottom margin. Signed lower right, in overall good condition.