There was a man who lived in a shoe 

• 1942 
• Milians, Max P. 
• Drawing 
• Historical item 

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Drawings / paintings

There was a man who lived in a shoe

36 x 29 cm

1942

Original editorial cartoon on card in pen, ink and crayon, 1942, syndicated to a number of newspapers, shows Italian duce Mussolini in the ‘boot’ of Italy surrounded by many children representing different ‘interests’, ‘needs’ and ‘ties’. In the commonest version the nursery rhyme referred to here (‘there was an old woman who lived in a shoe’) continues: ‘she had so many children, she didn't know what to do’, and this just about sums up Mussolini’s situation as 1942 progressed, although it would not be until mid-1943 that he was deposed and imprisoned. Card size 36 x 29 cm (14 x 11 inch), image size 30 x 26 cm, signed lower right with nine zeros as underline. Caption in pencil in upper border, in good condition.