Hunting the Bugbear Adolf: Come along, Musso! You're in on This!

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Hunting the Bugbear Adolf: Come along, Musso! You're in on This!

Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976)

Price

£2,750

Signed

Signed
Inscribed with title and '(note) Italy's adherence to the the anti-communist agreement between Germany and Japan in reporter from Tokyo' below mount

Medium

Pen and ink

Dimensions

12 x 9 ¾ inches

Illustrated

Punch, 25 November 1936, Page 591

Exhibited

'E H Shepard at Punch, 1907-1952', Chris Beetles Gallery, July 2019

Fascist Italy had signed a treaty of friendship with Nazi Germany on 25 October 1936. However, the Italian leader, Benito Mussolini, was reluctant to establish a more formal alliance with Adolf Hitler. Therefore, when Germany and Japan established an Anti-Comintern Pact, against the Communist International, on 25 November, Italy chose not to participate. It would eventually do so on 6 November 1937.

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