This is a 1893 printing of the petit journal illustré (supplement of the petit journal) published on august, 19. It is an attack on georges clemenceau, candidate to the 1893 legislative elections in the var. He is dancing with bags of sterling pounds, according to popular attacks at the time against him, treating him as an "agent of the united kingdom" and claiming he was involved in various scandals (panama, etc. ) according to michel winock's 2007 biography (p. 202), the guy whispering to him with a "semitic nose" would be cornelius herz, but it's rather a stereotyped (frequent in this illustrated newspaper) representation of the english people. This drawing goes hand in hand with an article by emile judet, in the petit journal (august 19, 1893), called "la litanie de clemenceau", a vicious attack on the later. Date: 19 August 1893.
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