Title: fu l' ultimo il briccone
abstract: italian political cartoon shows a drunken englishman struggling to remain upright at the base of a stairway in a wine cellar, he is holding an empty bottle labeled "cipro" at his side, behind him is a wine barrel labeled "indie" with two men labeled "ayah" and "emir" extracting wine, a wine barrel labeled "afganista" with two men labeled "tartaro" and "indigens", and a barrel in the background labeled "abissinia" from which three men are drinking wine. A man labeled "russo" can be seen through a barred window off the stairway, drinking from a pitcher labeled "armenia". At the top of the stairs, on the left, behind a gate labeled "noninterv", two boys, one labeled "greco" and the other wearing the hat of italy, are trying to get in. A pitcher labeled "asia" and a glass are on a wall in the lower left corner. Physical description: 1 print: chromolithograph; sheet 41. 5 x 58. 9 cm. Notes: letterpress newsprint of title page and back page printed on verso.;grossi.;title from item.;caption: yes! yes! cipro mi corroborare. Yes! capo gira. Yes! gambe fare flicch flocch! mia cantina in rivoluzione!. Ma un cipro vale. Vale un ministro.;forms part of: popular graphic art print filing series (library of congress).;illus. From: le perroquet, journal politique charivarique illustré colorié, 6me année dimanche 18 août 1878, n. 33; supplemento al papagallo, n. 33, anno vi.;signed on stone on lower left. Date: 1878.
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