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Photo, Print, Drawing Of Course Eight Feet are Needed for Dealing with an Ottoman. Per un ottomano è naturale che ci vogliano otto piedi

About this Item

Title

  • Of Course Eight Feet are Needed for Dealing with an Ottoman.

Other Title

  • Per un ottomano è naturale che ci vogliano otto piedi

Summary

  • This satirical watercolor by the Italian artist Raffaello Jonni is part of a series of 79 original drawings by Jonni preserved at the Alessandrina Library in Rome. It portrays an eight-handed Turk, being attacked by four soldiers, a Russian, an Englishman, a Frenchman and an Italian. During World War I the Russian Empire, the United Kingdom, the French Republic, and the Kingdom of Italy were allied against a coalition that included the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Kingdom of Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire. The allied soldiers are kicking the Turk with four of their collective eight feet. The illustration is thus a pun on the Italian word for Ottoman, Ottomano, which sounds similar to otto mani, meaning eight hands.

Names

  • Jonni, Raffaello Artist.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1915 to 1918]

Headings

  • -  France
  • -  Italy
  • -  Russian Federation
  • -  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • -  Turkey
  • -  1915 to 1918
  • -  Caricatures and cartoons
  • -  Military uniforms
  • -  Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
  • -  Personification in art
  • -  Satires (Visual works)
  • -  Soldiers
  • -  War posters
  • -  World War, 1914-1918

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 drawing : watercolor ; 63 x 81 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Alessandrina Library.
  • -  Content in Italian.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • World War I

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021670946

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

Jonni, Raffaello Artist. Of Course Eight Feet are Needed for Dealing with an Ottoman. Russian Federation Turkey United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Italy France, 1915. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1918] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670946/.

APA citation style:

Jonni, R. A. (1915) Of Course Eight Feet are Needed for Dealing with an Ottoman. Russian Federation Turkey United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Italy France, 1915. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1918] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670946/.

MLA citation style:

Jonni, Raffaello Artist. Of Course Eight Feet are Needed for Dealing with an Ottoman. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1918] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670946/>.