Times are hard your majesty – you leave us nothing to do

Louis Raemaekers Flemish
Publisher Barron Collier American

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World War I poster.

Propaganda poster showing a devil, accompanied by two smaller devils, telling Kaiser Wilhelm II that he is leaving them with no work to do. This idea that the Kaiser was a figurative devil was a popular theme in American, British, and French propaganda.

Times are hard your majesty – you leave us nothing to do, Louis Raemaekers (Dutch, Brussels, 1869–?1956), Commercial color lithograph

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