English: Title: Profitto delle sorgenti politiche

Abstract: Italian political cartoon shows several of the delegates to the Congress of Berlin alongside a small canal; at the head of the canal, governing the flow of water is Otto von Bismarck gesturing toward a waterfall labeled "Sorgente Politica" as he manipulates a dam labeled "Congresso"; standing on a board labeled "Accordi Segreti" spanning the canal is an Italian man with papers in his belt labeled "Trentino e Trieste"; on the lower left a French man is standing on the edge of the canal, he is holding an olive branch labeled "Pace", next to him, on a rock in the canal is a man labeled "Inglese" attempting to stuff a large glass jar labeled "Batum" under his coat; in the background, a Greek man is upside down in a glass of water labeled "Quistion Greca". On the right side of the canal a man labeled "Prussia" is operating a pump labeled "Inganni" to which a hose is connected labeled "Austriaco" and used by a man, possibly Gyula Andrássy, to spray an arc of water over the head of a person labeled "Rumeno"; another man labeled "Russo" is also spraying an arc of water over Rumeno's head with a hose connected to a pump labeled "Persecuzioni" operated by four figures labeled "Ebrei". Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 41.8 x 59.4 cm.

Notes: Letterpress newsprint of title page and back page printed on verso.; Grossi.; Title from item.; Caption: Quando si tratta d' acqua, felice chi può stare all' asciutto. È più contento quello che si bagna di vino.; Stamped on verso: Venie Abonnement / J. Baudet / Libraire Edr. Commissionnaire / 27 Rue St. Placide, Paris.; Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).; Illus. from: Le perroquet, journal politique charivarique illustré colorié, 6me année dimanche 21 Juillet 1878, n. 29 ; Supplemento al Papagallo, n. 29, anno VI.; Signed on stone on lower left.