Kreuzland mb-height 2135 'Master Ritchie's Easter-Egg'

'Master Ritchie's Easter-Egg'

Original is oil on board 20x26

The specimen

Illustration from Essai thÚorique et expÚrimental sur le Galvanisme

Allegorical scene showing Time unveiling the mysteries of Nature whilst Science investigates

Kreuzland mb-height 2135 'Master Ritchie's Easter-Egg''Kreuzland, Kreuzland uber Alles', 1916. Plate 22 from The Great War: A Neutral's Indictment by Louis Raemaekers. The Dutch graphic artist Louis Raemaekers (1869 1956) produced fiercely anti German cartoons during the First World War. The Germans offered a substantial reward for him, dead or alive, and the Dutch government, under pressure from Germany, placed Raemaekers on trial on a charge of endangering Dutch neutrality. He was acquitted, but fled