Let me congratulate your majesty! You have done more in four years than I have in four thousand – Antique Print
![Let me congratulate your majesty! You have done more in four years than I have in four thousand, [ca. 1918] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/87/87d2a3122401-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Let me congratulate your majesty! You have done more in four years than I have in four thousand, a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Let me congratulate your majesty! You have done more in four years than I have in four thousand
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Here the German Emperor, William II, is addressed by a grinning demon, which is the detail that sets this poster apart from other war images of the Kaiser. The caption supplies the joke: the devil congratulates him on accomplishing in four years what would have taken the devil four thousand. The poster appeared around 1918, near the end of World War I, when Allied propaganda often cast the German leadership as responsible for the war's death and destruction. Barron Collier's name on the piece marks it as part of a patriotic series, and its moralizing tone, with its appeal to a moral and religious view of the conflict, reflects the way war posters of the period tried to hold the Kaiser personally accountable.
| Created / published | [ca. 1918] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | War posters 1910-1920.Prints Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Barron Collier patriotic series No. 2. |
| Subjects | William--II,--German Emperor,--1859-1941. World War, 1914-1918--Moral & ethical aspects. Demons--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,450 × 1,156 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 692_Let_me_congratulate_you_1918 |
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