It sure is a feather in his cap!...." / Arthur Szyk." – Vintage Print
![It sure is a feather in his cap!...." / Arthur Szyk.", [1939?] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c1/c12327625ad2-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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A window into the past: It sure is a feather in his cap!...." / Arthur Szyk.", preserved in this historic drawing. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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It sure is a feather in his cap!...." / Arthur Szyk."
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Joseph Goebbels appears here with a feather in his cap, and the caption reads as sarcastic praise for a diplomatic windfall. The drawing is a small ink-over-pencil work on an index card, signed by Arthur Szyk, the Polish-born artist known for his sharp anti-Nazi caricatures in the late 1930s. The likely context is the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of August 1939 and the Soviet invasion of eastern Poland that followed in September, which allowed Berlin to present itself as the beneficiary of a cynical bargain made at Poland's expense.
| Created / published | [1939?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing on index card : ink over graphite underdrawing ; 6 x 4 in. |
| Genre | Political cartoons 1930-1940.Ink drawings 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Title from item. Signed in ink. Forms part of: Art Wood Collection of Caricature and Cartoon (Library of Congress). Unprocessed in WOOD/Szyk/5 |
| Subjects | Goebbels, Joseph,--1897-1945. World War, 1939-1945. International relations--Soviet Union--1930-1940. International relations--Poland--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,287 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-209078 |
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