'I can't believe my eyes' – Historic Reproduction
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic drawing of 'I can't believe my eyes'. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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'I can't believe my eyes'
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Few images from 1991 capture the end of the Soviet experiment as bluntly as this cartoon, which places Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Mikhail Gorbachev together under the heading of a funeral. The cartoon ran in the Waterbury Republican and the Middletown Press, and it was reprinted in a collection of Edmund S. Valtman's editorial work and in an annual best-of volume. Its year matters: by late 1991, the Soviet Union was dissolving, and cartoonists across the United States were treating communism's collapse as a matter of history rather than prediction. The title's expression of disbelief captures the surprise many observers felt as the system gave way.
| Created / published | 1991 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing. |
| Genre | Editorial cartoons American.Drawings. |
| Notes | Published in: The Waterbury Republican. Published in: The Middletown press. Published in Valtman : the editorial cartoons of Edmund S. Valtman, 1961-1991. Baltimore, Md. : Esto, 1991, p. 15. Published in The best editorial cartoons of the year, 1992, p. 21. Exhibited: American treasures of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 2003. (DLC/PP-1999:142.065) ljr / 020411. Unprocessed in PR13 CN 1999:142.065 Publication information from the artist. |
| Subjects | Lenin, Vladimir Il'ich,--1870-1924. Marx, Karl,--1818-1883. Stalin, Joseph,--1879-1953. Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich,--1931- Communism--Soviet Union--1990-2000. Funeral rites & ceremonies--1990-2000. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,279 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-206303 |
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