Cartoon depicting Adolf Hitler portrayed as King Lear. Hitler/Lear is dressed in his SS uniform, his hat laying on the ground next to him. He is wearing a crown of weeds and raising his arms angrily to the moon, labelled "conquest of Britain." Caption title: "The August moon." Artist's signature in lower right corner: Bernard Partridge
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Cartoon was published on page 199 of Punch, volume CXCIX, no. 5187 (August 21, 1940)
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Item information about Folger Sh.Misc. 2323, page 199
Bound in a volume with other issues from Punch, volume CXCIX. Dark red cloth boards, stamped in blind, black, and gold
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