After some researching, I found these three images (caricatures) which are mainly to my essay question .The three of them are related between each other for the same particular reason; each of them caused a big impact, directly or indirectly to the political and social situation in these specific countries . They shown that illustration can be a dangerous weapon or tool to combat political issues in tough times. Something so simple as a caricature can be the key to "rise the awareness" and conscience of the people , for very specific purposes.
These are the three images I selected:
-James Gillray
-Thomas Nast
"Nast’s depictions of Boss Tweed are justly credited with bringing him and his corrupt Tammany Hall cronies down. Tweed famously said, “I don’t care a straw for your newspaper articles. My constituents can’t read. But they can’t help seeing them damn pictures”."
-Louis Raemaekers
"During World War I, no cartoonist exercised more influence than Louis Raemaekers of Holland. Charged with “endangering Dutch neutrality,” his cartoons led the Germans to offer a 12,000 guilder reward for his capture, dead or alive. A German newspaper, summarizing the terms of peace Germany would exact after it won the war, declared that indemnity would be demanded for every one of Raemaekers’ cartoons. Example shown here: The German Tango."
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