This map, published by Johnson, Riddle and Company in 1914, is one of the finest examples of propaganda maps from the First World War.
Johnson, Riddle and Company was an association of cartoonists from south London who gained widespread popularity during the first two years of the First World War thanks to a contract to produce recruitment posters in the United Kingdom. Alongside this work, they also drew this iconic map in which various powers are represented as dogs.
The map is entitled Hark! Hark! The Dogs Do Bark, which refers to a nursery rhyme, which can be translated as “Listen! Listen! The dogs are barking.” This nursery rhyme refers to when the dogs in a village bark when a stranger arrives, and on the map, the dogs represent the conflict in the early months of the war in Europe. The only two countries represented by an animal other than a dog are the Russian Empire, with its characteristic bear, and Spain, with its characteristic bull.
At the bottom, the map is also accompanied by a text by Walter Emanuel explaining the various details of the map, such as the breeds of dogs representing each country, and using them to detail the events of the first months of the war.
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