Text: The Broken Colossus
Year: 1942.
Publisher: Punch magazine.
Artist: Bernard Partridge.
Additional information: Shows Mussolini as the Colossus of Rhodes, dressed as Caesar while straddling the Mediterranean, though his ‘Africa’ leg is broken.
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Text: The Broken Colossus
Year: 1942.
Publisher: Punch magazine.
Artist: Bernard Partridge.
Additional information: Shows Mussolini as the Colossus of Rhodes, dressed as Caesar while straddling the Mediterranean, though his ‘Africa’ leg is broken.

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