Dropping the Pilot

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Dropping the Pilot is a political cartoon by Sir John Tenniel, first published in the British magazine Punch, March 1890. It depicts Chancellor Otto von Bismarck stepping off a ship, watched by the German Emperor Wilhelm II. Who is wearing the Tzars crown? check this against Britannica's picture.

The cartoon is well known in Germany and often used in history textbooks, under the title Der Lotse geht von Bord, (literally, The pilot leaves the ship).

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• Dropping the pilot at Encyclopædia Britannica