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1914 poster showing Marianne, Mother Russia and Britannia.
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French political cartoon from the late 1890s, depicting European powers and Japan carving their shares out of China who protests in vain.
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Marianne is kept isolated from John Bull, Russian Bear and all the other European powers as Bismarck busily courts them.
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John Bull, a national personification of the United Kingdom holds the head of Napoleon I of France in an 1803 caricature by James Gillray.
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Germania representing Germany, in a painting by Phillip Veit from 1848.
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Eugène Delacroix, Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi (1827)
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Theodoros Vryzakis' depiction of Hellas as a woman surrounded by rebels of the Greek War of Independence
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España y Filipinas, 1886 painting by Juan Luna. Depicts the reformist view of the relationship between the Philippines and "Mother Spain"
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Italia and Germania by Friedrich Overbeck, symbolising the friendship between Germany and Italy
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Norway, Denmark and Sweden joining hands in a 19th Century poster
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Lech, Czech, Rus and the White Eagle
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Statue of Mother Svea representing Sweden on a building in Stockholm.
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World War I recruiting poster featuring John Bull.
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Brazilian Constitutionalist Revolution recruiting poster, showing a Bandeirante with the dictator of Brazil, Getúlio Vargas, in his hand.
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Allegory drawing depicting the friendship between the Argentine Republic and the newly-formed Brazilian Republic.
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Zé Povinho, caricature of a Portuguese working class man of the 19th century
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In this 1806 French print, the woman with the Menorah represents the Jews being emancipated by Napoleon Bonaparte
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James Gillray's cartoon on the 1803 Peace of Amiens, features a fat and non-martial Britannia kissing "Citizen François", a personifiaction of Revolutionary France never used by the French themselves
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Revolutionary Romania. Painting by C. D. Rosenthal, made in Paris exile in the early 1850s
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Romania Breaking off Her Chains on the Field of Liberty, also by C. D. Rosenthal
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A later depiction of Romania as a woman in a World War I French caricature
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Uncle Sam in a U.S. Army recruitment poster used in both World War I and World War II
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The figures in this late 18th century painting by Shiba Kōkan represent Japan, China, and the West.
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Columbia, personification of the United States ( World War I patriotic poster)
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Columbia, America personified as a young woman holding up a Phrygian cap on a clipper ship card of the Young America Movement
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Mother Canada statue in the World War I Vimy Memorial
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Polonia (Poland), by Jan Matejko, painted after the failure of the 1863 January Uprising.
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Lady of the mountain in Iceland.
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Cossack Mamay, personification of Ukraine and Ukrainians.
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Peru (left), Argentina (centre) and Chile (right), personified at the Mausoleum of General San Martín, Buenos Aires.
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Free Bulgaria; lithography by Georgi Danchov
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17th century map by Frederik de Wit showing mythological Europa as the continent's personification
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Europa regina in Sebastian Münster's "Cosmographia".
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"Mrs. Britannia" and her daughter "Miss Canada" discussing "Cousin Jonathan"(the US) in a 1886 political cartoon.
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Albanian caricature from 1913 shows Albania as a woman defending herself from beasts representing neighboring countries seeking at the time to divide Albania's territory between them: Montenegro (monkey), Greece (leopard) and Serbia (snake), saying: "Get away from me! Bloodsucking beasts!"
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