Raha leidja aumõiste (The Finder of Money's Sense of Honor)

Erik Obermann's pen-and-ink drawing depicts two figures in conversation—a tall, thin man smoking a pipe and a shorter, stout man in working clothes. The composition descends from 19th-century European caricature traditions established by Gillray and Daumier, using exaggerated physiognomy and body language to satirize social types. The handwritten notes below suggest satirical commentary on honor, money, and social pretension. This work exemplifies how early-20th-century Estonian artists adapted the caricature and sketch traditions of political printmaking to local social commentary, before the rise of sequential narrative cartooning.