Νέος Αριστοφάνης (New Aristophanes)

This Greek chromolithograph depicts the resignation of Prime Minister Theodoros Deliyannis through military and political caricature. Central figures in fez and military dress occupy a hillside landscape dotted with cannons and flags, rendered in the exaggerated physiognomic style typical of 19th-century European political satire. The print descends directly from the Gillray-Rowlandson tradition of lampooning government through grotesque portraiture and crowded allegorical scenes. The title invokes Aristophanes, the ancient Greek satirist, positioning contemporary politics within classical precedent. The chromolithographic process allowed vivid color reproduction of such broadsides for mass distribution—a technology that democratized political commentary across Europe and shaped the visual language of later newspaper comics and caricature.