Count Waldersee in the spotlight, 1900
Count Waldersee, apostrophized as "Weltmarshall", commander of the German contingent of troops, which was to suppress the Boxer uprising in China in 1900. With this drawing published in the autumn of 1900 as the title page of "Simplizisissimus" was caricatured his martial public appearance and the resulting exuberant waves of patriotic enthusiasm in Germany.