I came across this picture in a bar and took a snapshot of it with my phone. I’ve come across before.
It is reminiscent of the Mechanical Head[2] by Raoul Hausmann and of course Le Canard de Vaucanson.
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![The Canard Digérateur, or Digesting Duck, was an automaton in the form of duck, created by Jacques de Vaucanson in 1739. Voltaire wrote that "without [...] the duck of Vaucanson, you have nothing to remind you of the glory of France." ("Sans...le canard de Vaucanson vous n'auriez rien qui fit ressouvenir de la gloire de la France.") This is often misquoted as "Without the shitting duck, we would have nothing to remind us of the glory of France."](http://www.artandpopularculture.com/Image:Duck_of_Vaucanson.jpg)
Lichanos, Paul, Suburban, John, anyone? I would think that it is a 19th century French engraving.
I have it in Dover’s Pictorial Archive book, MEN, but your version seems like a collage with cogs or something added to the forehead. The original is a Victorian guy wearing some kind of square headphones.
It was also used by Max Ernst in his collage novel “La femme 100 tetes”.
In The Ernst version there are no cogs on the forehead, but Ernst has given him a beard made of the torso of a naked woman, the top of her head is tucked under his chin and her arms raised on either side of his face. Her arms stop at her elbows and her body stops just above the pubis.
The caption reads “Then let me present the uncle whose beard we liked to tickle on Sunday afternoons”