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Map of Europe for 1870

Paul Hadol, 1870

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Premium fine art paper: 100% cotton, acid-free, archival
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  • Archival inks (Giclée process) on premium fine art paper (100% cotton, acid-free).
  • 1" border
  • Image Size: 12" x 7.8" – Total Size: 14" x 9.8"
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This satirical map from 1870 shows a Europe in crisis, bristling with tensions which would, come July that year, erupt into the Franco-Prussian war. The conflict’s political fall-out – French humiliation at the loss of Alsace-Lorraine and British fears about a now unified and much more powerful Germany – would play a major role in the outbreak of world war one more than 40 years later. For all its serious subject matter the map manages to lend a little humour to the affair, with each nation anthropomorphised as a comical caricature. Prussia is depicted as the enormous walrus-like figure of the “Iron Chancellor” himself, Otto von Bismarck. France, kitted out as a Zouave soldier from French north Africa, is seen heroically repelling the Prussian sprawl (it is worth pointing out that the map was first published in France). (Source: RwPixel / Library of Congress)

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