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Nouvelle Carte D'Europe Dressée Pour 1870

Print
1870-1871 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Marchandeau (printer)
Hadol, Paul (caricaturist)
Place of origin
Paris (made)
Paris (printed)

Satirical print depicting a map of Europe in which the countries are formed from national characters. Omnipotent Russia, embracing all the German states, expands in every direction with one hand placed firmly on Holland and Belgium. With one knee she crushes Austria. With the other she pushes menacingly against the French frontier; France desperately repulses her. Print from a set of caricatures, broadsheets and illustrations in ten volumes. Each volume is half-bound in red leather, gold tooled and stamped with imperial emblems, title etc.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Caricatures & Cartoons
Object type
Print
TitleNouvelle Carte D'Europe Dressée Pour 1870 (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Hand-coloured lithograph on paper
Paper
Lithography
Hand-Colouring
Brief description
'Nouvelle Carte D'Europe Dressée Pour 1870'. Satirical illustration by Paul Hadol showing disposition of power in Europe at the beginning of 1870. Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1870-1871.
Physical description
Satirical print depicting a map of Europe in which the countries are formed from national characters. Omnipotent Russia, embracing all the German states, expands in every direction with one hand placed firmly on Holland and Belgium. With one knee she crushes Austria. With the other she pushes menacingly against the French frontier; France desperately repulses her. Print from a set of caricatures, broadsheets and illustrations in ten volumes. Each volume is half-bound in red leather, gold tooled and stamped with imperial emblems, title etc.
Dimensions
  • Height: 31.8cm
  • Width: 52cm
Dimensions from: Lambert, Susan. The Franco-Prussian War and The Commune in Caricature 1870-71. catalogue of a collection of prints in the possession of the Department of Prints and Drawings of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1971.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Nouvelle Carte D'Europe Dressée Pour 1870 L'Angleterre, isolée, peste de rage et un oublie Presque L’Irlande qu’elle tient en laisee. L’Espagne fume, appuyée sur le Portugal. La France repousse les envahissements de la Prusse, qui avance / une main sur la Hollande l’autre sur L’Autriche. L’Italie, aussi, dit à Bismarck: Ote donc tes pieds de là. La Corse et la Sardaigne. . . un vrai Gavroche qui rit de tout. Le Danemarck, qui a perdu ses / jambs dans le Holstein, espère les reprendre. La Turquie d’Europe baille et s’éveille. La Turquie d’Asie aspire le fume de son narguilhé. La Suède fait des bonds de panthère. Et la Russie ressemble à un / croquemitaine qui voudrait remplir sa hotte. Marchendeau 305, rue St Denis.' (Lettered)
  • 'Carte / drôlatique / D’Europe / pour 1870. / dressée par / Hadol' (Lettered in the shield within the design)
  • 'Hadol' (Signed)
  • '20 Centimes' (Lettered twice with price)
Gallery label
(27/05/1971-10/10/1971)
Paul Hadol (1835-75)

The map shows the disposition of power in Europe at the beginning of 1870. Omnipotent Russia, embracing all the German states, expands in every direction. With one knee she crushes Austria, whom she ousted from the German leadership during the Seven Weeks War of 1866. With the other she pushes menacingly against the French frontier; France desperately repulses her.

Process ebgraving, coloured by hand. E.366-1962
Subjects depicted
Caricatures
Men
Women
Bear
Place depicted
Europe
Bibliographic references
  • Lambert, Susan, The Franco-Prussian War and The Commune in Caricature 1870-71: catalogue of a collection of prints in the possession of the Department of Prints and Drawings of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, V&A, 1971
  • Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1962. London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.366-1962

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Record createdJanuary 27, 2009
Record URL
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