Name: Guet-Apens

Barcode: 57356

Image Number: 57356

Permanent URL: https://oshermaps.org/map/57356.0001

Creator: Gill, Andre

Date/Date Range: 1872

Publishing Location: Paris

Notes: Sheet from "L'Eclipse" (cinquième année, No. 177, 17 March 1872)
André Gill was the pseudonym of Louis-Alexandre Gosset de Guines, French painter, satirist and caricaturist. The woodcut handcolored engraving is a political cartoon map of France after the fall of the Paris Commune published in L'Eclipse on March 17, 1872.  The Paris Commune governed Paris from March 18, 1781 until May 28, 1871. It was a radical socialist, anti-religious and revolutionary government that emerged after the chaos of the Franco-Prussian War and siege of Paris. France appears as a gigantic spider web with the fly at the center representing  the communards. A spider on the lower right corner represents the exiled Emperor Napoleon III.

Language: French

Material Type: Newsprint

Dimensions: Folded: 48 x 33 cm
Unfolded: 48 x 65.5 cm

LC Call Number: NC 970 1872.G5

OCLC: 1316713394

Accession Number: OML-1872-72