Paul Hadol’s comic map of Europe

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Nouvelle carte d'Europe dressee pour 1870.

[HADOL, Paul]
1870
Chromolithograph map.
1642

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German re-strike of Paul Hadol's comic map of Europe in the year 1870.

In the center, a buffoonish Prussia interacts with its suspicious neighbours. England is depicted as an old woman holding its dog, Ireland, by a leash. Spain and Turkey are portrayed as unconcerned women on the fringes relaxing with a cigarette and a hookah respectively. Corsica and Sardinia become an impish figure mooning the viewer. A rifle with a bayonet near the bottom edge is sardonicall...

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