Sujet

Searching for arms at Versailles, 1871. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Searching for arms at Versailles, [France], 1871. The Franco-Prussian War: 'a search for concealed arms in a private house, resolutely pursued by a party of Prussian Landwehr. The expostulations and protestations of the master of the house, the affected calmness but severe indignation of his wife, and the excited curiosity of his daughter, while their chests of drawers and presses are ransacked for contraband of war, seem very naturally portrayed. The little boy, too, sorrowfully bringing his toy-gun and offering to surrender it to the big German soldier, who looks down upon him with an expression of kindly fun, promising that he shall not be deprived of so valuable a weapon, is a pleasant figure'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A70_069

Model release

NA

Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

37,6Mo (3,7Mo) / 31,3cm x 30,1cm / 3697 x 3557 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Germany Europe building buildings female women woman people male boy boys child children man men house houses home German arts country French France toy toys art guy British weapon weapons gun guns military war location Armed Forces century Britain newspapers press soldiers soldier print rifles rifle Versailles concept bayonet search searching B&W toy gun Army warfare engraved engraving 19th century black & white black and white B W weaponry armed services bayonets civilian civilians nineteenth century The Print Collector 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian War Illustrated London News Siege of Paris TGN wood engraving ILN Ebenezer Landells newspaper Unknown 19th-century The Illustrated London News army of occupation Landells Ebenezer