Sujet

French coming into the Prussian lines for bread, at the ferry of Sevres, 1871. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

French coming into the Prussian lines for bread, at the ferry of Sevres, 1871. Franco-Prussian War: a 'painful exhibition of distress was afforded by the starving French who came within the German lines to beg for bread, during the first two days of the armistice. The Engraving on our front page, from a sketch by our Artist at the German head quarters, represents this melancholy subject. The sketch was made at the Sevres ferry, where crowds of the poor people crossed the river with their baskets or bags to receive what might be given. Each person had to show a written pass at the landing-place'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A70_131

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

37,8Mo (3,0Mo) / 28,4cm x 33,3cm / 3356 x 3933 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Germany river female women woman people male child children man men hunger German arts country French France art guy occupation basket British geography territorial poor poverty military war hungry Seine River Seine location Armed Forces century gesturing Britain newspapers press soldiers soldier print begging TERRITORY concept B&W hand gesture Army voucher warfare engraved engraving 19th century black & white black and white B W Ile-de-France armed services Prussian civilian civilians nineteenth century The Print Collector 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian War geographical feature Hauts-de-Seine Illustrated London News Prussia Siege of Paris TGN wood engraving ILN Sevres newspaper Unknown Sèvres occupied territory raising hat 19th-century The Illustrated London News army of occupation vouchers