Sujet

The Fighting in Paris: explosion in the Avenue Rapp, Champs Elysées, 1871. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Fighting in Paris: explosion in the Avenue Rapp, Champs Elysées, 1871. 'The explosion of the cartridge manufactory belonging to the Communist army, in the Avenue Rapp, Champs Elysées...[It] killed nearly 200 workpeople and others, wounded or maimed a larger number, and destroyed or damaged many of the houses in the neighbourhood. Bullets from the exploding cartridges, and fragments of shells, wounded many persons at a distance. The explosion was followed by a conflagration, which raged for some time'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A70_357

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

46,9Mo (4,1Mo) / 28,1cm x 41,8cm / 3316 x 4941 (300dpi)

Mots clés

building people male man men arts industry manufacturing country French France Paris art trade guy smoke fire British weapon weapons dramatic death industrial factory explosion war location disaster century explosive Britain catastrophe newspapers press soldiers soldier print concept ammunition Champs Elysees cartridge cartridges explosives B&W aftermath warfare engraved engraving Champs-Elysees 19th century black & white black and white B W weaponry Ile-de-France deaths armaments Champs-Elysées nineteenth century The Print Collector 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian War Illustrated London News industrial accident Siege of Paris TGN wood engraving ILN Avenue des Champs Elysees street newspaper Avenue des Champs-Élysées Champs-Élysées munitions Unknown Avenue des Champs-Elysées 19th-century The Illustrated London News