Sujet

Ruins of Paris, 1871. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Ruins of Paris, 1871. Photographer with plate camera taking photographs of firemen extinguishing fires in buildings '...destroyed by the fury of the Communist faction...on the Place de la Concorde, at the corner of the Rue de Rivoli,...the remains of a great barricade, abutting on the wall of the Tuileries Gardens, were still to be seen. The front wall of the Ministry of Finance, in the Rue de Rivoli, had fallen in the conflagration, and the fire was not quite extinguished when our Artist made his sketch. In the foreground was the pedestal of one of the statues of female figures designed to represent the chief cities of France: this was Lille, which had been completely smashed by cannonballs or shells'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A79_468

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

36,9Mo (3,5Mo) / 27,9cm x 33,1cm / 3298 x 3908 (300dpi)

Mots clés

building buildings female women woman people male child children job technology man men destruction house houses arts country French France Paris art guy smoke occupation British ruins photography camera ruin war hose location debris rubble century Britain profession firefighter firefighters emergency services fireman firemen fire brigade newspapers press print hoses extinguishing concept ruined photographer B&W homeless homelessness old woman engraved engraving journalism 19th century elderly woman civil war black & white black and white B W Ile-de-France civilian civilians nineteenth century photojournalism photojournalist The Print Collector 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian War Illustrated London News photographic plate plate camera Siege of Paris TGN wood engraving ILN newspaper Unknown débris 19th-century The Illustrated London News