Lot #: 28363
Serio-Comic War Map For The Year 1877. |
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Selling price: $800
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Description
Fascinating political caricature map by Frederick Rose, printed by G. W. Bacon & Co., a bygone U.K. publisher of maps and atlases, of the countries of Europe, known as the Octopus Map from the brooding presence of the Russian Empire depicted as a massive octopus, whose tentacles stretch out towards Europe. In this map, the Octopus has Turkey and Persia, but has been wounded by Crimea and is being fought off by Germany.
Most of the other nations are cautious observers.
1877 was the year that Russia went to war against the Turkish seat of the Ottoman Empire, a conflict by which Russia hoped to gain permanent access to Mediterranean ports and wrest its Slavic brethren in the Balkans from Ottoman control. The war ended in 1878 after a disastrous Russian campaign and the intervention of the Western powers, with the British Navy moving to oppose a Russian move on Constantinople.
The Treaty of San Stefano ended the war and checked Russian expansion, but independence was granted to Romania, Serbia and Montenegro. Rose's wonderful map uses the device of illusionistic caricature to great effect, with each discrete state a representative figure (or conglomerate of figures).
Russia the octopus menaces the Turk, but the Turk's drawn a drop of blood from the devil-horned cephalopod's arm, roughly where Yalta and Sevastopol lie on the Black Sea. I can't make out the legend in the lower right of the picture, unfortunately.
Most of the other nations are cautious observers.
1877 was the year that Russia went to war against the Turkish seat of the Ottoman Empire, a conflict by which Russia hoped to gain permanent access to Mediterranean ports and wrest its Slavic brethren in the Balkans from Ottoman control. The war ended in 1878 after a disastrous Russian campaign and the intervention of the Western powers, with the British Navy moving to oppose a Russian move on Constantinople.
The Treaty of San Stefano ended the war and checked Russian expansion, but independence was granted to Romania, Serbia and Montenegro. Rose's wonderful map uses the device of illusionistic caricature to great effect, with each discrete state a representative figure (or conglomerate of figures).
Russia the octopus menaces the Turk, but the Turk's drawn a drop of blood from the devil-horned cephalopod's arm, roughly where Yalta and Sevastopol lie on the Black Sea. I can't make out the legend in the lower right of the picture, unfortunately.
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