The Armistice
Artist and engraver unknown
11 ½ x 9 inches.
From The Graphic of 18 February 1871, p. 256.
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“An idealized image showing celebration of the Armistice in the Franco-Prussian War. The image forms a large and impressive front cover, although the Dickensian horse-play, with characters sliding on ice like Dickens’s Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol, seems oddly incongruous given the bitterness of the conflict.” — The Graphic
Image scan and text by Simon Cooke