BARREL ORGAN, A NEW SYSTEM FOR MAKING THE PRUSSIANS DANCE - Lot 249

BARREL ORGAN, A NEW SYSTEM FOR MAKING THE PRUSSIANS DANCE TOLL (Louis). Barrel Organ: A New System for Making the Prussians Dance. Plate from the *Actualités* series, No. 2. A caricature of the Franco-Prussian War depicting a French artilleryman turning the crank of a cannon converted into a barrel organ; the explosion sends Prussian soldiers flying through the air. Black lithograph. Paris, F. Wentzel, Printer and Publisher, 65 Rue Saint-Jacques. Signed “L. Toll” on the plate. Scattered foxing, more numerous in the margins; paper slightly browned.

Estimate:£50.76

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