Online auction - Lot 118
Online auction - Lot 118
[Russia - Crimea]
Plan général de la Bataille de la Tchernaia le 16 août 1855.
1866
Starting bid: €
65
€ 80 / 120
Bidding via DrouotLot description
Lithogr., 75,5 x 53,7 cm, coloured (with a partial map joined and/or covering the area from Martinowka to Kadikoi, sm. defects).
Framed (not studied outside frame).
French topographic plan of the Battle of the Chernaya, fought during the Crimean War between Russian troops and a coalition of French, Piedmontese and Ottoman troops. Witnessed by Leo Tolstoy who composed a satiric stanza upon it.