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Lot 179

Le Retour de L'Ile du Diable - Illustrated Anti-Dreyfus Broadside - Paris, Late 19th Century

Le Retour de L'Ile du Diable, Entree Triomphale a Paris [The Return from Devil's Island, Triumphal Entry into Paris]. illustrated broadside - "Image Populaire No. 1". Paris: Leon Hayard, [ca. 1899]. French.
Hand-colored caricatures (with French text) mocking Dreyfus with his return to Paris from Devil's Island.
38X55.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Folding marks, creases to margins and some tears (one tear about 6 cm long to middle of poster, on the left).