Serio-comic war map for the year 1877

Title:: Serio-comic war map for the year 1877
Description:: Caricature map showing the political situation in Europe in 1877. Russia, depicted as an octopus reaching to many countries, battles with the Turkish Empire, depicted as a turbaned figure protecting his prized gold watch, Constantinople.
Cartographer:: Rose, Fred. W. (Frederick W.)
Name on Item:: by F.W. Rose
Date:: [1877]
Format:: Maps/Atlases
Location:: Boston Public Library
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center
Collection (local):: Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
Subjects:: Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878--Maps
Europe--Politics and government--Maps
Europe--Maps
Places:: Europe
Europe
Extent:: 1 map : color ; 44 x 61 cm
Terms of Use:: No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:: London : G.W. Bacon & Co.
Edition:: Revised edition
Scale:: Not drawn to scale
Language:: English
German
Notes:: Verso: Bacon's map of the seat of war in the East. No. 6.
Includes descriptive text in German and in English.
Notes (date):: This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):: Hill, Gillian. Cartographical Curiosities, pages 46 and 48
Identifier:: 06_01_014375
Call #:: G5701.S55 1877 .R67
Barcode:: 39999065701151