(POLAND). "Map of Poland to commemorate the Prussian Sejm's passing of a law expropriating Poles from their native land and banning the use of the Polish language at meetings."

(POLAND). "Map of Poland to commemorate the Prussian Sejm's enactment of a law expropriating Poles from their native land and banning the use of the Polish language at meetings".

Map on canvas, folded. Cracow (after 1910). Stanislaw Tomaszewski. Executed by the Slavic Lithographic Works of F. Dedera, Prague. Map in color lithography, size: 82 X 98 cm.
Numerous losses, stains and other damages, contemporary canvas. Political map with the borders of the pre-partition Republic of Poland, the western borders of the Kingdom of Poland and Galicia and the territory of Prussia to the Oder River. Around the map, portraits with signatures: of Polish members of the German parliament and the Prussian parliament, members of the tsarist Duma, and members of the Polish Circle in Vienna. At the top and bottom, the post of the rulers of Poland and the image of Our Lady of Czestochowa. On the right and left, coats of arms of provinces, coats of arms of Polish bishops, coats of arms of cities and Polish kings. On the left at the bottom is a reproduction of Jan Matejko's "The Prussian Homage." One of the more impressive historical maps from the period before World War I.