Cities, Globes & the Heavens
Paris Under Siege, 1871
Paris from the air, ringed by forts and Prussian lines.
- Map
- Pictorial map of the city of Paris and its environs
- Mapmaker
- Harper's Weekly
- Date
- 1871
- Held by
- Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library · via Digital Commonwealth
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
Harper's Weekly printed this bird's-eye view as a supplement on 11 February 1871, while Paris was encircled. It shows the principal buildings, monuments and parks, the French fortifications, and the Prussian lines of investment, the siege ring, all at once. The city looks almost peaceful from above, its boulevards and gardens laid out in full, until the eye reaches the forts and the lines drawn round them. A reader in America could see how tightly the city was held. A city portrait and a war report on one sheet.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain map held by Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library · via Digital Commonwealth — the work is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper or 400gsm canvas; framed pieces sit behind acrylic.
- Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed and linen-backed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our maps cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the sea monsters, the tiny place-names, the burin lines — on matte paper that holds every line without glare.
