You can see several joins in this large illustration where six small woodblocks are fixed together. Before publication, these joins would be neatened by one of the most skilled engravers in the office. Unusually, here there is some pen work at the central divide. This news illustration marks the end of the radical Paris Commune in 1871.
Dalziel after Francis S Walker, ‘The Last of the Commune’, full-page illustration for The Illustrated London News, Saturday 24th June 1871. Dalziel Archive Vol. XXVIII (1871), British Museum reg. no. 1913,0415.189, print no. 29.
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