Sujet

Monument at Bilbao to those slain in the Spanish Civil Wars forty years ago, 1874. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Monument at Bilbao to those slain in the Spanish Civil Wars forty years ago, 1874. 'The evil habit of Spanish political faction fighting, which prevailed forty years ago as it does now, has left its monument in the chief town of the Basque Provinces. Bilbao, as we recently observed, was more than once an object of contention, from 1833 to 1839, in the warfare between the Carlists and the Christinos...The monument at Bilbao was erected to commemorate those slain in the repeated conflicts that took place thereabout, when Queen Isabella, now a deposed Sovereign and exile, was a little girl, but one whose title was regarded by many Liberal politicians as the symbol of constitutional liberty for Spain. The Don Carlos of the present day, who is now holding the fortified lines of Somorrostro, three miles from Bilbao, against Marshal Serrano and the Madrid Government, was in those days not yet born. His cause, was then pretty much the same as it is now - that of Absolutism in Church and State'. Monument to "Honour the memory of the brave men who succumbed defending the national institutions of this invincible city, a Christian pantheon that piously preserves their selflessness and heroism as an example to future generations". Later demolished. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A32_478

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

25,2Mo (1,2Mo) / 22,7cm x 27,9cm / 2678 x 3291 (300dpi)

Mots clés

travel Europe architecture arts flag flags country Spain Spanish memorial statue statues sculpture art clothes British dress war location century banner textiles War Memorial victory Britain newspapers press clothing print concept Bilbao APPAREL B&W tourist attraction shawl standard wreath wreaths engraved engraving vizcaya allegory 19th century civil war black & white black and white B W allegorical Monument allegorical figure nineteenth century tourism The Print Collector artistic school Illustrated London News TGN wood engraving ILN Spanish Civil War Basque Provinces newspaper sarape Unknown 19th-century serape clothing & dress fashion & clothing The Illustrated London News First Carlist War