This incredibly rare map, the companion to the Thomas Onwhyn's 1854 caricature map, celebrates the end of the Crimean War with the Treaty of Paris.

The map was published by brothers William Frederick Rock and Henry Rock, and their brother-in-law, John Payne (the company, Rock Brothers & Payne). They were best known for establishing this genre of satirical anthropomorphic maps from the mid-19th Century.

Because of the public revulsion towards the conduct of the war, it was unlikely to have been a popular piece which accounts for its extreme rarity. There doesn't appear to be an example in any institution. Original colour. [EUR1509]