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A Fascinating and Colorful Broadside depicting the Eruption of the Mont Pelee volcano in Martinique.
This rare broadside depicts one of the great natural disasters of the modern era, the spectacular eruption of Mont Pelee in Martinique in April 1902. The stratovolcano of Mont Pelee makes up the northern part of the island of Martinique, long a French colony. The island's largest town, St. Pierre, with a population of 28,000 sat near the foot of the volcano. As shown in the present print, the volcano violently errupted, with ash and lava flows reigning down on the town. St. Pierre and much of the surrounding countryside were engufled and the entire town was destroyed. Over 30,000 people were killed, making it the most deadly volcanic erruption of the 20th Century.
As with the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, the erruption of Mont Pelee was a global media sensation. Printers across the globe sought to portray such an awesomely desructive event. The present broadside was printed in Weissenburg, Alsace (then part of Germany) in an attempt to capture the popular imagination, half a world away. The print is rare, and we are only aware of the example at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg.
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