BELGIAN CONGO: Congo Belge.

Author	Frans LABULAIS (1903 – 1988).
Place and Year	Brussels [Visscher] 1949.
Technique	Offset lithograph on original wooden rollers (Small folds in the paper, tear in the upper part of the paper and the right side of the roller, otherwise in a good condition) 110 x 87 cm (43.3 x 34.2 i
Code	64541

Author

Frans LABULAIS (1903 – 1988).

Place and Year

Brussels [Visscher] 1949.

Technique

Offset lithograph on original wooden rollers (Small folds in the paper, tear in the upper part of the paper and the right side of the roller, otherwise in a good condition) 110 x 87 cm (43.3 x 34.2 i

Code

64541

Description

A colourful map on original rollers shows Belgian Congo, a Belgian colony in Central Africa between 1908 and 1960, what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Marked are cities, towns, rivers, factories, ports, Catholic and Protestant missions, mines of gold, diamonds, copper etc. As well as areas with different plants and animals.

The map was made by Frans Laboulais, a Belgian illustrator and author of pictorial maps.

Another version of this map was printed at the same time with an add printed on the hut in the lower left part.

Author	Frans LABULAIS (1903 – 1988).
Place and Year	Brussels [Visscher] 1949.
Technique	Offset lithograph on original wooden rollers (Small folds in the paper, tear in the upper part of the paper and the right side of the roller, otherwise in a good condition) 110 x 87 cm (43.3 x 34.2 i
Code	64541

Author

Frans LABULAIS (1903 – 1988).