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The Eclectic Collector · 17 September 2016
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1915 (8 May). After Fortunino Matania. The Last General Absolution of the Munsters. Personal copy of the
Editor of the Sphere.
A version of this print was published in The Sphere 27 November 1916. Matania’s original painting was destroyed
during World War II. On 8 May 1915, the eve of the Battle of Aubers Ridge, Father Gleeson addressed the
assembled 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers, at a roadside shrine and gave the general absolution. The
battalion suffered heavily in the battle and only 200 men paraded again afterwards. Framed.
Provenance: A gift from the editor of The Sphere to an ancestor of the current owner, who was a World War I veteran.
13 x 18½in. (33.02 x 46.99cm)
Estimate €500-€700 £430-£600
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 5051
Official History of the War: Military Operations France and Belgium. 1914. Maps volume
Macmillan, 1922. 32 Maps plus Plate - German Cavalry Division and German Corps, 1914. Condition very good
and clean, held in hinged map box, red cloth over stiff card; faded, slight buckling at sides.
Estimate €100-€150 £90-£130
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 51