War Poster WWI Entente Cordiale British Spider Anglo French Alliance Prussian Eagle

Original antique World War One Anglo-French alliance poster L'Entente Cordiale 1915, featuring a grotesque illustration of a British spider crawling over France and devouring a French soldier. The web spreads across the Atlantic ocean wrapping Uncle Sam, France, Greece, Italy, and spreading into the Middle East. German Eagle sits on the rock in the foreground, with German U-boats cutting the strands of the web. The Entente Cordiale comprised a series of agreements signed on 8 April 1904 between the United Kingdom and the French Republic which saw a significant improvement in Anglo-French relations. The most important feature of the agreement was the mutual recognition that Britain was in full control of Egypt and likewise France of Morocco, with the proviso that France's eventual dispositions for Morocco include reasonable allowance for Spain's interests there. At the same time, Britain ceded the Los Islands (off French Guinea) to France, defined the frontier of Nigeria in France's favour, and agreed to French control of the upper Gambia valley; while France renounced its exclusive right to certain fisheries off Newfoundland. Furthermore, French and British proposed zones of influence in Siam (Thailand), which was eventually decided not to be colonised, were outlined, with the eastern territories, adjacent to French Indochina, becoming a proposed French zone, and the western, adjacent to Burmese Tenasserim, a proposed British zone. Arrangements were also made to allay the rivalry between British and French colonists in the New Hebrides. Poor condition, folds, staining in image, creasing, tears on edges, trimmed edges, pencil writing in bottom left corner. Country of issue: France, designer: Eugen von Baumgarten, size (cm): 54x44, year of printing: 1915.