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[Trompe-l'oeil print of French assignats and coins].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection HG978 .F74 1796
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- Format:
- Image
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Assignats--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800.
- Money--France--18th century--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- engravings (prints)
- trompe-l'oeil
- Engravings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : black and red engraving ; engraved area 290 x 425 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [France] : [publisher not identified], [1796]
- Summary:
- Trompe-l'oeil print of many French revolutionary (and one royalist) "assignats" (i.e. paper bonds used as currency) and coins in various demoninations issued between 1786 and 1796.
- Notes:
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Imprint place and date from bookseller's description.
- Description based on example with indistinct plate mark.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2024 from Palinurus Antiquarian Books.
- Kislak Center copy: frame hand-colored in green and yellow; two assignats hand-colored in pink and one in blue; a few assignats partially hand-colored in black; background hand-colored in black.
- OCLC:
- 1428039618
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