[Trompe-l'oeil print of French assignats and coins]

Timespan:

18th century

Date:

1796

Description:

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.

Language:

French

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

Assignats -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800; Money -- France -- 18th century -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800

Resource Type:

Still Image

Form/Genre:

engravings (prints); trompe-l'oeil

Physical Description:

1 print : black and red engraving; engraved area 290 x 425 mm

Related Place:

France.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Title devised by cataloger.; Imprint place and date from bookseller's description.; Description based on example with indistinct plate mark.; 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.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, HG978 .F74 1796