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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2014.5
People
J. Benizy (active c. 1760)
Title
Value of the Assignat and other Paper Currency
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Value of the Assignat and other Paper Currency from the Time of Their Issue in France until they ceased to be legal tender
Original Language Title: Valeur des assignats et autres papiers monnoies depuis l'époque de leur emission en France, jusqu'à celle ou ils ont cessé d'avoir cours
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1804
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/349754

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching on cream wove paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
image: 24 × 35.5 cm (9 7/16 × 14 in.)
plate: 28.1 × 39 cm (11 1/16 × 15 3/8 in.)
sheet: 33.2 × 49 cm (13 1/16 × 19 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower right, graphite: 31[?]
  • inscription: lower left, in plate: J. Benizy dit Dubisson del. et sculp.
  • inscription: lower center, in plate: VALEUR DES ASSIGNATS ET AUTRES PAPIERS MONNOIES / Depuis l'époque de leur misƒion en France, jusqu' à celle ou ils ont cessé d'aovir Cours.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Joel R. Bergquist Fine Arts, Stanford, CA] sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2013

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Jakob Rosenberg Fund
Accession Year
2014
Object Number
2014.5
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Claudette Hould, L'Image de la Révolution Française, Musée du Québec (Quebec, 1989), pp 390-391, cat. no 145a, repr. (from Musée Carnavalet, Paris)

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