cliché
- Museum number
- 1865,0324.2254
- Description
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Bronze cliché. (whole)
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Storming of the Bastille: lower centre, a crowd of armed civilians with soldiers of the French Guard firing cannon at the Bastille, above, with smoke and flames visible on the battlements and smoke across centre enveloping the crowd: right, the chains of the drawbridge are broken and the inner courtyard is stormed. (obverse)
- Production date
- 1789
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 85.000 millimetres
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
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Commemoration of: Storming of the Bastille (14 Jul 1789)
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Associated Event: French Revolution (1789)
- Acquisition date
- 1877
- Department
- Coins and Medals
- Registration number
- 1865,0324.2254
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: BNK,F.M.25
