print;
broadside
- Museum number
- 1925,0701.73
- Title
- Object: Constitution De La République Francaise
- Description
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A broadside on the French Constitution of 1799; with an aquatint by Binet showing a tablet on a stepped plinth, the tablet listing the articles of the constitution, flanked on the left with a female figure representing France, on the R with Napoleon, on top of the tablet a cock with one foot on a sphere; with engraved title and text. (Paris, Bénard: [[ca.1800])
- Production date
- 1800 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 443 millimetres
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Width: 362 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The aquatint may be after Binet.
The calligraphy presumably by the printseller D Bénard.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1925
- Acquisition notes
- This was part of lot 227 in the 1925 Crawford sale; unsold and subsequently presented to the BM.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1925,0701.73