print;
broadside
- Museum number
- 1988,1105.27
- Title
- Object: La Nation, La Loi, Le Roi
- Description
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A broadside on the French Constitution of 1791; with an aquatint by Binet showing a tablet on a plinth, the tablet listing the articles of the constitution, flanked on the left with a female, bare-breasted figure wearing a liberty cap representing France, on the R the French national flag, 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: 445 millimetres
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Width: 368 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
- 1988
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased from Louise Simson, London SE15.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1988,1105.27