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Fan Design with Republican Assignats (French Revolutionary Money)

ca. 1795
Not on view
Printed in the mid-1790s, the illusionist collage of crisp French Republican monetary notes, or assignats, adorning this fan design would have signaled the user's anti-royalist sympathies. Significantly, the one note with a bent corner, and dated 1791, contains a portrait medallion of the dethroned and imprisoned Louis XVI. The whole design is surrounded by stylishly up-to-date neoclassical ornament, including a panel of Greek key design, another of coins and two terms bearing the head of Mercury, the guardian of finance.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Fan Design with Republican Assignats (French Revolutionary Money)
  • Artist: Anonymous, French, 18th century
  • Date: ca. 1795
  • Medium: Etching, a small portion printed in color
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 11 1/4 × 19 1/2 in. (28.6 × 49.5 cm)
    Framed: 16 × 21 in. (40.6 × 53.3 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938
  • Object Number: 38.91.56
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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