Conferderation, a printed fan, the leaf an etching with Louis XVI Bailly, Mayor of Paris and Lafayette a flaming altar, attended by soldiers and watched by both royalist and revolutionary spectators, one through a telescope, and by Mirabeau, Mory [Abbe Maury] and Despreminille, and with two medallions suspended from oak trees one with a Pelican in its piety and the other with two pilgrims and another figure inscribed ?Laietre et les Plaideurs, with stencilled border and traces of sequinned decorations, trimmed with a tricolor silk fringe, the verso with the words of Ah:ca-ira.Dictom Populair.Air de la nouvelle Contre-danse le Carillon National, with wooden sticks, with bone filets - 11.5in. (29cm.), 1789 (slight tear lower border left, one stick repaired and stuck to lower guardstick)

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Conferderation, a printed fan, the leaf an etching with Louis XVI Bailly, Mayor of Paris and Lafayette a flaming altar, attended by soldiers and watched by both royalist and revolutionary spectators, one through a telescope, and by Mirabeau, Mory [Abbe Maury] and Despreminille, and with two medallions suspended from oak trees one with a Pelican in its piety and the other with two pilgrims and another figure inscribed ?Laietre et les Plaideurs, with stencilled border and traces of sequinned decorations, trimmed with a tricolor silk fringe, the verso with the words of Ah:ca-ira.Dictom Populair.Air de la nouvelle Contre-danse le Carillon National, with wooden sticks, with bone filets - 11.5in. (29cm.), 1789 (slight tear lower border left, one stick repaired and stuck to lower guardstick)
See Illustration Plate C

Provenance
Probably Duchet, with manuscript no.116

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