[Prise de la Bastille] par les Gardes Francaises et les Bourgeois de Paris, 14 Juillet 1789 a pierced wooden brise fan applied with an aquatint coloured by hand of the storming of the Bastille, and two smaller vignettes, stipple engravings, an allegory of liberty and an officer - 11in. (27cm.), French, 1789

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[Prise de la Bastille] par les Gardes Francaises et les Bourgeois de Paris, 14 Juillet 1789 a pierced wooden brise fan applied with an aquatint coloured by hand of the storming of the Bastille, and two smaller vignettes, stipple engravings, an allegory of liberty and an officer - 11in. (27cm.), French, 1789
Literature
There is an example of this fan in the Musee Carnavalet, exhibited Eventails, 1973, catalogue no. 137

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