Lot 330
330
LES DROITS DE L'HOMME, A PRINTED FAN the hand coloured etching with a statue of the King in Roman dress surrounded by departing clergy, a nun riding pillion with an officer and a monk being shaved by a lady, the reserves with an officer presenting a sword and a bicorn hat to a clergyman, a lady and gentleman with a nun, the verso with the four verses of Chanson sur l'Air de Figaro: 'A toi nonette adorable dans le cloitre ignoree...', with wooden sticks--11in. (27cm.), 1789
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LES DROITS DE L'HOMME, A PRINTED FAN the hand coloured etching with a statue of the King in Roman dress surrounded by departing clergy, a nun riding pillion with an officer and a monk being shaved by a lady, the reserves with an officer presenting a sword and a bicorn hat to a clergyman, a lady and gentleman with a nun, the verso with the four verses of Chanson sur l'Air de Figaro: 'A toi nonette adorable dans le cloitre ignoree...', with wooden sticks--11in. (27cm.), 1789

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LES DROITS DE L'HOMME, A PRINTED FAN the hand coloured etching with a statue of the King in Roman dress surrounded by departing clergy, a nun riding pillion with an officer and a monk being shaved by a lady, the reserves with an officer presenting a sword and a bicorn hat to a clergyman, a lady and gentleman with a nun, the verso with the four verses of Chanson sur l'Air de Figaro: 'A toi nonette adorable dans le cloitre ignoree...', with wooden sticks--11in. (27cm.), 1789
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Lot Essay

A variant of no. 26 in the Duchet collection, where the statue was the Statue of Liberty, and the verse differed

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