Prints / Portraits & Caricatures

Bonneville, F. / Duchemin

Gilbert Mottier La Fayette Deputé d´Auvergne à l´asemblé nationale en 1789. Commandant Genéral le 13 juillet, à trahi sa patrie en paysant à l´ennemis.

Paris. Rue de Theátre de Francais. No year, but about 1800. 22 x 16 cm. Stipple engraving. Cut inside the plate mark in the lower margin.

Some browning and staining, largely to the margins.

Lafayette, as he is commonly known was a hero of both the french and the american revolution. An engraving by Duchemin after an original by Francois Bonneville. Collectors stamp of the great swedish 19th. century collector Christian Hammer on the back.

Item No: 3775