ID: 700000942 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000942	Record Type: Movable Work

[Assignats] (etching (print); unknown French printmaker; published ca. 1797; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 699056; (CMalG)1516-756; accession number: P980009* (bx.31,f.3))

Note: The trompe l'oeil print represents a beggar in the midst of assignats or paper currencies issued during the French Revolution. Forms part of: Prints of the French Revolution, 1774-ca. 1840 (Special Collections, accn. no. P980009*). Publication: [ca. 1797] (34501/publishers). The British Museum says of its impression of this print that the beggar reproduces, in reverse, a plate etched by Callot for his Gueux series, and that the subject is a satire on French currency and the issuing of assignats (paper money), which caused hyperinflation, a disastrous consequence on the economy and was blamed for widespread poverty.

Titles:

[Assignats] (preferred,C,U,RP,French-P,U,U)

Beggar surrounded by assignats issued during the French Revolution (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

etching (print) [300041365] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)

prints (visual works) [300041273]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: published ca. 1797

Creator Display:

unknown French printmaker [preferred,VP]

unknown French (French cultural designation) [500125235]

Locations:

Current: Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500353615] Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 699056; (CMalG)1516-756; accession number: P980009* (bx.31,f.3)

Credit Line: copyright J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections

Address Note: 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688

Display Materials: 1 print: etching, hand col.

	prints (visual works) [300041273]
	.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

	etching (printing process) [300053241]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)

	hand coloring [300133555]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <additive and joining processes and techniques>, coloring (process))

Dimensions: image 54 x 45.5 cm, on sheet 54.5 x 46 cm

General Subject:

satire (preferred)

allegory

history and legend

Specific Subjects:

	assignats (paper money) [300191546]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Exchange Media (hierarchy name), exchange media (objects), money (objects), <money by material>, paper money, <paper money by origin>, European paper money) (AAT)

	beggars [300188618]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by activity>) (AAT)

	trompe-l'oeil [300056506]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, artistic concepts, formal concepts (artistic concept), <visual and representational concepts>, illusionism) (AAT)

	French Revolution [901000102]
	.....((French history, European history, Named Events)) (ICON)

	inflation (economic concept) [300379084]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), social science concepts, economic concepts) (AAT)

	money (objects) [300037316]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Exchange Media (hierarchy name), exchange media (objects)) (AAT)

	satire (artistic device) [300055934]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, artistic concepts, artistic devices) (AAT)

	inflation (economic concept) [300379084]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), social science concepts, economic concepts) (AAT)

Provenance: lfell; Purchase.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
[Assignats]	........ [VP,GRISC]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 699056
Beggar surrounded by assignats issued during the French Revolution	........ [VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

Subject: ....... [VP,GRISC]

....................... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

Note:
English	..... [VP,GRISC]
	..... British Museum [online] (1999-)
	..... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)