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Banner image from the supplement to issue 763 of L'Illustration.

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Artist

Name:
Unknown

Illustration

Subject:
Ornaments & Patterns
Technique:
Wood Engraving
Format:
Landscape (wider)

Periodical

Title:
L'Illustration
Author:
Collective work
Publisher:
Paris: Dubochet et Cie, 1857

Description:

Banner image used by the magazine L’Illustration for a cultural supplement to issue 763.

Famous world monuments are featured in the background while the foreground shows attributes of liberal arts on each side of a globe, as a way to express the universality of which L’Illustration prided itself.

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