Banknote motif: ten different ornamental lathe work elements including a disk embellished with berries and flowers, a wreathed sword, a set of scales, a berried vine, an anchor and chain, a bracket of vine leaves and four designs for borders
Medium
Engraving and etching on chine collé; proof
Dimensions
plate: 2 7/16 x 4 7/16 in. (6.2 x 11.3 cm) sheet: 4 x 5 1/2 in. (10.2 x 14 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Joseph Veach Noble, 2002
Accession Number
2002.333.39
Tags
SwordsScales
About the Artist
A. B. & C. Durand & Company|Durand, Perkins, and Company|Cyrus Durand (American|American|American) · 1824 |1796 |1787 –1832 |1886 |1868
American, active 1824–32|American, Jefferson, New Jersey 1796–1886 Maplewood, New Jersey|American, 1787–1868