Textile, Paul et Virginie, ca. 1795 (CH 18667477-4)

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Textile, Paul et Virginie, ca. 1795 (CH 18667477-4)

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A series of pictorial vignettes illustrating the story of Paul and Virginia as originally told in the novel by Bernadin de St-Pierre (1788) and later in an opera (which changed the ending of the original story) by Kreutzer and Favieres (1791). Scenes include a shipwreck and scenes on a tropical island. In red on white.

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1795
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Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
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