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Arte e imagem nas notas do Banco de Lisboa.
Published by Lisbon, Banco de Portugal, 1996., 1996
ISBN 10: 9729479267ISBN 13: 9789729479267
Seller: Richard C. Ramer Old and Rare Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Large 4° (25.6 x 21.5 cm.), publisher's illustrated boards. As new. 183 pp., profusely and well illustrated, about half in color. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The work gives a general history of money, then discusses kinds of money used in Portugal, with color photographs of machines used to fabricate money. A section on the artists who collaborated on designs for new bank notes beginning in the early 1820s (pp. 49-108) includes a biography of the noted painter Domingos António de Sequeira (pp. 62-71), with color reproductions of many different examples of his works. Also of interest is the study and practice of engravings by Francisco de Borja Freire, who designed official stamps and medallions for use in nineteenth century Portugal (pp. 72-76). Among the other biographies of artists from the early eighteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries are of Manuel Luis Rodrigues Viana, Domingos José da Silva, António José Quinto, Romão Eloy de Almeida, Gregório Francisco de Queirós, and Augusto Fernando Gérard.The final section concerns the iconography of Portuguese bank notes. Mythological and allegorical figures feature prominently: for example, the dog Alciato (pp. 113-114); Fidelity is also represented by the image of a dog (pp. 115-116). Symbolic figures of Lisbon also occur, such as the corvo lisboeta (the raven[s] of Lisbon), and Lísia, the allegorical personification of the city of Lisbon (pp. 126-127). The appendix includes two graphs dating activity from 1822-1846. On facing pages are the issuance of gold and silver by the Bank of Portugal and the issuance of bank notes and ordens de cobre by the Bank of Portugal.***.
