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France - Paris: Fontaine St. Michel et Boulevard Sebastopol – Historic Print

France - Paris: Fontaine St. Michel et Boulevard Sebastopol — antique lithograph
France - Paris: Fontaine St. Michel et Boulevard Sebastopol. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of France - Paris: Fontaine St. Michel et Boulevard Sebastopol. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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France - Paris: Fontaine St. Michel et Boulevard Sebastopol

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The print pairs the Fontaine Saint-Michel, a bronze-and-stone fountain in the Place Saint-Michel that shows the archangel Michael slaying a dragon, with the Boulevard de Sébastopol. The fountain was built in the late 1850s and early 1860s during Baron Haussmann's rebuilding of Paris under Napoleon III. The boulevard was cut through the city in the same campaign and named for the siege of Sevastopol in the Crimean War. The caption card records no date, so the print can only be placed generally in the later 19th century, when both were new and the city was being remade around wide, straight avenues.

Medium1 print : lithograph.
Genreold data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf."
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,105 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-136450

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