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Guillaume Thomas Raynal – Antique Wall Art

Guillaume Thomas Raynal, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving
Guillaume Thomas Raynal, [no date recorded on caption card]. Antique engraving 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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A window into the past: Guillaume Thomas Raynal, preserved in this antique engraving. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Guillaume Thomas Raynal

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Guillaume Thomas Raynal, the French writer and historian, is the subject of this engraved portrait, a medium that suited the eighteenth-century taste for circulating likenesses of well-known authors and thinkers. Raynal rose to fame with his multivolume work on European colonies and trade in the Indies, which was widely read and debated across Europe and beyond. Engravings like this one helped spread the faces of such writers to readers who would never meet them. The record does not include a date, so the exact moment of production is uncertain.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 print : engraving.
NotesThis record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: B.I.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,219 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-157461

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