Constitutions des Treize Etats-Unis de l’Amérique (Constitutions of the Thirteen United States of America)
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.This volume, compiled under the direction of Benjamin Franklin, contains the constitutions of the thirteen original American states and the Declaration of Independence translated into French. He ordered more than a hundred copies because he felt that "the extravagant misrepresentations of our Political State, in foreign Countries, made it appear necessary to give them better Information." This particular copy was presented to Louis XVI.
Artwork Details
- Title: Constitutions des Treize Etats-Unis de l’Amérique (Constitutions of the Thirteen United States of America)
- Publisher: Printed in Paris by Philippe Denis Pierres ; available at Pierres and
- Purveyor: Pissot Père & Fils
- Date: 1783
- Medium: Red and green gold-tooled morocco leather, gilt, blue paper endleaves
- Dimensions: Closed: 9 13/16 × 7 1/16 × 2 3/8 in. (25 × 18 × 6 cm)
Open: 9 13/16 × 14 3/16 in. (25 × 36 cm) - Classification: Books
- Credit Line: Bibliothèque Municipale de Versailles (Res 4̊ U114c)
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts