Tricolor Handkerchief
Item
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Title (Dublin Core)
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Tricolor Handkerchief
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Description (Dublin Core)
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A square tricolor printed silk, with a standing couple in the centre: on the right, a woman [Italy] with a shining star as a diadem, wears a roman classical dress and shoes and holds a flag in her left hand; on the left a man in a French grenadier uniform stands resting on his musket.
Both man and woman have one foot on the double-headed eagle, emblem of the Austrian empire, drown on a stone.
In the background French grenadiers attacking on the left and people being defeated on the right.
An inscription under the composition says "REVEIL DE L'ITALIE".
One of the sources for the composition might probably have been "Liberty Leading the People" by Eugène Delacroix (1830), a big oil painting now in the Louvre, in Paris [1], but the symbol of Italy with the star (and tower) as a crown, and standing on the Austrian Eagle emblem, was popular [2].
This object has been manufactured in France.
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[1] Archived link
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[2] Archived link
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Type (Dublin Core)
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en
Handkerchief
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Date (Dublin Core)
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1859
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Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core)
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Italy
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Medium (Dublin Core)
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Printed silk
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Extent (Dublin Core)
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85 cm (w)
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87 cm (h)
Tricolor Handkerchief