Iron Gates of the Mint, Paris, Jacques-Denis Antoine, French, 1773–1801, Pen and black ink, brush and blue, brown, gray wash, with black chalk indications on paper with mounted overleaf, The gate set in a rusticated wall. The gate itself consists of two wings with two vertically oriented panels making up each wing. Centered in the upper panels are circular medallions with the royal chiffre (initials), surrounded by two laurel branches. Above entablature is the winged royal coat of arms between two cornucopias and flanked below by laurel twigs.

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