Miniature Sheet - Guinea - 2002
<p>This miniature sheet features nine paintings by the French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) and is part of a much larger series of seventy-two stamps celebrating European painters. The stamps on this sheet reproduce the following paintings:</p>
<ul><li><a><em>The Barque of Dante</em></a></li>
<li><a><em>The Massacre at Chios</em></a></li>
<li><em>The Women of Algiers (In Their Apartment)</em></li>
<li><em>Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople</em></li>
<li><em>Liberty Leading the People</em></li>
<li>[Battle]</li>
<li><em>Christ on the Sea of Galilee</em></li>
<li><em>Death of Sardanapalus</em></li>
<li><em>The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan</em></li>
</ul><p>All of the stamps have a denomination of 750 FG (750 GNF).</p>
Eugène Delacroix
French
Miniature Sheet
Guinea
Postage Stamp - Guinea - 2002
This postage stamp was issued by Guinea as part of a series of nine stamps celebrating the French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix. The stamp reproduces a detail from his first major painting, <em>Dante et Virgile aux enfers</em> (known in English as <em>The Barque of Dante</em> or <em>Dante and Virgil in Hell</em>). At the top of the stamp is the denomination, "750 FG", and the year of issue; at the bottom is the country name, "République de Guinée". The stamp was printed by Stamperija, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Denomination: 750 FG (750 GNF)
Perforation: 13 ½ (comb)
Printing process: Offset lithography
Eugène Delacroix
Stamperija (Vilnius, Lithuania)
French
Postage Stamp
Guinea