Title
First Day Cover - Germany - 1971 - Folio-Print
Type
First Day Cover
Coverage
Germany
Date Issued
1971-09-03
Description
The cachet on this first day cover reproduces a detail from Eugène Delacroix's first major painting, Dante et Virgile aux enfers (known in German as Dante und Vergil in der Unterwelt and in English as Dante and Virgil in Hell or The Barque of Dante). The cachet is a separate piece, laminated, and pasted to the envelope.
Extent
95 × 166 mm
Contributor
Eugène Delacroix
Folio-Print
Language
German