Postage Stamp - Guinea - 2002

Title

Postage Stamp - Guinea - 2002

Type

Postage Stamp

Coverage

Guinea

Date Issued

2002-10-30

Description

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, Dante et Virgile aux enfers (known in English as The Barque of Dante or Dante and Virgil in Hell). 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

Extent

37 × 36 mm

Bibliographic Citation

Michel no. 3916 A

Contributor

Eugène Delacroix
Stamperija (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Language

French