Banknote Guilloche
紙幣のギヨシェ / 18th century– / Technique / Public Design
The banknote style in which lathe-cut guilloche curves and engraved portraits refuse forgery while making credit visible. America's 1896 Educational Series raised the banknote to allegorical masterpiece.
Continuous guilloche curves / Engraved intaglio portraits / Fine background lathework / Hierarchies of denomination
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- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- the geometric lathe / the Educational Series of 1896 / modern anti-counterfeit design