2018Revolutionary Romania In Painting - First Day Cover

170 years ago, the first major national movement took place in the Romanian Principalities, in the context of the Revolution of 1848, a social and political event spread out in all Europe. To honour the people and events of those times, Romfilatelia introduces into circulation the postage stamp issue “Revolutionary Romania” in painting, dedicated to the expression of national sense through art. On the stamp of the issue, with the face value of Lei 5, is reproduced the painting Romania Breaking off Her Chains on the Field of Liberty, painted by Constantin Daniel Rosenthal. On the imperforated souvenir sheet, with the face value of Lei 28.50, another Rosenthal’s forty-eighter painting, Revolutionary Romania, is illustrated.