£1.20
Description
| Issued by | Banco Central do Brasil |
| Issue | ND (1986-1988) Regular “Cruzado” Issue |
| Size | 154 x 74 mm |
| Printer | Casa da Moeda (Brazil) – CdM |
| Watermark | Heitor Villa-Lobos |
| Series | A2843 – A7504 |
| Signatures | Luiz Carlos Bresser Gonçalves Pereira & Fernando Millet de Oliveira |
| Obverse | Portrait of Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) on a piano keyboard, with the left representing a Victoria amazonica in bloom. In the background an excerpt from the score of the work “Uirapuru”. The set of images is flanked by the phrase “Considero minhas obras como cartas que escrevi à posteridade sem esperar resposta” (I consider my works as letters that I wrote to posterity without waiting for a response), given by the maestro, repeatedly written in two overlapping lines, each for a line on each side. |
| Reverse | In the background, an engraving based on the work of Johann Moritz Rugendas, representing a primitive Brazilian forest on the bank of a river, where a canoe appears carrying people. The set of images is flanked by the phrase “Considero minhas obras como cartas que escrevi à posteridade sem esperar resposta” (“I consider my works as letters that I wrote to posterity without waiting for a response”), given by the conductor, repeatedly written in two overlapping lines, each for a line on each side |
