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Print, Title Page, from "Fleures Persannes"

This is a Print. It was designed by Jean-Baptiste Pillement and print maker: Jean-Baptiste Pillement. It is dated ca. 1765 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Sarah Cooper Hewitt and Eleanor Garnier Hewitt. It is credited Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.

Its dimensions are

Paper: 41.8 × 38 cm (16 7/16 × 14 15/16 in.) Plate: 31 × 21.2 cm (12 3/16 × 8 3/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Part of watermark

It is inscribed

Title: "FLEURES / PERSANNES./ Inventées, Desinées, et Gravées a leauforte par / Jean Pillement / se vendent a Paris chez Leviez Marchand / d'Estampes Rue St. Andrée des Arts / vis-a-vis l'Hostel du / Chateau Vieux."

Cite this object as

Print, Title Page, from "Fleures Persannes"; Designed by Jean-Baptiste Pillement (French, 1728–1808); France; etching on paper; Paper: 41.8 × 38 cm (16 7/16 × 14 15/16 in.) Plate: 31 × 21.2 cm (12 3/16 × 8 3/8 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1920-36-210

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