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Print, The Kiss Accepted

This is a Print. It is dated 1760–1780 and we acquired it in 1921. Its medium is brush and watercolor on paper, mounted. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

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

Its dimensions are

59.4 × 83 cm (23 3/8 × 32 11/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermarks: necklace with pendant cross, and two tablets of a horn, over a tablet with "Auvergne 1742"

It is inscribed

In an escutcheon, bottom center: "OSCULUM ACCEPTUM / d'um sequitur Galatea sum nova sponsa Menal / cum Villorum princeps… / … / … / Dat Galatea viro". Below: "à Paris chez Basset rue st. Jacques au coin de la rue des Mathurins".

Cite this object as

Print, The Kiss Accepted; France; brush and watercolor on paper, mounted; 59.4 × 83 cm (23 3/8 × 32 11/16 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1921-22-282

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