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This and 120 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Book, Album of Prints: Selected Works from the Oeuvres of Claude Gillot and Antoine Watteau.

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Bound Print, NEPTUNE

This is a Bound print. It was designed by Claude Gillot and print maker: Claude Gillot and Charles Nicolas Cochin the younger and published by Gabriel Huquier. It is dated 1729–37 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching and engraving on laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Advisory Council. It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

It is signed

Lettered lower left, in plate: Gillot inv.et Sculp

It is inscribed

Printed lower center, in plate: NEPTUNE / AParis chez Huquier, vis-¡a-vis le grand Châtelet. Avec priv.du Roi.; Inscribed in graphite, lower right, in margin: 10.

Cite this object as

Bound Print, NEPTUNE; Designed by Claude Gillot (French, 1673 - 1722); Print Maker: Charles Nicolas Cochin the younger (1715 - 1790); Published by Gabriel Huquier (French, 1695–1772); France; etching and engraving on laid paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-224-11

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