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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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1920

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Bound Print, DESSUS DE CLAVECIN GRAVÉ D'APRES LE DESSEIN ORIGINAL INVENTÉ PAR GILLOT

This is a Bound print. It was designed by Claude Gillot and print maker: Anne Claude Philippe Caylus and Louis Crépy and published by Edmé-François Gersaint and Louis Surugue. It is dated 1728–50 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: Retouchéz au burin par L.Crepy le fils.; Etched lower right, in plate: C. Sculpsit

It is inscribed

Printed lower center, in plate: AParis chez Gersaint Md.pont N.D. et chez Surugue ruë des Noyers. / DESSUS DE CLAVECIN GRAVÉ D'APRES LE DESSEIN ORIGINAL INVENTÉ PAR GILLOT. / avec privilege du Roi; Printed lower right, in plate: 2; Inscribed in graphite, lower right, in margin: 14.

Cite this object as

Bound Print, DESSUS DE CLAVECIN GRAVÉ D'APRES LE DESSEIN ORIGINAL INVENTÉ PAR GILLOT; Designed by Claude Gillot (French, 1673 - 1722); Print Maker: Louis Crépy, Anne Claude Philippe Caylus (French, 1692 – 1765); Published by Edmé-François Gersaint (French, 1694 – 1750), Louis Surugue (French, 1686–1762); France; etching and engraving on laid paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-224-15

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