This and 5 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Print, Album of Prints: New Collection of Ironwork in the Newest Taste, by Moreau.

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1920

  • We acquired this object.

2016

2025

  • You found it!

Print, Double Staircase with Iron Balustrade Design

This is a Print. It was designed by Moreau and published by Louis-Joseph Mondhare and print maker: Jean Pelletier. It is dated 1761-1762 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is engraving on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

Its dimensions are

Sheet: 24.6 x 40 cm (9 11/16 x 15 3/4 in.)

It is signed

Etched lower left, in plate: MOREAV.Jnet.f.

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, lower left, in margin: 1921-6-226 (6); Inscribed in graphite, lower right, in margin: L [?] 6

Cite this object as

Print, Double Staircase with Iron Balustrade Design; Designed by Moreau; Print Maker: Jean Pelletier (French, born ca. 1736); Published by Louis-Joseph Mondhare (French, 1734–1799); France; engraving on paper; Sheet: 24.6 x 40 cm (9 11/16 x 15 3/4 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-226-6

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