This and 9 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Album, Album of Prints: Fourth Book of Vases and Book of Arabesques by Aubert Parent.

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1920

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2016

2025

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Print, Vase After the Antique

This is a Print. It was designed by P. Aubert and print maker: P. Aubert and published by Chez Mondhare et Jean, Pierre Jean and Louis-Joseph Mondhare. It is dated 1789-1792 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching and 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: 43.7 x 29.5 cm (17 3/16 x 11 5/8 in.)

It is signed

Lettered lower left, in plate: Aubert P. fecit.

It is inscribed

Printed lower left , in plate: Fontaine formé d'un Tombeau Antique et débris / de Mabre qui se voit sur une place près la / Cathedrale de Tivoli Ville distante de / Rome 18 Milles; Printed lower center, in plate: Vase de Composition, le petit Esculape se voit à la Galerie / de Florence L'Autel est un Marbre Antique du Museum du / Vatican: Dessiné a Rome en 1789. par Aubert P. / IVE. CAHIER DE VASES / A Paris chez Mondhare et Jean rue St. Jean de Beauvais No. 4.; Printed lower right, in plate: Grand Sépulcre posé sur un Chapiteau / Corinthien et autre Fragment de Marbre / tel qui se voit sur la place près la / Cathédrale à Tivoli.; Printed upper right, in plate: 1.; Inscribed in graphite, lower right, in margin: 1921-6-228(1)

Cite this object as

Print, Vase After the Antique; Designed by P. Aubert; Published by Chez Mondhare et Jean, Louis-Joseph Mondhare (French, 1734–1799), Pierre Jean (French, 1754–1829); France; etching and engraving on paper; Sheet: 43.7 x 29.5 cm (17 3/16 x 11 5/8 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-228-1

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