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, Arabesque Design

This is a Print. It was designed by P. Aubert and print maker: P. Aubert and published by Jacques-Simon Chéreau. It is dated 1788 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: 41 x 25.6 cm (16 1/8 x 10 1/16 in.)

It is signed

Lettered lower left, in plate: Aubert Parent Del.

It is inscribed

Printed lower center, in plate: CAHIER D'ARABESQUES / Composé et Gravé par Aubert 1788 / A Paris chez J.Chereau Rue St. Jacques près la Fontaine St. Severin aux 2 Colonnes.; Printed lower right, in plate: Avec Privilege du Roy. 1.; Printed upper right, in plate: A; Inscribed in graphite, lower right, in margin: 1921-6-228(7)

Cite this object as

Print, Arabesque Design; Designed by P. Aubert; Published by Jacques-Simon Chéreau (French, 176.–1807); France; etching and engraving on paper; Sheet: 41 x 25.6 cm (16 1/8 x 10 1/16 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-228-7

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