Print, Title Page

This is a Print. It was designed by Thomas Laine and published by Dubois and Claude Niquet and print maker: J.J. Balechor. It is dated late 18th century 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.

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

Its dimensions are

Sheet: 43.3 x 27.2 cm (17 1/16 x 10 11/16 in.)

It is signed

Lettered lower center in plate: ‘A Paris chez Niquet Place Maubert près de la rue des Lavandieres et chez Dubois rue Grenelle St. Honoré vis-à-vis celle des deux Ecus’

It is inscribed

Inscribed and underlined in graphite, below the lower plate margin: ‘Balechou n’est que le graveur. Les Compositions sont de H. Lainé. Architect et Sculpteur du Roi.; inscribed in graphite, lower left margin: Voir Guillmard page 124 no. 97; numbered upper right in plate: 1; inscribed in graphite lower right margin: 1921-6-236(2)

Cite this object as

Print, Title Page ; Designed by Thomas Laine; Print Maker: J.J. Balechor (1716 – 1764); Published by Claude Niquet (French, active ca. 1769 – after 1831), Dubois (French, active ca. 1769); France; etching and engraving on laid paper; Sheet: 43.3 x 27.2 cm (17 1/16 x 10 11/16 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-236-2

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