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This and 18 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Album, Album of Ornament Designs.

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Print, Ornament Design with a Heraldic Achievement

This is a Print. It was created by Jean Bérain the Elder and designed by Jean Bérain the Younger and Jean Bérain, the elder and print maker: Jean Bérain, the elder and Jean Bérain the Younger and published by Nicolas Langlois. It is dated ca.1670–ca.1700 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.

It is signed

Lettered in plate, lower right: Berain f

It is inscribed

Numbered in plate, upper right: 7

Cite this object as

Print, Ornament Design with a Heraldic Achievement; Jean Bérain the Elder (French, 1640–1711); Designed by Jean Bérain, the elder (French, 1640 – 1711), Jean Bérain the Younger (1674-1726); Published by Nicolas Langlois; France; etching and engraving on laid paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-238-7

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Huguenot Legacy: English Silver, 1680-1760 from the Alan & Simone Hartman Collection.

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