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This and 30 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Album, Album Containing Prints of Children's Scenes.

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1920

  • We acquired this object.

2016

2025

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Print, L’ARCHITECTURE

This is a Print. It was print maker: Jacques Bacheley and after Hubert-François Gravelot. It is dated mid- 18th–late 18th century and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Advisory Council. It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

It is inscribed

Lettered lower left in plate: Suivre les Plans traces par la droite Nature, / Toujours sur le vice abbatu; lettered lower right in plate: Elever dans son Coeur un Temple à la Vertu, / Ah! L’adorable Architecture.; lettered lower centre in plate: L’ARCHITECTURE.; numbered upper centre, in plate: 1; inscribed in graphite lower right margin: 28

Cite this object as

Print, L’ARCHITECTURE; Print Maker: Jacques Bacheley (French, 1712 – 1781); After Hubert-François Gravelot (French, active England, 1699 - 1773); France; etching on paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-349-28

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