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This and 12 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Album, Album of Ornamental Letter Designs.

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Print, Designs for the Letters G and H

This is a Print. It was designed by Jean Baptiste Piauger and written by Jean Henry Prosper Pouget and published by Nicolas-Martin Tilliard. It is dated 1767 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 inscribed

Numbered in plate, upper right: 6

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Print, Designs for the Letters G and H; Designed by Jean Baptiste Piauger (French, active 1760s); Written by Jean Henry Prosper Pouget; Published by Nicolas-Martin Tilliard (French, 1723? – 1773); France; etching and engraving on laid paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-375-6

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