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This and 27 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Album, Album of Designs for Gun Parts and Ornament.

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1920

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2016

2025

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Print, Gunmakers Workshop Surrounded by Ornament and Names of Parisian Gunmakers

This is a Print. It was designed by C. Jacquinet and print maker: C. Jacquinet. It is dated 1660 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is engraving on laid 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

Inscribed in graphite, upper left margin: avant le no. 2; Lettered in plate, upper left cartouche: Grasse a/ Paris; lettered upper left cartouche: Naudin/ A Paris; lettered upper right cartouche: Le Conte /A/ Paris; lettered upper right cartouche: De Foullois/ A/ Paris; lettered upper center: Des Granges A Paris; lettered lower left cartouche: A/ Paris/ Laligan; lettered lower right cartouche: A/Paris/Par Le/ Bourguignon; lettered lower left: Le premier poinct mis en pratique/ Janot apprend nom et surnon/ De tous les outils de boutique/ Fer Acier Cuivre Arain et Plom/ Tenaille a chamfrain et Ville; lettered lower center: De Narcy/ A Paris; lettered lower right: Tour Chevallet Fraisse coulisse/ Outils en Fer en Bois/ Et affin quil sen rejjouienne/ Son Maistre devant quil les tienne/ Luy en donne dessur les doits

Cite this object as

Print, Gunmakers Workshop Surrounded by Ornament and Names of Parisian Gunmakers; Designed by C. Jacquinet (French); France; engraving on laid paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-408-14

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