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This and 72 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Album, Album of Ornament Prints: Cartouches, Trophies, Vases, Tables.

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1920

  • We acquired this object.

2016

2025

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Print, Title Page

This is a Print. It was designed by Jean Bernard Honoré Toro and published by Claude-Nicolas Le Pas Dubuisson and print maker: Pierre de Rochefort. It is dated ca. 1716 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching 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 signed

Lettered in plate, lower center: Se vend/ A Paris/ Chez le Sieur du Buisson, rue de Guénéguad du côté/ du Pont neuf/ Avec Privilège du Roy; lettered lower center: De Rochefort Sculpsit.; lettered lower right: C.P.R

It is inscribed

LIVRE/ DE TABLES/ DE DIVERSES FORMES,/ Qui par la nouveauté, l’intelligence, & le bon-/gout des Compositions, & par la richesse des/ Ornemens n’est pas moins utile a ceux qui/ commencent à s’apliquer au Dessein, qu’a/ ceux que leur Profession oblige journellemt./ d’en faire usage/ Inventé par/ J.B. Toro,/ Mise au jour par les soins/ Du Sieur/ C.N. Le Pas-Du Buisson/ l’ainé/ Architecte du Roy/ Le quell donnera incessamment vue suite/ considerable des Ouvrages du mesme Auteur; inscribed in graphite lower right, below plate: 1; inscribed in graphite lower left, below plate: Guilmard. Suite No. 1 Complète 6 pièces./ page 115

Cite this object as

Print, Title Page; Designed by Jean Bernard Honoré Toro (French, 1661 - 1731); Print Maker: Pierre de Rochefort (French, ca.1673 – 1728); Published by Claude-Nicolas Le Pas Dubuisson (French, 1663 – 1733); France; etching on laid paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-411-1

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