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Print, DESSUS DE CLAVECIN GRAVÉ D’APRÉS LE DESSEIN ORIGINAL INVENTÉ PAR GILLOT
This is a Print. It was designed by Claude Gillot and published by Louis Surugue and Edmé-François Gersaint and print maker: Anne Claude Philippe Caylus and Louis Crépy. It is dated 1731–35 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.
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 left: Retouchez au burin par L. Crepy le fils; lettered lower center: AParis chez Gersaint Md. Pont N.D. et chez Surugue ruë des Noyers; lettered lower right: 2 a.C. Sculp sit
It is inscribed
Lettered in plate, lower center: DESSUS DE CLAVECIN GRAVÉ D’APRÉS LE DESSEIN ORIGINAL INVENTÉ PAR GILLOT/ avec privilege du Roi; inscribed in red ink, verso, upside down: 2 f 4 giunio 1776
Cite this object as
Print, DESSUS DE CLAVECIN GRAVÉ D’APRÉS LE DESSEIN ORIGINAL INVENTÉ PAR GILLOT; Designed by Claude Gillot (French, 1673 - 1722); Print Maker: Anne Claude Philippe Caylus (French, 1692 – 1765), Louis Crépy; Published by Edmé-François Gersaint (French, 1694 – 1750), Louis Surugue (French, 1686–1762); France; etching and engraving on laid paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-420-10