Print, Studies of a Head

This is a Print. It was designed by Pierre Thomas Le Clerc and print maker: Jean-François Janinet and published by Chez Le Pere et Avaulez and dedicatee: Jean Baptiste-Marie Pierre. It is dated 1773 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is crayon-manner with red ink 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 lower left, in plate: Le Clere del.; lettered lower right: J.F. Janinet sculp.

It is inscribed

Lettered upper center, in plate: La Tête de face elevée en l’air se fait aussi dans les mêmes principes et proportions que celle de la feuille précédente,/ excepté qu’aulieu des sections paralleles, vous décrirés des cercles dont le centre sera dirigé vers le haut, comme/ il est marqué à la figure A.; lettered upper right, in plate: 2eme Cahier No. 4; lettered lower center, in plate: Pour racourcir et donner les principes de la têtes de face regardant en bas, vous decrirez les cercles dans le sens/ contraire, comme il est demontré à la figure B.; inscribed in graphite lower left, outside plate: 9

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