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Print, Designs for Wall Lights (Wall Sconces)

This is a Print. It was designed by André-Charles Boulle and published by Jean Mariette and Pierre Mariette and engraved by André-Charles Boulle and print maker: André-Charles Boulle. It is dated ca. 1715 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: Mariette excudit

It is inscribed

Lettered in plate upper left to right: Bras de cheminée à trois bran=/ ches, pour une gallerie; Bras a plaque; Bras de grandes cheminées; Plaque propre à rece=/voir deux branches; Bras pour un grand/ Cabinet; numbered lower right: 8; lettered lower right: Partie A de la branche du/ bras de Cabinet cy dessus/ dessinée en grand; lettered center right: Bras pour une chemi=/née de Cabinet/ A; lettered lower center: Branche d’un bras de cheminée; lettered lower left: Bras pour une cheminée qui se/ trouve dans un appartement dont/ les planchers sont bas; inscribed in graphite lower right margin of sheet: I AT

Cite this object as

Print, Designs for Wall Lights (Wall Sconces); Designed by André-Charles Boulle (French, 1642 – 1732); Published by Pierre Mariette II (French, 1634 - 1716), Jean Mariette (1660–1742); France; etching and engraving on laid paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-449-8

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