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This and 31 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Album, Album of Hand Fan and Panel Designs.

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1920

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2016

2025

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Print, Two Panel Designs

This is a Print. It was designed by Bellay and published by Gabriel Huquier and print maker: Gabriel Huquier. It is dated ca.1734-49 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.

Its dimensions are

Sheet: 23.9 × 30.9 cm (9 7/16 × 12 3/16 in.) Platemark: 21.3 × 22 cm (8 3/8 × 8 11/16 in.) Image: 19.9 × 20.6 cm (7 13/16 × 8 1/8 in.)

It is signed

Lettered in plate, lower left: Bellay in.; lettered, lower right: Huquier ex. C.P.R.

It is inscribed

Numbered in plate, upper center: 15; numbered upper right: 16; inscribed in graphite lower right margin: 16

Cite this object as

Print, Two Panel Designs; Designed by Bellay (French, active from 1734); Print Maker: Gabriel Huquier (French, 1695–1772); France; etching and engraving on laid paper; Sheet: 23.9 × 30.9 cm (9 7/16 × 12 3/16 in.) Platemark: 21.3 × 22 cm (8 3/8 × 8 11/16 in.) Image: 19.9 × 20.6 cm (7 13/16 × 8 1/8 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-490-20

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