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Album, Album of Title Pages, 1755–69

This is a Album. It was written by Pietro Metastasio and published by Giovanni Claudio Molini and Agathe Quillau. It is dated 1755–69 and we acquired it in 1920. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

It is inscribed

Léon Decloux ex-libris pasted onto center of upper cover pastedown; inscribed in red ink in center of Léon Decloux Ex Libris: No.16

Cite this object as

Album, Album of Title Pages, 1755–69; Written by Pietro Metastasio (Italian, 1698 – 1782); Published by Agathe Quillau (French, d.1764), Giovanni Claudio Molini (Italian, 1724 – 1812); France; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-233

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