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1920

  • We acquired this object.

2016

2025

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Print, Album of Prints: New Collection of Ironwork in the Newest Taste, by Moreau

This is a Print. It was designed by Moreau and published by Louis-Joseph Mondhare and print maker: Jean Pelletier. It is dated 1761-1762 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.

Its dimensions are

Sheet: 24.8 x 39.8 cm (9 3/4 x 15 11/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Léon Decloux Ex Libris, printed on paper, pasted to the middle of the paste down endpaper of the upper cover.

It is inscribed

Inscribed in red ink in center of Léon Decloux Ex Libris: No. 6.; Inscribed in red ink, upper left: No. 6. p. / f-86.Bis. / R.27; Inscribed in graphite, upper left: C7 / S6; Inscribed in graphite, upper right: 1921-6-226 / I-81

Cite this object as

Print, Album of Prints: New Collection of Ironwork in the Newest Taste, by Moreau; Designed by Moreau; Print Maker: Jean Pelletier (French, born ca. 1736); Published by Louis-Joseph Mondhare (French, 1734–1799); France; Sheet: 24.8 x 39.8 cm (9 3/4 x 15 11/16 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-226

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