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Album, Album of Arabesque Ornament Design and a Frontispiece

This is a Album. It was designed by Pierre Thomas Le Clerc and published by Jean-François Bastien and Laurent Guyot and print maker: Laurent Guyot and Jacques Le Roy. It is dated 1779–89 and we acquired it in 1920. 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 inscribed

Léon Decloux ex-libris pasted onto center of upper cover pastedown; inscribed in red ink in center of Léon Decloux Ex Libris: 143

Cite this object as

Album, Album of Arabesque Ornament Design and a Frontispiece; Designed by Pierre Thomas Le Clerc (French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796); Print Maker: Laurent Guyot (French, 1756 - 1808), Jacques Le Roy; Published by Jean-François Bastien (French, 1747 – 1824); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-337

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