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Album, Cahier d’Arabesques Composés par C.L. Desrais en 1789

This is a Album. It was designed by Claude-Louis Desrais and published by Jacques-François Chéreau and print maker: Jacques Le Roy. It is dated 1789 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

Inscribed in graphite and red ink, upper left margin of upper cover pastedown:94.f.40.Bis/ R.52/ C7/s6/; inscribed in graphite upper right margin of upper cover pastedown: 1921-6-296/ I-81; Léon Decloux ex-libris pasted onto center of upper cover pastedown; inscribed in red ink in center of Léon Decloux Ex Libris: No. 94

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Album, Cahier d’Arabesques Composés par C.L. Desrais en 1789; Designed by Claude-Louis Desrais (French, 1746–1816); Print Maker: Jacques Le Roy; Published by Jacques-François Chéreau (French, 1742 - 1794); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-296

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