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Album, Album of Ornamental Letter Designs

This is a Album. It was designed by Jean Baptiste Piauger and published by Nicolas-Martin Tilliard. It is dated 1767 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

Inscribed in graphite and red and black ink, upper left margin of upper cover pastedown: No. 189/ f. 99/ R.21/ cup 7/ &2 inscribed in graphite upper right margin of upper cover pastedown: 1921-6-375/ 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. 189

Cite this object as

Album, Album of Ornamental Letter Designs; Designed by Jean Baptiste Piauger (French, active 1760s); Published by Nicolas-Martin Tilliard (French, 1723? – 1773); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-375

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