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Album, Allegorical Figures Representing the Four Continents

This is a Album. It was published by Mlle. Dobe and print maker: Marie Michelle Blondel and after Jacques Dumont. It is dated 1736 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 has the following markings

Léon Decloux ex-libris pasted onto center of upper cover pastedown

It is inscribed

Inscribed in red ink in center of Léon Decloux Ex Libris: No. 287

Cite this object as

Album, Allegorical Figures Representing the Four Continents; Print Maker: Marie Michelle Blondel (French, active mid 18th century); After Jacques Dumont (French); Published by Mlle. Dobe (Active in France, eighteenth century); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-447

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