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1910

  • Work on this object ended.

1920

  • We acquired this object.

2016

2025

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Album, PREMIER LIVRE DE NOUVEAUX DESSEINS, DE SERRURERIES. Inventé et gravé Par Babel

This is a Album. It was designed by Pierre Edme Babel and print maker: Pierre Edme Babel and published by Antoine Aveline and Charles Auguste Foulard. It is dated 1890–1910 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

Red leather lettering piece in the middle of the spine, gilt: BABEL – LIVRE DE NOUVEAUX DESSINS DE SERRURERIES; inscribed in red ink in center of Léon Decloux Ex Libris, pasted in center of upper cover pastedown: No. 296

Cite this object as

Album, PREMIER LIVRE DE NOUVEAUX DESSEINS, DE SERRURERIES. Inventé et gravé Par Babel; Designed by Pierre Edme Babel (French, 1720–1775); Published by Charles Auguste Foulard (French, 1870–1920), Antoine Aveline (French, 1691 – 1743); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-452

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