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1920

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2016

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Album, Album of Rococo Ornament Designs

This is a Album. It was designed by François-Thomas Mondon and print maker: Antoine Aveline and Francois Antoine Aveline and published by François-Thomas Mondon, Antoine Aveline, Marie-Madeleine Aveline, Étienne Charpentier and Pierre Roguié. It is dated mid- 18th–late 18th century 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.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 30.5 × 24.3 cm (12 in. × 9 9/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in red ink and graphite, upper left margin of upper cover pastedown: No. 410/ 1921-6-531/ f. 85.Bis/ R. 52/ cup 7/ &. 4; Léon Decloux ex-libris pasted onto center of upper cover pastedown; inscribed in red ink in center of Léon Decloux Ex Libris: No. 410

Cite this object as

Album, Album of Rococo Ornament Designs; Designed by François-Thomas Mondon (French, ca. 1709 – 1755); Print Maker: Antoine Aveline (French, 1691 – 1743), Francois Antoine Aveline; Published by Pierre Roguié (French, 1713 - 17??), Étienne Charpentier (French, 1704 – 1793), Marie-Madeleine Aveline (French, ca.1690 – 1748); H x W: 30.5 × 24.3 cm (12 in. × 9 9/16 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-531

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