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This and 17 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Album, Album of Prints: Three Books of Ironwork.

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Print, Title Page

This is a Print. It was designed by Gabriel Bonthomme. It is dated 1777 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching and engraving on paper. 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

Printed upper right, in plate: 1ER. CAHIER / DE SERRURERIE / Inventé et Dessiné par B...en 1777.; Printed lower center, in plate: se Vent a Paris rue St. Jacques; Inscribed in graphite, lower left, in margin: 1921-6-244(1)

Cite this object as

Print, Title Page; Designed by Gabriel Bonthomme (Active in France, eighteenth century); France; etching and engraving on paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-244-1

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