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This and 49 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Album, Album of Architectural Plans and Elevations.

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1920

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2016

2025

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Print, Elévation d’une face de Croisée, dont l’embrasement est orné d’une Contre-partie de Marseille / Elévation d’une face de Croisée, dont l’embrasement est ceintre d’une arriere-voussure de Marseille

This is a Print. It was designed by F. Cornille and published by François Chéreau, the younger and print maker: Monchelet. It is dated 1740–55 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching and engraving on laid 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 signed

Lettered in plate, lower left : Dessiné par F. Cornille.; lettered lower center: à Paris chés François Chereau, ruë St. Jacques aux deux Piliers d’Or. Avec Privilége du Roi; lettered lower right : Monchelet Sculp.

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, below plate, upper left margin : 31; lettered in plate, upper left: Liv. 8 / Elévation d’une face de Croisée, dont l’embrasement est orné / d’une Contre-partie de Marseille; lettered upper right : Elévation d’une face de Croisée, dont l’embrasement est ceintre / d’une arriere-voussure de Marseille.; numbered upper right : 1.; lettered lower center : Echelle de 12. Pouces / Echelle de 5. Pieds

Cite this object as

Print, Elévation d’une face de Croisée, dont l’embrasement est orné d’une Contre-partie de Marseille / Elévation d’une face de Croisée, dont l’embrasement est ceintre d’une arriere-voussure de Marseille; Designed by F. Cornille; Print Maker: Monchelet (French, active 18th century); Published by François Chéreau, the younger (French, 1717 – 1755); France; etching and engraving on laid paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-274-31

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