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Album, Album of Ornamental Ironwork Designs

This is a Album. It was designed by Jacques Valentin Fontaine and published by François Chéreau, the younger and Marguerite Caillou Chéreau and print maker: Jacques Valentin Fontaine. It is dated 1742–55 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 is inscribed

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

Cite this object as

Album, Album of Ornamental Ironwork Designs; Designed by Jacques Valentin Fontaine (French, active 1740 – 1760); Published by François Chéreau, the younger (French, 1717 – 1755), Marguerite Caillou Chéreau (French, active 1729–1755); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-309

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