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Print, Perfume Bottle and Box Design

This is a Print. It was designed by Pierre Moreau and published by Jean-Baptiste Crépy and print maker: Pierre Moreau. It is dated 1771 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 right below border: Crepy ex.; lettered lower left: Moreau inv. et. Sculp. 1771

It is inscribed

Numbered in plate, upper right: 5; inscribed in graphite lower right margin: 1921-6-418 (6)

Cite this object as

Print, Perfume Bottle and Box Design; Designed by Pierre Moreau (French, 1722 – 1798); Published by Jean-Baptiste Crépy (French, active 1753 – d. 1796); France; etching and engraving on laid paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-418-6

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