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Print, Design for Chinese Pavilion in a Lake

This is a Print. It was designed by Jean Démosthène Dugourc. It is dated 1785 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is aquatint in brown ink 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.

Its dimensions are

Plate: 26.6 × 34.3 cm (10 1/2 × 13 1/2 in.) Paper: 32.2 × 39.7 cm (12 11/16 × 15 5/8 in.)

It is inscribed

Top margin: the number and "Détails du Sallon sur un lac." Bottom margin, the signatures, as A.

Cite this object as

Print, Design for Chinese Pavilion in a Lake; Designed by Jean Démosthène Dugourc (French, 1749–1825); France; aquatint in brown ink on paper; Plate: 26.6 × 34.3 cm (10 1/2 × 13 1/2 in.) Paper: 32.2 × 39.7 cm (12 11/16 × 15 5/8 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-68-2

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