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This and 9 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Album, Album of Balustrade (Rail) Designs.

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1920

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2016

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Print, New Book of Ironwork for Various Balustrades

This is a Print. It was designed by Gabriel Bonthomme and published by Jean-Baptiste Crépy. It is dated 1775 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching 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 signed

Lettered in plate lower left: A Paris Chez Crepy rue St. Jacques à l’image St. Pierre

It is inscribed

Numbered in plate upper right corner: I; lettered in plate, center: NOUVEAU LIVRE/ de Serrurerie/ De differents Balcons composés par Gabriel / Bonthomme Mtre. Serrurier rue St. Jacques près/ lEglise St. Jacques du Haut-Pas, à Paris/ 1775; lettered lower right corner: Prix 24 s

Cite this object as

Print, New Book of Ironwork for Various Balustrades; Designed by Gabriel Bonthomme (Active in France, eighteenth century); Published by Jean-Baptiste Crépy (French, active 1753 – d. 1796); France; etching on paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-488-1

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