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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, Title Page

This is a Print. It was designed by Gabriel Bonthomme and published by Jean-Baptiste Crépy. It is dated ca. 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 center: Chez Crepy rue St. Jacques à l’Image St. Pierre

It is inscribed

Lettered in plate, center: Livre de differents Balcons composés/ par Gabriel Bonthomme Mtre. Serrurier/ rue St. Jacques près l’Eglise St. Jacques/ du Haut-Pas

Cite this object as

Print, Title Page; 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; 1921-6-488-5

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