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This and 12 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Book, Album of Prints: Coach Designs from the Louis XV Period by Chopard.

Object Timeline

1920

  • We acquired this object.

2007

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2024

  • You found it!

Bound Print, Vis à vis

This is a Bound print. It was designed by Jean-François Chopard and print maker: Jean-François Chopard and published by Nicolas Jean Baptiste de Poilly. It is dated ca. 1750 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is 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.

Its dimensions are

28.9 × 45.4 cm (11 3/8 × 17 7/8 in.)

It is signed

Lettered lower left, in plate: J.F. Chopard Inv.

It is inscribed

Printed in plate, upper right: 1; Printed in plate, upper center: Vis a vis; Printed in plate, upper left, superimposed on carriage parts: Lisoire / Fourchette / Jante; Printed in plate, upper right, adjacent to carriage parts: Mouton / Lisoire; Printed in plate, lower center, above the scale: Echelle de 5. Pièds; Printed in plate, lower center: à Paris chez N. J. B. de Polly rue S. Jacques à l'Esperance

Cite this object as

Bound Print, Vis à vis; Designed by Jean-François Chopard (French, active 18th century); Published by Nicolas Jean Baptiste de Poilly (France, 1712 – ca. 1758); France; engraving on laid paper; 28.9 × 45.4 cm (11 3/8 × 17 7/8 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-272-1

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