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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.

2016

2024

  • You found it!

Bound Print, Berline à deux Fonds

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

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 upper right, in plate: 3; Printed upper center, in plate: Berline à deux Fonds.; Printed upper left, in plate, superimposed on carriage part outlines: Chassis du / Côté. / Gousset; Printed upper right, in plate, adjacent to carriage parts: Coulisseau de Côté. / Coulisseau de devant. / Coulisseau du derriere / du Coffre. / Coulisseau du devant; Printed lower center, in plate, above the scale: Echelle de 5. Pièds; Printed lower center, in plate: à Paris chez N. J. B. de Poilly rue S. Jacques à l’Esperance

Cite this object as

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

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