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1920

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Book, Album of Prints: Arabesques by Jean Démosthène Dugourc

This is a Book. It was designed by Jean Démosthène Dugourc and published by Jacques-François Chéreau and print maker: Jean Démosthène Dugourc. It is dated 1782 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is bound volume of engravings 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

27.1 × 20.8 × 1.3 cm (10 11/16 × 8 3/16 × 1/2 in.)

It has the following markings

Léon Decloux Ex Libris, printed on paper, pasted to the middle of the paste down endpaper of the upper cover.

It is inscribed

Inscribed in red ink in center of Léon Decloux Ex Libris: No. 97.

Cite this object as

Book, Album of Prints: Arabesques by Jean Démosthène Dugourc; Designed by Jean Démosthène Dugourc (French, 1749–1825); Published by Jacques-François Chéreau (French, 1742 - 1794); France; bound volume of engravings on paper; 27.1 × 20.8 × 1.3 cm (10 11/16 × 8 3/16 × 1/2 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-298

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