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Album, Album of Prints: Fountains Designed by François Boucher

This is a Album. It was designed by François Boucher and published by Gabriel Huquier and engraved by Gabriel Huquier. It is dated 1736 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is bound volume of 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.

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. 55.

Cite this object as

Album, Album of Prints: Fountains Designed by François Boucher; Designed by François Boucher (French, 1703–1770); Engraved by Gabriel Huquier (French, 1695–1772); bound volume of engraving on paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-266

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