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Album, Les Cinq Sens de Nature Inventé & Dessiné par Jean Pillement

This is a Album. It was designed by Jean-Baptiste Pillement and published by Jean-Baptiste Crépy and print maker: Robert Cooper. It is dated 1758–89 and we acquired it in 1920. 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

H x W: 28 × 23 cm (11 in. × 9 1/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Léon Decloux ex-libris pasted onto center of upper cover pastedown; inscribed in red ink in center of Léon Decloux Ex Libris: No. 201.

Cite this object as

Album, Les Cinq Sens de Nature Inventé & Dessiné par Jean Pillement; Designed by Jean-Baptiste Pillement (French, 1728–1808); Print Maker: Robert Cooper (British, active 1795 – 1836); Published by Jean-Baptiste Crépy (French, active 1753 – d. 1796); H x W: 28 × 23 cm (11 in. × 9 1/16 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-381

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