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Album, Album of Prints: Premier Essai de Papilloneries Humaines and Mes petits bouquets dédiés à Madame La Duchesse de Chevreuse by Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin

This is a Album. It was designed by Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin and published by Marguerite Caillou Chéreau and Étienne Fessard and print maker: Étienne Fessard and Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin. It is dated 1740-1757 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is bound volume of etchings 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

40.8 × 25.7 × 1.1 cm (16 1/16 × 10 1/8 × 7/16 in.) Open: 40.8 × 50.8 cm (16 1/16 × 20 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 ex libris: No. 227.

Cite this object as

Album, Album of Prints: Premier Essai de Papilloneries Humaines and Mes petits bouquets dédiés à Madame La Duchesse de Chevreuse by Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin; Designed by Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin (French, 1721–1786); Print Maker: Étienne Fessard (French, 1714–1777); Published by Marguerite Caillou Chéreau (French, active 1729–1755); bound volume of etchings on laid paper; 40.8 × 25.7 × 1.1 cm (16 1/16 × 10 1/8 × 7/16 in.) Open: 40.8 × 50.8 cm (16 1/16 × 20 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-402

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