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This and 26 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Album, Album of Prints: Miscellaneous Ornament Designs by Pierre Edme Babel.

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Print, Ornament Panel with a Double Cartouche Showing Venus or Thetis with Her Nymphs and a Fountain

This is a Print. It was designed by Pierre-Edmé Babel and Pierre Edme Babel and etched by Pierre-Edmé Babel and published by Jacques Chéreau and print maker: Pierre Edme Babel. It is dated 1743-1763 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching on off-white 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.

It is signed

Lettered lower left, in plate: Babel invenit et Sculpsit.

It is inscribed

Printed lower right, in plate: a Paris chez Jacques Chereau,ruë St.Jacques au grand St.Remy.; Inscribed in graphite, lower right, in margin: 15 / 1921-6-231 (15)

Cite this object as

Print, Ornament Panel with a Double Cartouche Showing Venus or Thetis with Her Nymphs and a Fountain; Designed by Pierre Edme Babel (French, 1720–1775); Published by Jacques Chéreau (French, 1688–1776); France; etching on off-white laid paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-231-15

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