Print, Cartouche Set on the Prow of a Ship

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-Gabriel Huquier and print maker: Pierre Edme Babel. It is dated 1743-1763 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching on 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.

Its dimensions are

Image: 30.2 x 19.8 cm (11 7/8 x 7 13/16 in.) Platemark: 33.4 x 22.1 cm (13 1/8 x 8 11/16 in.) Sheet: 45 x 29.5 cm (17 11/16 x 11 5/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: cluster of grapes close to Heawood 2121

It is signed

Lettered lower left, in plate: Dessiné et gravé par Babel

It is inscribed

Printed lower center, in plate: Cartouche pour le Commerce. / à Paris chés Huquier fils , ruë St. Jacques au grand St. Remy.; Inscribed in brown ink, lower right, in margin: 6; Inscribed in graphite, lower right, in margin: 1921-6-231 (25); On verso. Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower left: a curving horizontal pen line and the number 9

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