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Album, Album of Prints: Three Books of Ironwork

This is a Album. It was designed by Gabriel Bonthomme. It is dated 1777 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.

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. 14.; Inscribed in graphite, upper right: 1921-6-244 / I-81

Cite this object as

Album, Album of Prints: Three Books of Ironwork; Designed by Gabriel Bonthomme (Active in France, eighteenth century); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-244

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