Print, Title Page

This is a Print. It was designed by Bachelier and published by Geneviève-Marguerite Chéreau and print maker: P.P. Choffard. It is dated 1760 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching and engraving on laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

Its dimensions are

Sheet: 26.8 x 21.3 cm (10 9/16 x 8 3/8 in.)

It is signed

Lettered center left, in plate: Bachelier inv.; center right, in plate: PP. Choffard sculp.; lower center: AParis chés la Ve. Chereau rue St. Jacques au 2 Piliers d’Or.

It is inscribed

Lettered lower center, in plate: COLLECTION DE CUL DE LAMPES ET FLEURONS / Inventés et Dessinés Par Mr. Bachelier, Peintre du Roy, / Tirée de la grande Edition in-folio des Fables de la Fontaine, / et Gravés par PP : Choffard./ Distribués en quatre Suites; Avec Privilege du Roy./ Iere. Suite.; numbered lower left, in plate : 1; lower right, in plate: a; inscribed in graphite, lower right, below plate: 1

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