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This and 3 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Album, Album of Designs for Furniture and Ornament.

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1920

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2016

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Print, Two Frieze Designs

This is a Print. It was designed by Jean-Baptiste Marie Huet and published by Gilles-Antoine Demarteau and print maker: Gilles-Antoine Demarteau. It is dated ca. 1782 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is crayon-manner in red ink 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.

It is signed

Lettered in plate, lower left: Huet del; lettered lower center: A Paris chez Demarteau Graveur Cloitre St. Benoit.; lettered lower right: Demarteau sculp

It is inscribed

Lettered in plate, upper right: 3e. cahier 1ere Pl.

Cite this object as

Print, Two Frieze Designs; Designed by Jean-Baptiste Marie Huet (French, 1745 - 1811); Print Maker: Gilles-Antoine Demarteau (1750 – 1802); France; crayon-manner in red ink on laid paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-321-3

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