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Print, Environs de Rome

This is a Print. It was print maker: Charles Melchoir Descourtis and after Pierre Antoine Demachy and published by Charles Melchoir Descourtis. It is dated 1784 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is engraving in color ink on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was bequest of Erskine Hewitt. It is credited Bequest of Erskine Hewitt.

Its dimensions are

30 × 25.5 cm (11 13/16 × 10 1/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed at tondo; left: De Machy…pinxit; at right: C. Descourtis sculp…; center: [title, along lower margin: Dedié … Duc / de Chabos / Paris chez Descourtis…

Cite this object as

Print, Environs de Rome; After Pierre Antoine Demachy (French, 1723 - 1807); Published by Charles Melchoir Descourtis (1753–1820); France; engraving in color ink on paper; 30 × 25.5 cm (11 13/16 × 10 1/16 in.); Bequest of Erskine Hewitt; 1938-57-193

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