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Camille Joseph Etienne Roqueplan

La Lecture

Description

Maker

Camille Joseph Etienne Roqueplan (French, 1803-1855), designer
Charles Etienne Pierre Motte, printer

Title

La Lecture
Album de 12 Dessins

Year

1830

Medium

  • lithograph

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • lithograph

Materials

lithograph

Supports

  • Light weight Oriental tissue paper mounted on medium weight cream wove paper (chine collé)

Dimensions

13.5 x 19.2 cm (5 5/16 x 7 9/16 inches) (plate)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Original--Verso:in pencil, LL:10-2-69 A-27/ProutéIn plate--In UL:A; in UR:No. 12; in LL:C.lle (lle superscribed) Roqueplan del; in LR:Lith: de C. Motte; titled and inscribed, LC:LA LECTURE/à Paris rue des marais No. 13 Faub Saint Germain/Pub. in 1830 by C MOTTE, London 29 Bedford Street Covent Garden.

Marks: Charles Motte publisher's blindstamp on recto (Lugt 1828b)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Museum Works of Art Fund

Object Number

69.157

Type

  • Prints

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Camille Joseph Etienne Roqueplan (French, 1803-1855), designer
Charles Etienne Pierre Motte, printer
La Lecture; Album de 12 Dessins, 1830
lithograph
13.5 x 19.2 cm (5 5/16 x 7 9/16 inches) (plate)
Museum Works of Art Fund 69.157

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