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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M25862.1-5
People
François Vivares, French (Montpellier 1709 - 1780 London)
Title
Booklet of Landscape Prints
Classification
Prints
Work Type
artist's book
Date
1739
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/78149

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Handcolored etchings in a brown paper stab-sewn binding
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
14.5 x 22 cm (5 11/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: front cover, brown ink, hand written: DtE / 17/6[crossed out] [?collector's (Benjamin Vaughn's) cataloguing and price?]
  • inscription: back cover, brown ink, hand written: 2/ / 2/2 [?collector's (Benjamin Vaughn's) price?]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Benjamin Vaughn, Collector. An 18th c. British intellectual (1751-1835), a friend of many American patriots, who imigrated to the United States in the 1790s with his extensive library, probably one of the most important in the new nation at that time.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
Accession Year
2003
Object Number
M25862.1-5
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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