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print; ornament print; album

Object Type: print; ornament print; album
Museum number: 1938,0311.7.17
Title: Object: Quart de parterre à l'imitation de celuy qui est nouvellement planté devant la Grote de Meudon, sur le dessein de Mr Le Nôtre
Description: Plate 6: plan showing a detail of a parterre imitating the one designed by Le Nôtre for Meudon; with planting beds forming elegant arabesques, clipped trees, and a large pool Etching
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Production date: 1670-1700 (c)
Production place: Published in: Paris (France)
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Dimensions: Height: 290 millimetres; Width: 202 millimetres
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Curator's comments: See 1938,0311.7.12 for comment.
Bibliographic references: Berlin 1939 / Katalog der Ornamentstichsammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin (not described); Fuhring 2004 / Ornament Prints in the Rijksmuseum - the Seventeenth Century (not described); Guilmard 1880/1 / Les Maitres Ornemanistes: Écoles Française, Italienne, Allemande et des Pays-Bas (Flamande et Hollandaise) (not described)
Location: Not on display
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Associated places: Associated with: Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine) (château)
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Acquisition date: 1938
Acquisition notes: Bound in album of ornament prints, with pencil annotation 'Transferred from Dept. of Printed Books / to Dept. of Prints & Drawings 9/iv/38' on the second page, and with red stamp '5 NO 50' on the last print of the album.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1938,0311.7.17