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Design for a Frontispiece
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Design for a Frontispiece

Bernard Picart

1720

Medium

Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash; framing lines in pen and black ink

Tags

BoysMenWomenReadingWriting

Dimensions

5 1/4 x 3 3/8 in. (13.4 x 8.5 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Anne K. Jones, in memory of Edward Powis Jones, 2003

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Bernard Picart

1673–1733 • Kingdom of France

Comment on works: Printmaker

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