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Entrance to the French Capuchin Monastery in Athens
Public Domain

Charles Meryon and Jacques-Philippe Lebas

Entrance to the French Capuchin Monastery in Athens

1854

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Entrance to the French Capuchin Monastery in Athens

1854

Physical Qualities Etching with drypoint, Sheet (trimmed): 246 × 151 mm. (9 11/16 × 5 15/16 in.) Plate: 193 × 125 mm. (7 5/8 × 4 15/16 in.) Image: 178 × 111 mm. (7 × 4 3/8 in.)
Portfolio/Series Page 76 in vol. 1 of "Athenes au XVe, XVIe et XVIIe siècles" by Count Léon de Laborde (Paris: 1854)
Credit Line Gift of Winifred M. Gordon, Baltimore, in Memory of her Husband, Douglas Huntly Gordon
Object Number 1992.230
Douglas Gordon Collection (Lugt 1130a).

Inscribed: Recto: in image, upper left, in plate "tome 1, page 76 -"; below image, lower left, in plate "C. Meryon sculp."; below image, center, in plate "Entrée du Couvent des capucins francais à Athènes."; below image, lower right, in plate "Pierron Delatre R Montfaucon I"; below image, lower left, in graphite "H(?)0[underlined] /84"; below image, lower center, in graphite "38-24 / bureau a chagrin 73 au Lafet(?)"; below image, lower right, in graphite "bo[indecipherable]de(?) French(?) / anneau(?)"; below image, lower right, in graphite "C32831"

Markings: CM: Gordon (Lugt 1130a) WM: [indecipherable; trimmed]

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