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Gateway to the Abbey of St Martin of Auchi in Aumale (France)

Printer Godefroy Engelmann German
1822
Not on view
Louis Jean Marie Atthalin was a French officer in the Napoleonic Wars, a Knight of the Legion d'Honneur and Grand Cross, and printmaker. This print is part of a series of lithographs produced in the 1820s in collaboration with Taylor and Nodier's 'Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l'ancienne France'.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Gateway to the Abbey of St Martin of Auchi in Aumale (France)
  • Series/Portfolio: Voyages pittoresques et romantiques...Normandie, II (1822-1824)
  • Artist: Louis Marie Jean Baptiste Athalin (French, 1784–1856)
  • Printer: Godefroy Engelmann (German (born France), Mulhouse 1788–1839 Mulhouse)
  • Date: 1822
  • Medium: Lithograph
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 12 11/16 × 9 1/2 in. (32.3 × 24.2 cm)
    Image: 9 3/4 × 7 5/16 in. (24.8 × 18.6 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
  • Object Number: 59.500.638
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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