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Le Bon Genre: Observations sur les modes et les usages de Paris

1827
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Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Le Bon Genre: Observations sur les modes et les usages de Paris
  • Publisher: La Messangère , Paris
  • Printer: Vassal et Essling , Paris
  • Engraver: Georges Jacques Gatine (French, Caen, ca. 1773–after 1841)
  • Engraver: Louis-Marie Lanté (French, 1789–1839 or after)
  • Designer: Horace Vernet (French, Paris 1789–1863 Paris)
  • Designer: Jean-Baptiste Isabey (French, Nancy 1767–1855 Paris)
  • Published in: Paris
  • Date: 1827
  • Medium: plates: color engravings
  • Dimensions: Overall: 16 5/16 x 11 1/4 x 1 9/16 in. (41.5 x 28.5 x 4 cm)
  • Classification: Books
  • Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938
  • Object Number: 38.38.5
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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