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Paris. The Catacombs of Paris.

Maker

(artist)
1774-1827

(publisher)

Title

Paris. The Catacombs of Paris.

Date of Production

1820

Medium

Ink on paper

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.5154.16

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

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Inscriptions

recto: full page of text: PARIS. / THE CATACOMBS OF PARIS. / THE Catacombs of Paris were originally mere quarries, from where stones / [...]

verso: full page of text: PARIS. / than that of the other. A visitor is supposed to have wandered out of the regular / [...]

verso: lower left, graphite: G.1990.WL.5154.16

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