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Document identity
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118049
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The Optical Viewer
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print
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1
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118049
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print
title
The Optical Viewer
date
c. 1794
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
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Q80012776
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28907
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Print
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 65 x 47.2 cm (25 9/16 x 18 9/16 in.)
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France, 19th century
accession
1939.171
Source extras
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etching and engraving hand colored with watercolor
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The Optical Viewer, c. 1794. Frédéric Cazenave (French, active 1793–1843), after Louis Léopold Boilly (French, 1761–1845). Etching and engraving hand colored with watercolor; overall: 65 x 47.2 cm (25 9/16 x 18 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., for the Coralie Walker Hanna Memorial Collection, 1939.171
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PR - Etching
inscriptions
inscription
below border, lower left: Peint par L. Boilly; below border, lower right: Gravé par F. Cazenave.; in margin: L'Optique.; bottom center: A Paris chez L'Auteur, Rue Jacques N°. 13 en face de la rue de la Parcheminierie./ Imprimé par Finot
citations
citation
Milliken, William. "The Coralie Walker Hanna Memorial Collection Gift of Leonard C Hanna." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>26, no. 6 (June 1939): 84-115
page_number
Mentioned: p. 112
catalogueRaisonne
Por.&Ber. I (part I) p. 346
creditline
Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., for the Coralie Walker Hanna Memorial Collection
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2026-05-29 06:06:35.944000
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118049
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Prints
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PR - Etching
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etching and engraving hand colored with watercolor
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male
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