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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

L'Histoire naturelle éclaircie dans une de ses parties principales, la Conchyliologie, qui traite des coquillages de mer, de rivière et de terre

Quentin Pierre Chedel|François Boucher|Antoine Joseph Dézallier d'Argenville

1757

Attribution
| | Quentin Pierre Chedel|François Boucher|Antoine Joseph Dézallier d'Argenville | | French, Châlons-en-Champagne 1705–1763 Châlons-en-Champagne| |French, Paris 1680–1765 Paris
Medium
Two volumes in one, quarto; engraved frontispiece and 40 engraved plates with contemporary watercolor, sections with engraved headpieces, text ruled in red throughout
Physical dimensions
11 1/4 × 8 1/4 in. (28.6 × 21 cm)
Credit line
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2023
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