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Print (Framed Engraving) S. le Clerc, 'The Academy of Arts and Sciences', by B. Smith, Printed for T. Jefferys and W. Herbert, London, ?18th Century

Inventory Number 63544


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.63544

Item type
Object
Primary inscriptions
Printed for T. Jefferys at the corner of St Martin's Lane in the Strand, and W. Herbert at the Golden Globe on London Bridge.
Physical technique
Engraving
Object type
Print
Inventory No
63544

Description

Illustrates activities that took place in two seventeenth-century Paris academies: painting and sculpture at the Académie de peinture et de sculpture, and astronomy, botany, zoology and mechanics at the Académie des sciences.