<i>Cabinet Geometrique de Mr le Clerc</i>
notes: label: Description
content: This engraving depicts a large room containing an assortment of mathematical, optical, philosophical, and musical instruments. In one corner of the room, a group of men sit at and stand around a table, deep in discussion.While the title reads "Cabinet Geometrique de Mr. le Clerc," the image represents the cabinet of the Académie des Sciences, which moved to the Louvre in 1699. The image was created in Paris in 1711-1712 by Sebastien le Clerc (1637-1714), an engraver, engineer, and professor of perspective. The text at bottom of this example—“A Paris chez J. Chereau rue St Jacques au desous de la Fontaine St Severin aux 2 Colonnes No 267”—refers to Jacques Chereau, an engraver and print seller in Paris who sold the engraving later in the century.
label: Description
content: Ref: Charles Antoine Jombert, <i>Catalogue Raisonée de l’Œuvre de Sebastien le Clerc</i> (Paris, 1774), vol. 2, pp. 266-267.
label: Description
content: E. C. Watson, “The Early Days of the Académie des Sciences,” <i>Osiris</i> 7 (1939): 556-587.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Prints from the Physical Sciences Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.318288
label: catalog number
content: 318288
label: accession number
content: 233574
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 14 1/2 in; 25.4 cm x 36.83 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: frame: 17 in x 22 in x 3/4 in; 43.18 cm x 55.88 cm x 1.905 cm