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Creative Commons License
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The Pierrot of the Minute
(Manuscripts and Rare Books)
In his 1887 guidebook Historical and Bibliographical Manual for Collectors of Bookbindings, Léon Gruel described and illustrated a 1766 binding by Robert-Jean Bailly. He then produced an exact copy, seen here. The leather cover has been cut away to reveal a rich underlayer of rose-colored silk. The same silk is used for the endpapers inside.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
Owned by Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1931; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 2013-2014 | Bookbindings from the Gilded Age. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
Geographies
USA, New York, New York (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 7 3/16 × W: 4 1/2 in. (18.26 × 11.43 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, before 1931
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
92.1232