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JMMontpelier

It's Leo Season!🦁
Many of our guests are familiar with the garden lion statues, but have you seen this hand-colored print?

In 1786, wrote about the likelihood of purchasing a set of engravings by French naturalist Comte de Buffon, "I have thought that the cuts of the Quadrupeds in Buffon, if arranged in frames, would make both an agreeable & instructive piece of wall furniture."

"Le Lion," MF2011.80.7
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