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Quaestio theologica: Quis de tenebris nos vocavit in admirabile lumen suum? I. Petrus, 3.9.
1769
Large double-sheet engraved broadside, upper sheet with engraving, lower sheet with engraved cartouche containing letterpress text. An imposing two-sheet illustrated broadside announcing the defense of a doctoral dissertation at the Faculty of Theology of the Sorbonne. This huge thesis print was designed by the prolific Paris artist François Boucher and published by a printmaker who specialized in the production of thesis prints. Copies would have been posted on a wall of the Sorbonne to announce the candidate's public defense of his thesis.The engravings could be used interchangeably for different thesis broadsides.
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- Publisher
- Paris : Robert Hecquet, 1769.
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- Author
- Maillard, Augustin
- Related Name
- Université de Paris. Faculté de théologie
- Language
- Latin
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