Musee - museum / RMS. – Vintage Print
![Musee - museum / RMS., London : Benn Brothers Ltd., [1922] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ba/baab01352e43-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This antique lithograph of Musee - museum / RMS. brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Musee - museum / RMS.
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This lithograph shows a design for a museum, presented as a single plate within a larger set of drawings for an imagined modern city. The plate is printed in color and was published by Benn Brothers in London around 1922, in the portfolio *A Modern City* by the French architect Rob Mallet-Stevens. Its interest lies in how it turns a traditional cultural building into a clean, geometric form that fits a planned urban setting. Like many architectural visions of the 1920s, it reflects the period's enthusiasm for modern materials, simplified shapes, and city planning.
| Created / published | London : Benn Brothers Ltd., [1922] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Architectural drawings 1920-1930.Lithographs Color 1920-1930. |
| Notes | Illus. in: A Modern city / designs by Rob Mallet-Stevens, architect, pl. 3. |
| Subjects | Galleries & museums--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,450 × 1,172 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216680 |
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