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Armand Guerinet Architectural Heliogravure of the Prix de Rome Design for Un Athenee by Mariaud - This framed architectural print is a heliogravure based on the 1877 Prix de Rome winning design for Un Athenee by the architect Mariaud. The composition is divided into two registers: the upper portion displays a detailed longitudinal section showing the interior volumes of the proposed building, including a central domed hall and a greenhouse or palm house with visible interior foliage; the lower portion features the primary facade elevation of the neoclassical structure. The work is printed on paper and exhibits the precise, fine-line quality characteristic of the heliogravure process.The print bears several legible inscriptions. Centered at the top is the series title LES GRANDS PRIX DE ROME D'ARCHITECTURE. The upper right corner is marked Pl. 180-181. Below the main elevation in the lower center, the text reads 1877. - MARIAUD. - Un Athenee. The lower right margin contains a publisher's credit: ARMAND GUERINET, EDITEUR, 140, FAUBOURG SAINT-MARTIN, PARIS. The lower left margin identifies the printer: HELIOGRAVURE E. LE DELEY, PARIS. The work is housed in a dark wood-tone frame with a gilded rope-twist inner border, set within a sage-green mat. The verso features a brown paper dust cover and a white adhesive label at the top center reading Chelsea House GASTONIA, N.C. with the handwritten numbers 914 over B.Frame width: 29.5 inchesFrame height: 20.25 inches.