  We report BVR surface photometry of a lenticular galaxy, NGC4753 with
prominent dust lanes. We have used the multicolor broadband photometry to study
dust-extinction as a function of wavelength and derived the extinction curve.
We find the extinction curve of NGC 4753 to be similar to the Galactic
extinction curve in the visible region which implies that the sizes of dust
grains responsible for optical extinction are similar to those in our Galaxy.
We derive dust mass from optical extinction as well as from the far infrared
fluxes observed with IRAS. The ratio of the two dust masses,
$\frac{M_{d,IRAS}}{M_{d,optical}}$, is 2.28 for NGC 4753, which is
significantly lower than the value of 8.4 \pm 1.3 found previously for a large
sample of elliptical galaxies. The total mass of the observed dust within
NGC4753 is about a factor of 10 higher than the mass of dust expected from loss
of mass from red giant stars and destruction by sputtering and grain-grain
collisions in low velocity shocks, and sputtering in supernova driven blast
waves. We find evidence for the coexistence of dust and H$\alpha$ emitting gas
within NGC4753. The current star formation rate of NGC4753, averaged over past
$2\times10^{6} yr$, is estimated to be less than $0.21M_{\sun}yr^{-1}$. A
substantial amount of dust within NGC4753 exists in the form of cirrus.
