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Print, Design for Two Panels of Ornament
This is a Print. It was designed by François de Cuvilliés the Elder and print maker: Karl Albert von Lespilliez and published by Nicolas Jean Baptiste de Poilly. It is dated 1745 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching and engraving on off-white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This object was
donated by
Advisory Council.
It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
- Print, Ornamental Design
- engraving on paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
- 1944-76-1
Its dimensions are
Platemark: 36.1 x 24 cm (14 3/16 x 9 7/16 in.) Sheet: 44 x 28.6 cm (17 5/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
It is signed
Lettered lower left, in plate: Inventé par F. de Cuvilliés .; Lettered lower right, in plate: gravé par C.A. de Lespilliez .
It is inscribed
On plate, upper right: C; lower left: Inventé par F. de Cuvilliés; lower center: C.P.S.C.M.; lower right: gravé par C.A. de Lespilliez/5
Cite this object as
Print, Design for Two Panels of Ornament; Designed by François de Cuvilliés the Elder (Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768); Print Maker: Karl Albert von Lespilliez (1723–1796); Published by Nicolas Jean Baptiste de Poilly (France, 1712 – ca. 1758); Germany; etching and engraving on off-white laid paper; Platemark: 36.1 x 24 cm (14 3/16 x 9 7/16 in.) Sheet: 44 x 28.6 cm (17 5/16 x 11 1/4 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-285-18
