Print, Design for Cartouche

This is a Print. It was designed by François de Cuvilliés the Elder and print maker: Georg Siegmond Roesch 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.

Its dimensions are

Platemark: 35.5 x 23.6 cm (14 x 9 5/16 in.) Sheet: 44 x 28.6 cm (17 5/16 x 11 1/4 in.)

It is inscribed

Printed upper center, in plate: Ir. Livre / C.P.S.C.M.; Printed upper right, in plate: A; Printed center, in plate: Morceaux de Caprice / A divers usages. / Inventé par François / de Cuvilliés Conseiller / et Architecte de Sa / Majesté Imperialle / se vend chez Lauteur / gravé par Georg Sig / Roesch.; Printed lower center, in plate: Se vend aussi a Paris chez le Sr. Poilly ruë St. Iacque a limage St. Benoit Avec Privilege du Roy; Printed lower right, in plate: 1

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