Print, Design for Two Console Tables, Elevations and Plans

This is a Print. It was designed by François de Cuvilliés the Elder and engraved by Karl Albert von Lespilliez and published by Nicolas Jean Baptiste de Poilly and François de Cuvilliés. 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: 35.8 x 23.5 cm (14 1/8 x 9 1/4 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

Printed upper center, in plate: 5me. Livre / Livre de pieds de Tables de diferents desseins, dont les Plans des / Tablettes de marbre, sont marquez au dessous des dts.Tables. Nouvellemt. / inventées par François de Cuvilliés Architecte de Sa Majesté Imperialle.; Printed upper right, in plate: E; Printed center, in plate: Plan de la Tablette de marbre, qui fait / la Couronement de la Table Sy dessus.; 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, et chez lauteur / C.P.S.C.M.; Printed lower right, in plate: 1.; Inscribed in graphite, lower center, in margin: 26

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