Print, Design for Upper Part of a Mirror and Chimney Piece

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.

Its dimensions are

Platemark: 35.6 x 23.1 cm (14 x 9 1/8 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 Cuvillies; Lettered lower right, in plate: gravé par C.A.de Lespilliez

It is inscribed

Printed upper center, in plate: Dessein d'un grand Chambranle de Cheminée; Ioint à celuij de son Couronnement.; Printed upper right, in plate: L; Printed center, in plate: Ce dessin ne fait voir que le haut, ét le bas de la Glace; on la feroit proprotionnée a sa largeur.; Printed lower left, plate: Le chambranle de cette Cheminée, ést / suppose être de marbre; ét les figures / chinoises, ét autres de bronse dorez.; Printed lower center, in plate: C.P.S.C.M.; Printed lower right, in plate: Plan de la Tablette. / 3.; Inscribed in graphite, lower center, in margin: 60

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