Print, Design for a Cartouche with Vignette

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: 35.8 x 23.2 cm (14 1/8 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: F.de Cuvilliés Inv.; Lettered lower right, in plate: Gravé par C.A.de Lespilliez

It is inscribed

Printed upper center, in plate: C.P.S.C.M.; Printed upper right, in plate: O; Printed lower center, in plate: A Paris chez le Sr. Poilly ruë St. Iacque C.P.R.; Printed lower right, in plate: 3; Inscribed in graphite, lower center, in margin: 73

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