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Print, Elevation and Plan of a Carriage Entrance
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: 35.7 x 23.2 cm (14 1/16 x 9 1/8 in.) Sheet: 44 x 28.6 cm (17 5/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
It is inscribed
Printed upper left, in plate: 15me. Livre; Printed upper center, in plate: C.P.S.C.M.; Printed upper right, in plate: P; Printed lower center, in plate: Livre de Portes Cocheres, nouvellement jnventé par le Sr. de Cuvilliés. / premier Architecte de S.A.S.E. de Baviere. Gravé par C.A. de Lespilliez.; Printed lower center, in plate: Se vend a Paris chez le Sr. Poilly ruë St. Iacque a L'jmage St. Benoit, Avec Privilege du Roy. Et chez lauteur.; Printed lower right, in plate: 1; Inscribed in graphite, lower center, in margin: 75
Cite this object as
Print, Elevation and Plan of a Carriage Entrance; 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: 35.7 x 23.2 cm (14 1/16 x 9 1/8 in.) Sheet: 44 x 28.6 cm (17 5/16 x 11 1/4 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-285-76
