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Print, Design for Wainscoting with a Mirror
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: 35.5 x 22.9 cm (14 x 9 in.) Sheet: 44 x 28.6 cm (17 5/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
It is inscribed
Printed upper center, in plate: C.P.S.C.M. / Decoration de Lambris pour un Cabinet, oû il y a un Canapé audessous de la Glace.; Printed upper right, in plate: Q; Printed lower center, in plate: C.P.R.; Printed lower right, in plate: 2; Inscribed in graphite, lower center, in margin: 82
Cite this object as
Print, Design for Wainscoting with a Mirror; 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: 35.5 x 22.9 cm (14 x 9 in.) Sheet: 44 x 28.6 cm (17 5/16 x 11 1/4 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-285-83
