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1920

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2016

2025

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Album, Album of Prints: Ornaments, Cartouches, and Frames by Cuvilliés père

This is a Album. It was designed by François de Cuvilliés and François de Cuvilliés the Elder and print maker: Franz Xaver Andreas Jungwierth, Carl Albert von Lespilliez and Balthazar Sigismond Setlezky and published by François de Cuvilliés the Elder. It is dated 1738 and we acquired it in 1920. 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

H x W: 35.3 × 24.2 cm (13 7/8 × 9 1/2 in.)

It has the following markings

Léon Decloux Ex Libris, printed on paper, pasted to the middle of the paste down endpaper of the upper cover.

It is inscribed

Inscribed in red ink, upper left: No. 78. / f.33 / R.22 [No. 787 crossed out in red ink]; Inscribed in black ink, upper center-right: C.H. B.g. BB. M. 75 [...] / [illegible]; Inscribed in red ink in center of Léon Decloux Ex Libris: No. 78.

Cite this object as

Album, Album of Prints: Ornaments, Cartouches, and Frames by Cuvilliés père ; Designed by François de Cuvilliés the younger (German, 1731 - 1777), François de Cuvilliés the Elder (Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768); Print Maker: Franz Xaver Andreas Jungwierth (German, 1720–1790), Carl Albert von Lespilliez (German, 1723 - 1796), Balthazar Sigismond Setlezky (German, 1695 - 1774); H x W: 35.3 × 24.2 cm (13 7/8 × 9 1/2 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-281

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