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1920

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2016

2025

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Album, Album of Prints: Designs by François de Cuvilliés as well as other German Artists

This is a Album. It was designed by Franz Joachim Beich, Michael Hartwagner, Giovanni Paolo Gaspari, François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Thomas Christian Winck, Bartholomäus Ignaz Weiss and Franz Ignaz Oefele and print maker: Valerian Funck, Georg Siegmond Roesch, Johann Nepomuk Maag, Thomas Christian Winck, Bartholomäus Ignaz Weiss, François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Franz Xaver Andreas Jungwierth, Michael Hartwagner and Franz Ignaz Oefele and published by Nicolas Jean Baptiste de Poilly. 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.

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 in center of Léon Decloux Ex Libris: No. 81.

Cite this object as

Album, Album of Prints: Designs by François de Cuvilliés as well as other German Artists; Designed by François de Cuvilliés the Elder (Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768), Giovanni Paolo Gaspari (1714 – 1775), Franz Joachim Beich (German, 1665–1748), Michael Hartwagner (German, d. 1776), Thomas Christian Winck (German, 1738–1797), Bartholomäus Ignaz Weiss (German, c. 1740–1814), Franz Ignaz Oefele (German, 1721–1797); Print Maker: Georg Siegmond Roesch, Valerian Funck, Johann Nepomuk Maag, Franz Xaver Andreas Jungwierth (German, 1720–1790); Published by Nicolas Jean Baptiste de Poilly (France, 1712 – ca. 1758); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-285

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