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Print, REPRESENTATION DES PRINCIPALES, FAÇADE, ENTRÉE, COUR, ET DE TOUT L’EDIFICE DU PALAIS EPISCOPAL, EN LE VILLE DE STRASBOURG

This is a Print. It was designed by Johann Martin Weis and print maker: Jacques-Philippe Le Bas. It is dated 1745 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching and engraving on 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

Sheet: 62.4 × 89.5 cm (24 9/16 × 35 1/4 in.) Platemark: 44.6 × 76.4 cm (17 9/16 × 30 1/16 in.) Image: 43 × 73.2 cm (16 15/16 × 28 13/16 in.)

It is signed

Lettered in plate, lower left: Inventé dessiné et dirigé par J.M. Weis Graveur de la Ville de Strasbourg; lower right: Gravé par J. Ph. Le Bas Graveur du Cabinet du Roy.

It is inscribed

Lettered in plate, lower center : REPRESENTATION DES PRINCIPALES, FAÇADE, ENTRÉE, COUR, ET DE TOUT L’EDIFICE DU PALAIS EPISCOPAL, EN LE VILLE DE STRASBOURG / Et de la Place au devant de ce Palais: ensemble de l’Illumination entiere qui ya eté entretenüe, le 5. Octobre 1744. jour de l’arrivée et à chaque soirée du sejour de Sa Majesté LOUIS XV. en la dite Ville.; numbered upper right : No. 8

Cite this object as

Print, REPRESENTATION DES PRINCIPALES, FAÇADE, ENTRÉE, COUR, ET DE TOUT L’EDIFICE DU PALAIS EPISCOPAL, EN LE VILLE DE STRASBOURG; Designed by Johann Martin Weis (French, 1711 - 1751); Print Maker: Jacques-Philippe Le Bas (French, 1707–83); France; etching and engraving on paper; Sheet: 62.4 × 89.5 cm (24 9/16 × 35 1/4 in.) Platemark: 44.6 × 76.4 cm (17 9/16 × 30 1/16 in.) Image: 43 × 73.2 cm (16 15/16 × 28 13/16 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-208-10

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